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CN Receives Arbitration Decision

More than seven months after the Canadian Industrial Relations Board’s (CIRB) order imposing binding arbitration between CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), the railroad is reporting the arbitrator’s decision regarding terms of a new collective…
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For CN, TCRC, a Collective Agreement in Sight

Two months after the Canadian Industrial Relations Board’s (CIRB) order imposing binding arbitration between CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), CN is reporting that both parties have recently…
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ITS Logistics: Potential ILA Strike Fuels Peak-Season ‘Uncertainty’

Potential labor disruptions at U.S. East and Gulf coast ports, which handle billions of dollars in trade monthly and about 43% of all U.S. imports, plus “heavy pre-tariff shipping” pending…
Commentary

There Will Always be a Settlement—at Some Point

FINANCIAL EDGE, RAILWAY AGE SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE: Nothing warms a jaded rail equipment columnist more than having an article planned out only to see the headlines grabbed by something so…
U.S. agriculture that could be impacted by a Canadian rail shutdown includes soybeans that are loaded into unit trains in Garrison, N.D., and ferried across southern Canada before hand-off to UP at Eastport, Idaho, for final delivery to an export terminal in Kalama, Wash. Bruce Kelly photo.

Is the Canadian Rail Shutdown Really Over? Yes (At Least for Now). (UPDATED 9/3)

CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) on Aug. 24 each reported receiving an order imposing binding arbitration between the railroad and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) from the…
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RailState: Rail Service Resuming in Canada

Where does freight rail service stand following the Canadian government’s Aug. 24 order for binding arbitration that has allowed its resumption at CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)? On…
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Canadian Class I’s, TCRC Bargaining Updates (8/6)

Separate negotiations with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) have been under way at intervals for CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), with the assistance of federal conciliators. Those…
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CN Issues 2024-25 Grain Plan

CN on July 31 published its 2024-25 Grain Plan, an action plan required by the government of Canada to meet the volume of grain expected to move this crop year.
Photos Courtesy of Pascale Simard/Alpha Presse (left) and CPKC (right).

USW Ratifies New Collective Agreement; Teamsters Vote to Authorize Strikes (UPDATED, 5/3)

The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2004 ratifies a new three-year collective agreement with CN. Meanwhile, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) votes to authorize strikes at CN and Canadian Pacific…
Photograph Courtesy of CN, via Twitter

CN, TCRC Ratify Collective Agreement

CN announced May 26 that the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents approximately 6,000 locomotive engineers, conductors, yard conductors, and yard coordinators working on the railroad’s mainline, short lines…
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TCRC, Alstom Reach Tentative Agreement for GO Trains

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) and Alstom, operator of GO Transit regional/commuter rail service in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, have reached a tentative agreement for more than…
BNSF’s second-annual awards program recognizing customers for significant achievement in sustainability is now open for nominations.

Class I Briefs: BNSF, CN, CPKC, CSX, CPKC/NS/UP

BNSF opens nominations for its 2023 sustainability awards program. Also, CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) reach a tentative agreement; Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) celebrates its hydrogen…
Photograph Courtesy of CN, via Twitter

TCRC Ratifies New CN Agreement

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) on Dec. 23 ratified a new collective agreement with CN, covering approximately 160 rail traffic controllers in Canada, the Class I announced Jan. 3.…
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