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Letter to the Members on Personal Financial Well-Being
A Message from Wealth Consultant and Industrial Alliance Pension Plan Administrator Greetings Teamster Brothers and Sisters, I have had the pleasure of meeting many of you over the years, and…
CN Appears on the Verge of Closing its Montreal Rail Traffic Control Centre
The company is moving families across the country like goods on a train… The post CN Appears on the Verge of Closing its Montreal Rail Traffic Control Centre appeared first…
Petition to Government for Emergency Responders to be Designated Essential Workers
Transcript from the Presentation of a Petition on behalf of Emergency Medical Responders, Primary Care Paramedics and Emergency Medical Dispatchers to the House of Assembly by MHA David Brazil and…
Letter to the editor: Give Emergency Medical Response Workers a Voice in Negotiations
Teamsters Local 855 represents the majority of PCPs and EMRs in the province’s rural and community ambulance operations. They deliver emergency health-care services to the residents of our province every…
Fatal Canadian Pacific Rail Accident in Port Coquitlam
A Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) locomotive engineer died last night in an accident at the company’s rail yard in Port Coquitlam, BC. This is the tenth member of the Teamsters…
Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreement with CN, Ending Strike
After a weeklong strike, the Teamsters and Canadian National (CN) have reached a tentative agreement to renew the collective agreement for over 3,000 conductors, trainpersons and yard workers. The post…
Teamsters Release Recording of CN Ordering Fatigued Conductor to Work
Teamsters Canada today released a recording of a CN supervisor, a chief rail traffic controller (RTC), ordering a fatigued conductor to continue working for several hours. The post Teamsters Release…
In Memoriam: Sean Tracey – Parcel and Package Division (Purolator Courier)
Oct 26, 1955 – Nov 18, 2019 Passed suddenly but peacefully away at his home on Monday, November 18, 2019. Sean Patrick Tracey, aged 64 years. Predeceased by his parents…
In Memoriam: Harry Richards – Construction Division (Retired Nov 21, 2017)
Dec 26, 1947 – Nov 17, 2019 Mr. Henry “Harry” Richards passed peacefully away at home on November 17, 2019 at the age of 71 after a battle with cancer,…