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.
It never should have been sold in the first place!
I’d like to see a federal law in place that any service business or utility developed using taxpayer money may never be privatized unless all funding derived from taxpayers and any resulting land or property value is returned to taxpayers in advance.
The railway would’ve electrified years ago if it wasn’t for privatization.
But have you considered how much money would have been lost out on by not carving it up for scrap under a program of self described ‘managed decline’?
I was kind of expecting them to go wildcat like in Ontario. It worked there, and there’s zero chance the Liberals would want to take heat over sending in the riot police on picket lines.
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…
