Tag Archives: Steven MacKinnon

The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work. In a legal documen...

Canada Post and the union representing its workers are commenting on how weekend talks for a new contract went, with the employer calling them less productive than they'd hoped and the union claiming ...

A tentative deal was reached Friday evening between the Grain Workers Union Local 333 and the Vancouver Terminal Elevators Asscociation (VTEA), says Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon in a post ...

Labour disputes, including the ongoing strike of workers from grain terminals in Metro Vancouver, are creating challenging times for grain companies. More than six hundred employees walked off the job...

Ottawa is stepping in to get freight trains moving again hours after an unprecedented lockout by the country's two largest railways brought cross-country freight traffic to a standstill. Labour Minist...

Provincial Highways Minister Lori Carr wrote to the federal government, urging them to use available measures to prevent a work stoppage of CPKC and CN Rail while the railways and union negotiate a ne...

Farm groups continue to urge the railways and the union representing its workers to reach an agreement as soon as possible. This comes after the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) made its rulin...