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April 30, 2008 John Almdal elected Council 4000 Regional Rep Great Lakes Region On April 26, 2008, John Almdal was elected as Council 4000's new Regional Representative responsible for servicing Great Lakes Region members for Local 4003 at CN, Coyote Terminals and Toronto Terminals Railway.  Almdal defeated his challenger Geoff Green.  Both candidates are employed at CN and work in the Greater Toronto area.   [More]

May 1, 2008 May Day 2008 - International Workers' Day On May Day, in Canada and around the world, celebrities, artists, musicians, writers, faith organizations, charities and community activists will join workers and their unions in a call to honour those who have struggled to improve the lives of working people.  The first day of every May is International Workers' Day.   [More]

May 12, 2008 CN vacates downtown Edmonton's landmark CN Tower The last of a CN presence in downtown Edmonton has come to end with this months move of 250 CN employees from the CN Tower to existing offices and a new office complex just built at Walker Yard, north of Edmonton’s City Centre Airport. New Walker Yard buidling The CN Tower, when it was built in 1966, was the tallest office building in Western Canada.  It was sold by CN some years ago and the Company has been leasing back space in the building.  After years of downsizing, by 2008 CN occupied only a few floors of what was once the heart of its Western Canada operations.   [More]

May 12, 2008 VIA Rail train quarantined enroute from Vancouver to Toronto Canadian health authorities quarantined a VIA Rail passenger train after one person was found dead and several became seriously ill on Friday.  One woman was airlifted to a hospital in Timmins, about 100 kilometres away, and emergency response workers in hazmat suits rushed to the scene in the Northern Ontario hamlet of Foleyet to tend to those with flu-like symptoms.  Two cars of the VIA train with 260 passengers and 30 crew members was crew members and off board employees.     [More]

May 12, 2008 Quebec Council celebrates new Quebec Director-Silver Anniversary At his last Quebec Council during his 14 year tenure as Quebec Director, Luc Desnoyers shared with the more than 250 delegates gathered in Mont Tremblant what he believes is the reason for the union’s success in Quebec and the rest of Canada. "The CAW embodies the members’ vision of what a union should be,” he said.   [More]

May 12, 2008 May 17, 2008 is the International Day Against Homophobia The CAW stands in solidarity with our lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans members and with LGBT communities across the globe who daily confront homophobia and transphobia and take courageous steps to bring about real equality.   [More]