Rail workers in Canada fight for a new contract, safe work conditions

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
During 2018 strike by 3,000 rail workers, unionists picketed Canadian Pacific in Montreal. Some 9,300 unionists at Canada’s two biggest rail companies are voting on strike action in May.

MONTREAL — Some 9,300 train conductors, yard workers, train engineers and dispatchers at Canada’s two biggest rail companies — Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — are fighting for safe working conditions and livable work schedules. Their contract…


Rail workers in Canada wage fight over safety, work schedules

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Teamsters rail workers picket Canadian National Railway headquarters in Montreal, Nov. 26, 2019, during eight-day strike over safety, face similar fight today over conditions, schedules.

MONTREAL —Canada’s two major railroads — Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — both filed a “notice of dispute” with the federal government Feb. 16, making it clear that the rail bosses intend to wage a combined fight against…


Over 200 Autoport strikers in Nova Scotia face injunction, scabs

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

The 239 Unifor union members at Canadian National Railway’s Autoport in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, have been on strike since Feb. 27. CN bosses have brought in scabs and filed for an injunction against the strikers’ right to picket. The…


Juan Almeida: Exemplary leader in Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
In front from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro with other Moncada combatants freed from Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955, after nationwide campaign for amnesty.

HAVANA — The life of Juan Almeida Bosque, a central leader of the Cuban Revolution for more than five decades, was highlighted at two events during the recent Havana International Book Fair here. They showed the revolutionary integrity, courage, discipline,…


Canada: Attacks on churches set back fight of Native peoples

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

MONTREAL — There have been 96 recorded cases of arson and graffiti attacks on churches across Canada, more than half of them Catholic churches, with several burned to the ground, since the discovery of what is likely the remains of…


Quebec bus drivers strike for better wages, conditions

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

QUEBEC CITY — School bus drivers from union locals B.R.-CSN (Confederation of National Trade Unions) and Tremblay & Paradis-CSN who are on strike met together at the Club Social Victoria here for a solidarity lunch Feb. 24. Their strike against…


Communist League candidates campaign in Canada

Vol. 86/No. 34 - September 19, 2022
Above right, Vincent Ardea in Montreal.

MONTREAL — Katy LeRougetel, a bakery worker and Communist League candidate in the Oct. 3 Quebec provincial elections for the riding of Anjou-Louis-Riel, and fellow CL candidate Félix Vincent Ardea in the Montreal riding of Marquette, have been knocking on…


Locked-out Rolls-Royce workers in Montreal rally, win solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022
Frédéric Labelle, president of Montreal local of CSN workers locked out by Rolls-Royce, speaks to unionists outside Montreal courthouse June 22, the day after bosses fired him.

MONTREAL — A festive yet determined barbecue was held here June 29 to show solidarity with 530 engine repair workers locked out by Rolls-Royce bosses and with 300 striking bakery workers at Bridor on the south shore. Both are organized…


Build solidarity with CN rail signal workers strike battle across Canada!

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
June 20 picket line at Vancouver, British Columbia, rail yard at start of signal workers strike. IBEW members are fighting for wage increases, humane work schedules, safety.

MONTREAL — Some 750 signal and communications workers, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, went on strike against the Canadian National Railway June 18 after negotiations broke down and the bosses demanded the union agree to submit unresolved…