CNR train driving through Canadian Rockies. // Image from Canadian National Railway Company

BNN: Teamsters challenge minister’s move to resume rail service as CPKC lockout drags on

August 23, 2024 —

Rail workers are pushing back hard against the federal government’s move to get them back on the job.

At Canadian National Railway Co., trains began to move again Friday morning as workers started to return to work — even as the Teamsters union issued a 72-hour strike notice against CN shortly before 10 a.m. ET.

And at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd., the union representing some 3,300 employees at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd., is challenging a directive for binding arbitration issued by Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon to the country’s labour board.

Bruce Curran, PhD, associate professor in the faculty of law of the University of Manitoba, joins BNN Bloomberg to share his outlook for the markets.

To read more and listen to Professor Curran’s interview, please visit BNN.

He was also quoted in The Globe and Mail.

CN Railway, strike negotiations

Introducing The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law

After more than a year of hard work and planning, the editorial team at the Manitoba Law Journal announces the inaugural release of its newest dimension: The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law (TRETL). The release of the MLJ’s Volume 46, Issue 7 follows the merging of the freshly-minted Desautels Review and the long-standing Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law. TRETL will be the MLJ’s sixth dimension of publication, focussing on broad legal issues faced by business and trade globally as well as local issues respecting trade and enterprise in Manitoba.