CN Talks Off the Rails

Saturday, April 14, 2007 05:42 PM

CN and the negotiatiors for the United Transportation Union met for five hours today, but no deal and no progress.

Earlier this week, CN locked out UTU members at various terminals in Canada where union members had withdrawn their services following the rejection of the tentative agreement.

The UTU represents 2,800 conductors and yard-service employees at CN in Canada.

CN says it is available for further discussions but no future meeting dates have been scheduled.

Meantime, Federal Minister of Natural Resources, Gary Lunn, advised forest industry reps on Friday that a strike will not last long. He told the COFI convention delegates the Federal government acted before, and will act again "swiftly and decisively" as the Federal Government will not let the national economy suffer.

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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 05:42 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: charles on April 14 2007 8:06 PM

It seems to me that with the (real) inflation rate in this country going up at an alarming rate, we can expect a lot more strikes and labor disruptions. The organized unions are the lucky ones in this regard. They have more "leverage" in getting wage increases (to keep up with the increased cost of living) than non-union workers do.

Posted by: Mcfly on April 15 2007 5:51 AM

Maybe try keeping the trains on the tracks, and not in rivers, or over banks, or just generally dumped off the rails for a while.
Possibly then the employees will get a raise.
Seems in my opinion, that they are not doing a great job considering all the derailments, and thus why reward them with hefty raises etc.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on April 15 2007 7:57 AM

Oh Mcfly, it's the running dog capitalist that run the trains off the tracks. Same thing as the sinking of that ferry. Isn't it time for a ferry strike again? It is just about summer tourist season, and unions pick the best time to hurt people! That what unions do, not run trains off tracks.

Posted by: lmorg on April 15 2007 10:00 AM

CN is in big trouble financially. Just because they said they'd build the dry container port here in PG, don't think they won't pull the pin.

Posted by: Gofaster on April 15 2007 2:35 PM

Our wonderful government will legislate the end to this rather quickly... I think they find that easier than bargaining in good faith.....they did it once before...so...the only question is which government will jump first...the BC or Canadian...