Teamsters Canada

Arbitrator tabbed for CPKC-TCRC rail contract talks

There is progress in contract negotiations between Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and its largest union.

Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has appointed William Kaplan as the arbitrator in its collective bargaining with Canadian Pacific Kansas City (NYSE: CP).

Kaplan is also serving as arbitrator for the TCRC’s contract negotiations with Canadian National, the union said in a news release Thursday. 

A schedule has not been set for mediation.

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Impact minimal from Canada rail shutdown 

In Canada, railroad union contract talks and trains came to a near-simultaneous halt, but shippers and logistics executives said the recovery has been almost as swift.

“The work stoppage situation was resolved so quickly, we are not seeing much impact on the recovery,” Shelli Austin, president, InTek Freight & Logistics, based in Indianapolis, said in an email to FreightWaves. “We actually saw more impact on the pro-active planning leading up to the work stoppage.”

The Canada Industrial Relations...

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Railroads, unions trade charges as shutdown begins

Canada’s largest railroads, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, early Thursday locked out 9,300 union employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), shutting down the country’s rail network in a move that is expected to disrupt supply chains across North America.  

The lockout of train crews and control personnel at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Thursday had been expected after no progress was reported in contract bargaining with federal mediators that ran late...

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Trudeau urges more talks as US railroads brace for Canada rail shutdown

Shippers on both sides of the cross-border supply chain are bracing for an unprecedented shutdown of Canada’s largest rail networks that could disrupt freight traffic, including peak season intermodal shipments and the critical fall grain harvest.

The contract dispute covers a combined 9,300 union employees ranging from train crews to dispatchers at Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), the country’s largest railroads. Employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail...

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Teamsters Canada Rail Conference members reauthorize strikes against CN, CPKC

This story originally appeared on Trains.com

LAVAL, Quebec — Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have voted to reauthorize strikes at CPKC and CN, the union announced Saturday.

Overall, 89.5% of union members participated in the vote, with 98.6% voting to reauthorize the strike, the union said. At CN, conductors, engineers and yard workers voted 98.4% to authorize the strike, with a 90.1% turnout. At CPKC, that same group voted 99.2% in favor of reauthorization, with an 88.6% turnout....

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Canadian trucking officials call for end to Driver Inc. ‘scam’

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A group of officials representing Canada’s trucking industry held a joint news conference in Ottawa...

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Union members at Canadian Pacific could go on strike March 16

A photograph of a Canadian Pacific train traveling through a grassy field.

Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) voted 96.7% to go on strike starting just after midnight EST on March 16 should talks fail between both parties, according to a release. The potential strike would affect more than 3,000 locomotive engineers, conductors, trainpersons and yardpersons working at CP (NYSE: CP).

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service will hold mediation meetings with the union and CP between March 11 and 16.

The union says the main issues include wages,...

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Did TFI CEO extend olive branch to Teamsters before UPS Freight deal?

A UPS employee loads boxes. Thousands of UPS employees, represented by the Teamsters, will join TFI International as part of the acquisition of UPS Freight.

Three months before TFI International (NYSE:TFII) announced the acquisition of UPS’ (NYSE:UPS) freight business, CEO Alain Bedard expressed a willingness to buy a unionized less-than-truckload operation and lauded the performance of the parcel giant with the Teamsters – and his own company’s experience with organized labor in Canada.

“If you look at the largest trucking company in the world, they’re unionized with the Teamsters and they do a fantastic job,” Bedard told financial analysts in...

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