The Canadian government is imposing binding arbitration to end work stoppages that have dragged on at ports in British Columbia and Montreal. Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon announced Tuesday morning that he is directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the resumption of all operations at the ports, and to assist in imposing final and… Read More

Over six hundred workers at the six main grain export terminals in Vancouver are returning to work as of Saturday, September 28. Their four day strike, which nearly halted grain shipments through Western Canada’s largest port, came to an end late Friday, as the Grain Workers Union Local 333 agreed to a tentative four-year deal… Read More

More than nine thousand railway workers at both of Canada’s main railways — Canadian National Railway (CP) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway (CPKC) — are returning to work after the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) decided to uphold the federal labour minister’s order to impose final and binding arbitration to reach new collective bargaining… Read More

Update, as of 11:30am eastern, August 23: After announcing early Friday morning that CN Rail workers were taking down picket lines and returning to work, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has served 72-hour strike notice to CN, as of 10am, Friday, August 23. This means around 6,500 CN workers, who were locked out on August… Read More

The final countdown is on toward an unprecedented rail system shutdown across Canada later this week. As of Sunday, both of Canada’s main railways — CN and CPKC — have formally issued notice to the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference that they will be locking out over nine thousand TCRC-represented employees on Thursday, August 22 at… Read More

About 80 per cent of farmers in Western Canada are concerned about the impacts of a rail strike and just over 55 per cent of Ontario farmers feel the same, according to the late July Canadian Farmer Sentiment Index. I, for one, am a little surprised the number isn’t higher, but the survey was sent… Read More