Canadian National Railway News

Canadian National Railway and its locomotive engineers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will send their wage and benefit contract impasse to binding arbitration after failing to negotiate an accord through direct talks.

The village of Plainfield has decided to drop its fight against Canadian National, in exchange for some significant local upgrades.

Peterson Road between Midlothian Road to Route 45 will be closed Friday so the Canadian National Railway can make repairs to the rail crossing, the Lake County Department of Transportation said.

CHICAGO - U.S. wheat traders shrugged off news of a railroad strike in Canada, a major wheat producer and exporter, as any supply disruption was expected to be short lived and unlikely to shift demand to the United States.

CN Rail's locomotive engineers are heading back to work after the Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters union reached a deal.

Canadian National Railway Co. and the Teamsters union have reached a deal to end a strike by locomotive engineers which began Saturday , the Canadian Press reported.

Canadian National Railway Co. has conditionally offered to withdraw a contentious work rule change in a "good faith effort" to end a strike by its locomotive engineers.

The federal government is prepared to table back-to-work legislation Monday to end the Canadian National Railway strike if the two sides do not reach a deal by the start of the week.

Canadian National Railway offered a potential olive branch Tuesday to striking locomotive engineers, who are angry about a change in the amount of time they have to work each month, Reuters reports.

Canada's labor minister asked Teamsters-represented Canadian National Railway locomotive engineers to accept binding arbitration to settle the strike they called on Saturday after talks with the railway operator failed to reach an agreement, media reports say.

In an effort to break the impasse with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and end the strike, CN today made a new offer to the TCRC.

Canada-based locomotive engineers for Canadian National Railway Co. started a strike Saturday, and the government has proposed legislation to stop the strike, Bloomberg reported.

Canadian National and the union representing 1,700 striking locomotive engineers reached a tentative deal on Wednesday.

An offer reportedly made by Canadian National Railway to the union representing engineers that went on strike over the weekend did not impress investors on Wednesday morning, as shares in the rail operator were trading down by 1.3%. The lack of a positive market response to the reported olive branch could be a result of the refusal by the union ...

A strike at Canada's biggest railway has put only minor pressure on grain transportation so far, but that could change if the strike continues beyond this week, analysts and industry experts said on Tuesday.

Although ships are keeping their schedules at the Port of Halifax, N.S., the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway is affecting railcar supply and some marine operations.

Negotiations between Canadian National Railway Co . and its 1,700 locomotive engineers in Canada have ended with no agreement on a new labor contract, according to a statement from PR Newswire.

Canadaa s opposition Bloc Quebecois and New Democratic parties said they will reject a government motion to speed debate on a bill forcing Canadian National Railway Co.

Canada's top West Coast port is warning the government and industry that the new strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway could leave lasting damage.

Canadian National Railway Co. , whose unionized locomotive engineers went on strike yesterday, rejected an offer for binding wage arbitration because it didna t include a clear timeline for concluding the dispute.