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Large scale rail engineering projects will keep some lines closed, and train strikes resume on New Year’s Eve – halting most intercity trains on the West Coast main line.
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 ...
Rail strikes are back with a vengeance. Passengers on Avanti West Coast face months of disruption. Walk-outs began on 31 December and are set to continue until the late May bank holiday weekend.
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 Thursday along ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
On March 5, the rail blockades in Kahnawake and the Gaspé Peninsula were removed peacefully by the First Nations involved. [118] In early March, Canada's medical officer had advised against gatherings, as part of the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and by the second week of March, most blockades had come down. Despite the ...
⚠️ 1/2 There will be significant disruption across the country tomorrow, due to the reopening of Network Rail signal boxes at different times throughout the day, following today's strike ...
Salt Lake City, Utah – December 1, 1938 – 23 children killed when a blizzard obscured an oncoming train at a crossing in Salt Lake County in what is now South Jordan. Spring City, Tennessee - August 27, 1955, 11 killed, 36 injured - A 100-car train struck the rear of a Spring City Elementary School bus as it crossed the tracks.