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Undated photo of a Canada Post truck on a Prairie road. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) announced a national strike effective Nov. 15, 2024 starting at 12:01 a.m. ET.

Find your ag news during the mail strike

Glacier FarmMedia making digital editions readily available to readers

By Grainews Staff November 15, 2024

With the arrival of a national mail strike, Grainews wants to ensure our readers continue to have access to the information they want and need. “We are doing everything we can to make sure Canadian farmers can continue to access their agricultural news and production information during the mail service disruption,” said Laura Rance-Unger, Glacier […] Read more

A freighter is loaded with grain from a terminal at Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)

News, Reuters

Vancouver port employer could shut out foremen, grain will not be hit

By Ed White, Reuters November 1, 2024

Port of Vancouver foremen will be locked out on Monday unless they scrap a proposed strike, employers at Canada's biggest port said on Friday, but grain handling would not be affected.

News, Reuters

Montreal Port dockworkers begin overtime strike

By Reuters October 10, 2024

Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal have begun an overtime strike on Thursday morning, the port authority said, as negotiations over a new contract make little progress.

General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. port strike ends leaving cargo backlog

Tentative deal includes 62 per cent wage hike over six years

By David Shepardson, Doyinsola Oladipo, Reuters October 4, 2024

U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports began reopening late on Thursday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry's biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century, but clearing the cargo backlog will take time.

Aerial view of the eastern section of the Port of Montreal

General, News, Reuters

Montreal port says strike by workers is over, clients can expect delays

By David Ljunggren, Reuters October 3, 2024

A three-day strike by unionized Montreal port workers that shut down two container traffic terminals ended early on Thursday as scheduled.

Markets, News

Pulse Weekly: Pulse Canada braces for potential rail shutdown

By Adam Peleshaty August 20, 2024

Canada’s pulse industry has been battening down the hatches as the country’s major railways prepare for a work stoppage on Aug. 22.

A grain train pulls up alongside a cargo vessel at the Alliance Grain Terminal at Vancouver on Oct. 6, 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

News, Reuters

North American agriculture groups ask US, Canadian governments to stop rail strike

By Promit Mukherjee, Reuters, Tom Polansek August 20, 2024

Nearly three dozen North American agriculture groups, in a joint letter to the U.S. and Canadian governments today, urged action to avoid a rail stoppage.

Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Rant: Strike one, two, three, et cetera

By Dave Bedard May 28, 2024

By the time the paper version of this issue reaches you (around May 28), we’ll probably know whether Canada’s rail engineers, conductors and yard workers have reached a new collective bargaining agreement, or hit the picket line for yet another strike, or been legislated back to work. Prairie grain farmers have already seen this movie […] Read more

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Railway strike vote dismays farmers

Grain Growers of Canada calls on railways, workers to resolve their differences

By Karen Briere May 1, 2024

Grain Growers of Canada is sounding the alarm over a potential strike by workers at both of the country’s major railways.

Unifor says it stopped a CN train at a crossing Winnipeg near where members were demonstrating in solidarity with striking workers in Halifax. Photo: Unifor

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CN train stopped by demonstrators in Winnipeg, union says

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News March 15, 2024

A union representing striking workers in Halifax said it stopped a CN train in Winnipeg yesterday as part of escalations against that company.

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle extend rally to new highs

U.S. grains: Corn rises after setting contract lows on favorable US crop prospects

CBOT weekly: USDA/weather in focus for corn and soybeans

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle extend rally to new highs

U.S. grains: Corn rises after setting contract lows on favorable US crop prospects

CBOT weekly: USDA/weather in focus for corn and soybeans

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Find your ag news during the mail strike

Vancouver port employer could shut out foremen, grain will not be hit

Montreal Port dockworkers begin overtime strike

U.S. port strike ends leaving cargo backlog

Montreal port says strike by workers is over, clients can expect delays

Pulse Weekly: Pulse Canada braces for potential rail shutdown

North American agriculture groups ask US, Canadian governments to stop rail strike

Editor’s Rant: Strike one, two, three, et cetera

Railway strike vote dismays farmers

CN train stopped by demonstrators in Winnipeg, union says

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