{"id":5897,"date":"2018-04-18T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=1245178e89604008bcd558c2976d2fb6"},"modified":"2018-04-18T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T05:03:07","slug":"teamsters-serves-canadian-pacific-with-72-hour-strike-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/18\/teamsters-serves-canadian-pacific-with-72-hour-strike-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamsters serves Canadian Pacific with 72-hour strike notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &#8212; The union representing about 3,000 conductors and locomotive engineers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it has formally served the company with a 72 hour notice of an intent to strike.<\/p>\n<p>The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference cites a lack of progress at the bargaining table but says talks are set to resume on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The union says should the two sides fail to reach a negotiated settlement, the workers will walk out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, April 21.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Pacific workers voted 94.2 per cent on April 6 in favour of strike action to support their contract demands.<\/p>\n<p>The union says the railway is seeking cuts and concessions and an end to workers being pushed to &#8220;well beyond their point of exhaustion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The previous contract expired at the end of 2017 and federal mediators were brought in on Jan. 29, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Teamsters reached a tentative deal with Canadian National Railway Co. last month for a new contract for about 1,700 CN locomotive engineers in Canada. Voting on that tentative deal is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:CP, TSX:CNR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &mdash; The union representing about 3,000 conductors and locomotive engineers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it has formally served the company with a 72 hour notice of an intent to strike. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference cites a lack of progress at the bargaining table but says talks are set to resume on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}