Fatal Accident at CN in British Columbia
A Canadian National (CN) conductor was fatally injured yesterday afternoon while working just outside of a rail yard in Prince Rupert, B.C. The worker was a man in his thirties who had been with the company since 2018. His name is not being released.
Emergency Aid Should Extend to New Moms
Teamsters Canada is calling on Ottawa to support women who give birth during the pandemic and cannot receive maternity or parental benefits.
We Will Never Forget
Eight years ago today, tragedy struck our sisters and brothers at G4S. While performing a routine cash service at the University of Alberta’s HUB Mall, Travis Baumgartner fatally shot three of his coworkers, Eddie Rejano, Brian Ilesic and Michelle Shegelski. A fourth, Matthew Schuman, was rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.
Teamsters Canada Foundation donates $30,000 to BC charities
The Teamsters Canada Foundation is donating $30,000 to three British Columbia charities: the Potluck Café Society, Quest Outreach Society and Union Gospel Mission.
Ottawa Needs to Thank Truck Drivers
It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on all sectors of activity. Nurses, orderlies, cashiers and a few other trades were rightly thanked in a number of ways. However, I feel it is more than time to thank the truck drivers for the discreet but critical work.
A Major Victory for Injured Truck Drivers
Teamsters Local Union 31 recently won an important victory for injured workers, especially truck drivers.
Some 170 Molson workers to lose their job
The Teamsters Union has learned that 170 workers at the Molson plant on Notre-Dame Street and at the distribution centre on Dickson Street in Montreal will lose their jobs when operations are transferred to the new plant on the South Shore in the fall of 2021.
Fatal Accident at Greater Vancouver Terminal
Sadly, we received the news yesterday that Brother Jasvinder Riar, while at work as a Yard Conductor in Thornton Yard in the Greater Vancouver Terminal, was fatally injured in the performance of his duties.
What would our lives be like if there were no truck drivers?
Right from the start of the coronavirus outbreak, there have been waves of accolades for nurses, personal care workers, cashiers, and workers in other trades – and rightly so. One blind spot in our collective view of the situation, though, has been the necessary but unnoticed contribution, every day, by men and women truck drivers.
40th anniversary of the Prairie Steel Gang tragedy
During the afternoon of May 28, 1980, the Canadian Pacific, along with the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way, were shocked, shaken and silenced to discover a bus loaded with Engineering Services employees known as the “Prairie Steel Gang,” was involved in a horrific three-vehicle accident.
