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UPDATE ― 6:36 p.m. EDT Thursday: The Canadian government announced Thursday afternoon it was ending the work stoppage by ordering the railroads and the union into binding arbitration. Previously:
The most recent work stoppage in the industry was a 60-hour strike at Canadian Pacific in 2022. Before that, there was a nine-day strike at CN in 2019. This story has been updated with additional ...
Nearly all of Canada’s freight handled by rail — worth more than $1 billion Canadian (US$730 million) a day and adding up to more than 375 million tons of freight last year — stopped ...
The 2024 Canada railway dispute was a labour-business dispute between the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference that shut down the freight railway operations of both railway companies. The shutdown also included passenger trains operating on CPKC tracks, but not ...
The looming strike is the latest twist in a labor dispute at Canada's top two railroads, which locked out more than 9,000 unionized workers on Thursday, triggering a simultaneous rail stoppage ...
The strike negatively impacted Black Friday sales, with many small businesses unable to ship orders during their peak season. [26] The Canadian Federation of Independent Business reported the strike had cost small and medium-sized businesses $1.6 billion by December 13, and that 73% of small businesses intended to reduce usage of Canada Post. [27]
PSAC strikers outside a CRA office in Surrey, British Columbia. On April 7, the CRA bargaining group voted to enter a legal strike position. [21] On April 12, the national president of PSAC, Chris Aylward, announced that the Treasury Board bargaining unit had voted overwhelmingly in favour of entering into a legal strike position, thus granting the group a 60-day window to initiate a labour ...
The Canadian and U.S. economies are highly integrated. Rail transport accounted for 14% of total bilateral trade of $382.4 billion between the countries for the first half of the year, according ...