grain shipments

Employers at British Columbia ports say they are going ahead with locking out more than 700 foremen across the province after strike activities from union members began. The lockout will shut port terminals operated by members of the BC Maritime Employers Association, which are located across the B.C. coast from Victoria and Vancouver up to […]

More than 9,000 workers at Canada’s two major railways could be either on strike or locked out as of Thursday, disrupting supply chains relied upon by many industries.  The union representing thousands of workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. says it has served a 72-hour strike notice to the railway. The Teamsters Canada Rail […]

Rail workers have rejected an offer from Canadian National Railway Co. to enter into binding arbitration, as the country’s largest railroad operator tries to steer clear of a strike in a move the union called disingenuous. The process, when agreed to, sees a mutually approved arbitrator settle a labour dispute by deciding the terms of […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war on Ukraine and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation. For months, […]

The two Canadian railways are setting new records for grain shipments. CP Rail set a new company record of 3 million tons of grain shipped in October, and CN set a railway record of 3.27 million tons moved to port last month. The chair of SaskWheat, Brett Halstead of Nokomis, welcomes the news but says […]

  Saskatchewan farmers welcome the removal of barricades on the CN Rail link to the grain port of Prince Rupert, B.C. Anti-pipeline protesters removed the week-long blockade late Thursday after receiving government promises of discussion on the issue. SaskWheat chair Brett Halstead is hoping grain shipments can resume quickly after being halted since last Saturday. […]

Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) voted 91.3 percent in favor of the deal. It was reached following an eight day strike in November that tied up grain shipments. Conductors, yard workers and train persons will receive annual wage increases of 2.5%/2.5%/3%. There is also a taxable $1,000 ratification bonus. Wages were not […]

CN Rail says grain movement is back to normal after an eight day strike last month put a halt to most shipments. Executive vice president Sean Finn says movement of Canadian grain is back to the pre-strike pace after recovering from the week-long strike in late November. He says it took less than three weeks […]