Binding arbitration in rail dispute triggers protest, calls for railway nationalization [video]
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The Teamsters union protested in Halifax this week against the federal government's decision to impose binding arbitration in a dispute

The protest took place outside a Liberal Party fundraiser in downtown Halifax on Tuesday attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“The message to the government is that they have violated our members’ Charters rights,” Christopher Monette, director of public affairs for Teamsters Canada, told the NB Media Co-op.

He said the Minister’s decision shows private industry that “government will swoop in and save them” in a conflict with labour. CN and CPKC didn’t make anyone available for an interview.

  • AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    If you can’t negotiate and come to an agreement with your union, and ask the government to intervene, the government should impose conditions that are better than what the union is asking for.

    I mean, they won’t do it… Even though CN made $5B last year, and $4B the year before that, then turned around and spent most of it on stock buy-backs to inflate their share price, making insiders an insane amount of money…