Machinery

A back-to-work rule making its way through the British Columbia legislature will be scrapped after container truckers serving Port Metro Vancouver reached an agreement Wednesday to end their work stoppage. Unionized truckers, represented by Unifor, and non-union members of the United Truckers Association are to resume “full operations” at PMV on Thursday, the province said […] Read more

Mandatory extension of rail car interswitching and tighter grain freight regulations may “placate a vocal constituency” but will do little to move more grain and may harm Canadian businesses, Canadian National Railway (CN) warns. The federal government on Wednesday introduced a package of legislative amendments promising increased regulatory oversight for rail grain freight and new […] Read more

Canada’s big two railways, under mandatory federal performance targets for grain freight, are now flooding the West Coast and Thunder Bay with grain, the Western Grain Elevator Association warns. Prairie grain elevator companies can handle the 11,000 cars a week the federal government has ordered the railways to move — but some of those cars […] Read more

Legislation to buy Port Metro Vancouver 90 days of labour peace with its unionized container truckers has gone through first reading in British Columbia’s legislature. Provincial Labour Minister Shirley Bond on Monday introduced Bill 25, the Port Metro Vancouver Container Trucking Services Continuation Act, imposing a 90-day “cooling-off” period for 250 striking container truckers represented […] Read more

Having voted down two negotiated deals in the past six months, unionized conductors, trainmen and yardmen with Canadian National Railway (CN) have agreed to go to binding arbitration with the company if need be. CN on Saturday said the workers have agreed to a “last chance” offer to enter negotiations for a contract settlement, “on […] Read more