Teamsters Ratify 4-Year Agreement with CP
Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) at Canadian Pacific (CP) voted to ratify a four-year agreement covering over 3000 conductors and locomotive engineers. Workers at the Kootenay Valley Railway (KVR) also ratified a five-year agreement...
Maax Workers on Strike
Tomorrow morning at 5:00 o’clock at the Maax plant, some 120 men and women workers represented by the Teamsters Union will go on strike. The main issues are wages and vacation seniority. Negotiations have been ongoing since March 2018...
MEDIA ADVISORY – Five Résidences Soleil Retirement Homes on Strike Tomorrow Morning
Strikes are planned tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. at five Résidences Soleil retirement homes. Facilities in Granby, Laval, Saint-Hilaire, Pointe-aux-Trembles, and Saint-Laurent will be affected by the labour dispute. At this time, no further meetings with the company have been set...
Five Résidences Soleil Retirement Homes on Strike on July 17
Members of Teamsters Local Union 106 are on a mission to improve conditions in their workplaces and raise wages in their industry.
Lac-Mégantic, five years later
Readers will recall that the derailment of a train of 72 tanker cars full of crude oil caused explosions and fires that destroyed nearly 40 buildings in a two square kilometres area, leaving 47 dead and an entire community devastated.
Teamsters Support Canada’s Retaliatory Tariffs
Teamsters Canada fully supports the actions the Trudeau Government today announced in retaliation to the Trump tariffs. These measures are a righteous defence of Canadian workers, industries, and jobs. Should the U.S. not change course, we would encourage the government to explore other retaliatory options, like expropriating American pharmaceutical patents and other intellectual property...
Is the brewing industry going flat?
June 12 and 13, 2018, the union representatives of thousands of brewery workers met in Edmonton to discuss the issues and challenges facing their members in all parts of Canada.
We Will Never Forget
Six 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 Denounces Trump, Fully Supports Government of Canada
Today, the Teamsters Canada Executive Board passed a resolution denouncing U.S. President Donald Trump, his personal attacks against Prime Minister Trudeau and his administration’s tariffs on Canadian goods.
Teamsters Raise Over $1 Million in Support of United Way Community Work
I am honoured to grant Teamsters Canada and its members the “2017 Thanks a Million” award for raising over $1 million in support of the community work carried out by Centraide/United Way.
