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CP Negotiations Updates
Official TCRC updates in relation to the
negotiations with Canadian Pacific Railway will be posted on this
General Committee website as soon as they are available.
Bulletin No. 12 |
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CP
Rail vote Thursday could change the face of historic railroad
CALGARY—A bitter five-month proxy fight at Canadian
Pacific Railway comes to a head here Thursday, with a historic
boardroom shakeup likely, and some of Canada’s business elite left
in the dust.
TCRC - CP Negotiation Bulletin No. 12
Your Bargaining Committee, which includes Sisters Shelly
Brownlee and Kari Essery of the TCRC-RCTC General Committee, met
with the Company in the presence of Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Services (FMCS) in Toronto commencing May 7.
Strike vote at CP Rail
The members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference
voted by a margin of 95 % in favour of a strike at CP Rail.
Tories mull privatizing VIA Rail routes
The documents point out that the Rocky Mountaineer
service was actually created and run at a profit by VIA for two
years starting in 1988 before it was privatized in 1990 under a deal
that allowed VIA to continue operating on the same line.
Day
of Mourning Statement
Tragically, thousands of workers, every year, have their life
changed because of a major injury while hundreds more lose their
life because of their work. No job is worth dying for, yet 1,014
people lost their lives in 2010, the most recent year for which we
have statistics.
Will Ontario go to the polls over Ontario Northland?
Horwath said the closure of the ONTC will impact
1,000 employees while leaving communities, worksites and industry
without transportation services.
The sorry
state of our unions
“There's been a change in the paradigm,” says Mr.
Georgetti. “People used to aspire to belong to a union to get the
benefits and be well off. Now the aspiration is, ‘I'd be happy to
take those benefits away from someone because I don't have them.'”
In memory of our fallen Brothers
It is with profound sadness and disbelief to have to
inform you all of the sudden and tragic passing of three fellow
Brothers of TCRC Division 747.
Via Rail train was changing track before derailment
The train was crossing over from one track to another as one
was being worked on by a crew, said Rex Beatty, the president of the
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, told CBC News on Monday.
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