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CN: 'WE WILL SUE STRIKERS INDIVIDUALLY' |
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Saturday, 10 February 2007 07:44 |
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Source: WWW.UTU.ORG
Canadian National Railway Co., the country's biggest railroad, said it plans to use managers to keep its freight trains moving after 2,800 conductors and yard workers commenced a strike at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, reported Reuters and Bloomberg News.
CN said the strike is restricted to Canada and its other unionized employees remain at work.
(Editor’s note: CN’s Montreal-based law firm, Ogilvy Renault, notified affected UTU general chairpersons Rex Beatty, Raymond LeBel, Bryan Boechler and Sylvia Leblanc that because the general chairpersons did not follow the UTU Constitution’s provisions related to a strike, and failed to gain strike required strike authorization from the UTU International, that CN considered the strike unlawful under the Canadian Labour Code and that CN would sue strikers individually for "any and all damages" incurred by CN.
[Also, because the CN general committees did not follow the UTU Constitution, whose provisions were approved through member ratification, strikers cannot collect strike benefits from the International and legal fees incurred cannot be paid out of International funds. UTU International President Paul Thompson had notified the involved general chairpersons on Feb. 9 that that was the case and that the International and its officers are bound by the UTU Constitution.] |
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CN Railway Conductors Strike After Deadline Passes (Update2) |
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Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:10 |
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CN Railway Conductors Strike After Deadline Passes (Update2)
By Rob Delaney Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian National Railway Co., the country's largest railroad, said conductors went on strike after a midnight deadline on contract talks passed without agreement on a new pact. Managers will replace 2,800 conductors and yard workers represented by the United Transportation Union to keep Canadian National's freight operations running, the Montreal-based company said in a statement on its Web site today. Commuter rail services in Toronto and Montreal won't be affected, it said.
``We are ready to negotiate with the UTU at any time to achieve a fair and equitable collective agreement,'' Canadian National President E. Hunter Harrison said in the statement. ``We have the resources and the resolve to run the railway with management personnel filling strikers' jobs for as long as it takes to reach an economically sound settlement.'' The strike at North America's fifth-largest rail company by revenue could disrupt shipment of metals, grain, vehicles and other cargo across the continent. A 28-day strike in 2004 by 5,000 workers represented by the Canadian Auto Workers union cost the company C$24 million, or 8 cents a share, equal at the time to $18 million. |
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CN rail union goes out on strike |
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Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:03 |
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By CP
TORONTO -- Reassurances were made that Via Rail passenger trains across the country would remain on track during a strike by Canadian National Railway conductors and yard-service workers. But the Canadian Wheat Board said the strike could hurt its operations and farmers. Some 2,800 members of the United Transportation Union employed by CN walked out at 12:01 a.m. today after talks in Montreal failed to reach a deal. CN is seeking to have the strike declared illegal. "The company will be applying to the Canada Industrial Relations Board for a declaration that the strike is illegal," Mark Hallman, a CN spokesman, told The Canadian Press. |
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