In Canada and the USA, railway workers from Unifor, the Transportation Communications Union and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers have won landmark victories through union organising.
Railway workers across North America are demonstrating the power of union organising and collective bargaining – and have delivered tangible gains for workers and their communities as a result.
In Canada, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) affiliate Unifor won a legal battle that ensures new bargaining unit workers will be hired, prohibited outsourcing will end with historic union work returned, and workers impacted by the outsourcing are compensated.
The arbitration victory against Canadian National Railway (CN) means that it will have to reinvest and reopen the Transcona Shops’ Wheel and Traction Motor Shops – two major railway maintenance and manufacturing facilities in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where heavy railcar wheelsets and traction motors are assembled, repaired, refurbished and otherwise manufactured. (....)