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From left, CN chief operating officer Jim Vena, federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch and Unifor president Jerry Dias, after CN and Unifor reached a tentative labour agreement late Monday. (CNW Group/Employment and Social Development Canada)
Crops, Machinery

Last-minute tentative deal averts lockout at CN

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian National Railway (CN) has pulled its lockout notice after reaching a tentative labour deal with its unionized mechanical and clerical staff. The company, which last week set a lockout deadline of 11 p.m. ET Monday for employees represented by Unifor, announced the agreement late Monday night. “We are very pleased that the company and […] Read more
(Photo courtesy CN)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Industry braces for impact as CN lockout deadline nears

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Toronto | Reuters –– A looming lockout at Canada’s biggest railway threatens to delay imports from Asia and may compound a U.S. West Coast port logjam unless last-ditch contract talks succeed Monday. Canadian National Railway (CN) and Unifor, the union representing its 4,800 mechanical, clerical and trucking workers in Canada, resumed talks on Monday, hours […] Read more
(Photo courtesy CN)
Crops, Machinery

CN set to lock out 4,800 mechanical, clerical staff Monday

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian National Railway (CN) plans to lock out about 4,800 unionized employees across Canada starting Monday night (Feb. 23) unless their union agrees to arbitration for a new contract. Montreal-based CN’s move follows Thursday’s announcement by Unifor — the union representing CN’s mechanical, intermodal and clerical workers — that it will hold a strike vote […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

U.S. EPA to propose biofuels standards this spring

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Grapevine, Tex. | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to put out a proposal that will address Renewable Fuels Standards for 2014, 2015 and 2016 this spring, an agency official at an industry conference in Grapevine, Tex., said Thursday. The agency will address all three years at once and plans to look at […] Read more
Hardi Alpha Evo 4100
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Self-propelled crop sprayers see upgrades

Machinery Guide takes a quick look at the Hardi Alpha Evo 4100, Hagie STS 2015, John Deere R4045, and the New Holland Guardian SP.400F

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s February and the itch to get into the shop and get things ready to put some seed in the ground is growing a little stronger every day. On many farms, the job that comes first, however, is spraying. Increasingly, this a job where it’s important to control the controllable and take full advantage when […] Read more
(Versatile-Ag.ca)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Ag equipment maker Buhler cutting production, staff

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg farm equipment manufacturer Buhler Industries is reducing its workforce and paring back production ahead of an expected drop in farm incomes. The company, whose brands include Versatile tractors and Farm King implements, announced its first-quarter financials Friday for the period ending Dec. 31, booking net profit of $1.5 million on fourth-best quarterly revenue of […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

CP engineers, conductors halt strike

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and its unionized conductors, engineers, trainmen and yardmen agreed Monday to binding arbitration in their contract talks, ending a strike the day after it began. The end of the strike, which began Sunday just after midnight, comes under the threat of federal back-to-work legislation, which was due to be tabled Monday […] Read more
Kellie Leitch speaking in Ottawa in March 2014. (Labour.gc.ca)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Railway back-to-work legislation going to Commons

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Back-to-work legislation to halt a day-old strike by engineers and conductors at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is scheduled for introduction Monday in the House of Commons. Federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch is booked on the Commons’ order paper for Monday to introduce “An Act to provide for the continuation and resumption of rail service operations.” […] Read more

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