Articles Written by Allison Lampert

Teamsters seek charges against CP to cap working hours

Reading Time: 3 minutes Montreal/Toronto | Reuters — A union is taking the unusual step of pursuing contempt of court charges against Canada’s second-largest railroad, in a previously unreported case that escalates the debate over working hours for railroad employees, according to two sources and legal documents. The Teamsters union argued in court filings that Canadian Pacific Railway should […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Worker’s plea for rest spurs breakthrough in CN strike, union says

By Allison Lampert November 26, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Montreal | Reuters — As Canada’s biggest rail strike in a decade dragged on with no resolution in sight, the recorded pleas of an exhausted rail worker who wanted a break after a 10-hour shift helped deliver a critical breakthrough, a union leader told Reuters on Tuesday. The audio recording, released on Monday by Teamsters […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

CN, Teamsters reach deal to end strike

By Allison Lampert November 26, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute Montreal | Reuters — Teamsters Canada and Canadian National Railway on Tuesday said they reached a tentative deal to end a strike at the country’s largest railroad that had entered its eighth day, disrupting supply chains across the country. “We have a deal,” a CN spokesman said. The union said normal operations will resume on […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters, Weather

CN strike drags on, hitting grain exports, fertilizer output

By Allison Lampert, Kelsey Johnson November 25, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — A prolonged strike at Canadian National Railway, the country’s largest railroad, sent further shocks through the economy on Monday with grain shipments scuttled and layoffs planned at fertilizer producers and an auto shipment terminal. As Canada’s biggest rail strike in a decade entered its seventh day, industry kept pressuring the government […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Talks continue toward ending CN strike as factories slow output

By Allison Lampert, Rod Nickel November 20, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Montreal/Winnipeg | Reuters — Talks to end a strike by thousands of workers at Canada’s biggest railroad, Canadian National Railway, continued on Wednesday, as industrial plants slowed output of products cut off from their markets. About 3,000 unionized workers, including conductors and yardmen, hit picket lines on Tuesday after talks with management failed to resolve […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

By Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren October 2, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where many dairy farmers are based, […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Informal NAFTA talks seen likely in next few days at U.N.

By Allison Lampert September 23, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Montreal | Reuters — U.S. and Canadian officials trying to reach a deal on NAFTA are “very likely” to hold informal talks on the sidelines of a major U.N. meeting in the next few days, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday. With time running out ahead of a U.S.-imposed deadline of the end […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Fear, frustration on dairy farms as trade concessions sought

By Allison Lampert, Rod Nickel August 30, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes Winnipeg/Montreal | Reuters — Marie-Pier Vincent, a fourth-generation Quebec dairy farmer, worries it will be even harder to make ends meet if Canada allows more tariff-free imports of milk products from the U.S. under a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement. Vincent, 28, is already looking for a second job to pay back the money […] Read more

Reuters

Tariff relief for Canada’s farmers at issue in Quebec election

By Allison Lampert August 23, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Montreal |Reuters – Quebec farmers want further relief from a global tariff dispute ahead of Oct. 1 elections in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province, which has seen a recent rise in nationalist sentiment. Quebec’s ruling Liberals, centrists but separate from the federal Liberal party, launched their campaign on Thursday. They trail in polls behind the center-right Coalition Avenir Quebec […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CP conductors, engineers to get nine per cent raise over four years

By Allison Lampert June 6, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Montreal | Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway conductors and locomotive engineers will get a nine per cent salary hike over four years as part of a tentative agreement reached last week with the Teamsters, spokesmen from both the union and CP said on Wednesday. The agreement, which must first be ratified by members to go […] Read more

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