Ok now a Strike! Ritz farmers have bills due March15 with FCC!

[agstar77]

Get big, borrow more, be efficient be the best you can be then get the shaft. Don't farmers ever learn?

[macdon02]

I'm close to the point where I just say screw it. Let them strike as long as they want, encourage CN to do the same along with the dockworkers at port. Lets get this over with once and for all with one huge cluster f@$^. We need a reset of the system. Let everyone starve.

[macdon02]

We might lose a couple weeks, month at the most before the feds step in. The spinoff is too big from us for them to do nothing. Road bans won't go on.

[ErgotErnie]

Macdon has the right idea, let shit hit the fan, these issues have to get worked out and the sooner the better. I don't agree with these unions striking but how the hell do you blame them when in 2012 your CEO total salary with bonus's and stocks was 49.1 million. I'm hearing the same story in the oil patch,these oil company's want everyone to lower rates to help get threw these hard times but the last few years the top brass has been taking huge bonus's. The greed is out if control.

[SASKFARMER3]

Well it's nice to see we have one guy who won the grain lottery, nice comments ice man after the next drought takes your farm we will see how well positioned you are.
But I digress again. This is about guys who have grain to deliver and elevators that are full and farmers who can't get paid because some railway is striking.
Yes vancouver is taking cargo from the usa. Because of strikes down their.

[Oliver88]

Which farms group are getting after the Transport Minister to impose back to work legislation??

[sawfly]

not to worry about the strike.
it is a union.
Unions are an even lower dog in the govt.s mind than farmers.
the gov. will let the strike go on
just long enough , to get some mileage about sending them back.

it will not be 2 years and billions
in losses , like the rail roads performance.

i

[mustardman]

How can Hunter Harrison lay off 1600 people and Not expect the shit to hit the fan?

[Klause]

Apparently cn will strike iin March ..

[bucket]

Unifor served strike notice. CP is an arrogant bunch.

The optics are bad for cp this time.

Poor service. Lack of equipment. Lack of workers. Pissing matches every other day.

Business and people are sick of their excuses.

[Hopperbin]

Somehow striking maintennance workers does not sound safe to do. With shares up the bull investors still got their horns on.I just wish the talks we more transparent. And they improve grain shipping.

Second CP Rail union gives strike noticeTORONTO (Reuters) - A second union representing workers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd CP.TO has given notice that it may go on strike just after midnight on Saturday.Unifor, which has been in contract negotiations with CP Rail and represents about 1,800 maintenance and safety workers at the railway, said in a release that it gave notice late on Wednesday.The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents engineers and conductors, gave notice on Tuesday that would strike just after midnight on Saturday unless it reaches a contract deal.

[Hopperbin]

The Teamsters union that represents the 3,100 workers has told the company it will strike after midnight on Saturday if mediated talks in Montreal fail to resolve disagreements over rest time and shift scheduling.A strike could hobble much of the Canadian manufacturing, retail and commodities sectors, which are served by two major rail carriers but often cannot choose between them. CP said its managers have been trained to run locomotives, but not all the freight will get moved if crews walk off the job.Ms. Cobden said it takes three-and-a-half trucks to replace one rail car, and most lumber mills will not be able to find enough trucking capacity to replace trains. Many mills produce pulp and paper that cannot be stored outdoors, so they cannot stockpile while waiting for rail service to resume, she said.“Our mills are very remote and so is the global marketplace, and so we rely on the rail system,” Ms. Cobden said from Ottawa. “The options for us are very limited.”The forest products group is calling for the government to end any work stoppage with back-to-work legislation, given the importance of the railway to Canada’s economy.Labour Minister Kellie Leitch said in a statement that it would not be appropriate to speculate what steps the government would take if a strike happened.“Our government has always said that protecting the Canadian economy is a top priority, therefore, we strongly encourage both sides to work together and reach an agreement that will ensure the continuation of rail services,” Ms. Leitch said.Wade Sobkowich of the Western Grain Elevator Association said commodity traders are unable to prepare for any strike by moving more crops to ports ahead of a possible strike, given the tight supply of hopper cars.Grain companies that cannot fulfill customer orders face contract extension penalties, charges from ship owners forced to wait at port, and lost opportunity costs. “There’s very little we can do to prepare,” he said from Winnipeg. “We require the railways to keep operating so we can move product.”A spokesman for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc., which makes vehicles in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ont., said CP is the company’s only rail option, and the car maker is looking at unspecified alternatives to get its products to market.Honda Canada Inc., also a CP customer, said its strike preparations include storing vehicles and finding shipping alternatives.Keith Creel, CP’s chief financial officer, said company management will be deployed across the country on Saturday and ready to run trains. “We won’t be able to move 100 per cent of the business, but certainly we’re going to protect the business as best we can,” he said.Speaking at an investors conference in Florida, Mr. Creel said a strike could last three to 10 days before the government would be able to end it with legislation.The federal government last year responded to a threatened strike at Canadian National Railway Co.with talk of a legislated end. In 2012, Ottawa ended a strike at CP after just a few days.Mr. Creel said the company could lose a penny a share in profit for each day of the strike. But given the costs of meeting the union’s demands, Mr. Creel said, it is a better financial decision for the company to stand its ground.Saturday at midnight is also the deadline for contract talks at CN. The Unifor union, which represents about 4,800 mechanical and clerical staff at the railway, is in mediated talks with the employer in Montreal this week but has not set a strike deadline, said Brian Stevens, Unifor’s rail director.CN is also in talks with the Teamsters for a collective agreement covering 1,800 locomotive engineers. A CN spokesman said he is confident the company will not face a labour disruption in either case.