The 2004 CN Rail workers strike was a legal strike by 5,500 CN employees who were members of the Canadian Auto Workers union. The job action officially started at 12:01 a.m. on February 20, 2004, and lasted three weeks, affecting CN rail yards, locomotive and rail car service facilities, and intermodal terminals across Canada.
The 2004 strike by the CAW workers was about a few different issues.
One issue, that was small was the percentage in the ...
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The 2004 CN Rail workers strike was a legal strike by 5,500 CN employees who were members of the Canadian Auto Workers union. The job action officially started at 12:01 a.m. on February 20, 2004, and lasted three weeks, affecting CN rail yards, locomotive and rail car service facilities, and intermodal terminals across Canada.
The 2004 strike by the CAW workers was about a few different issues.
One issue, that was small was the percentage in the wage increase. During some previous negotiated contracts in the 1990s workers were told if they took 0,0 and 0% wage increase while times were tough, that once the company started to do better, workers would also do better. This did not happen.
Some information from cn.ca:
In 2001 CN's profit rose more than 10%. Net income for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2001, rose to $296 million from $237 million in the year-earlier quarter.
2002 Record: free cash flow rises 16 per cent to $513 million.
2003: Net income for the first nine months of 2003 was ...
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