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The contract dispute between Canadian Pacific Railway and the 3,000 engineers, conductors and yard workers has rapidly escalated into a confrontation whose outcome will have a major impact on the class struggle across North America.

While business groups and provincial premiers are lining up to demand that rail workers be stripped of their right to strike by anti-democratic government legislation, CP Rail workers are determined to fight brutal working conditions and demanding a mass movement against North America’s sixth-largest rail company.

The ruling class is moving ever-more ferociously to impose austerity and suppress workers’ struggles in the name of the “national interest” and preparations for war with Russia.

A determined struggle for wage and benefit improvements can only be conducted in opposition to the corrupt Teamsters, which has sought to conceal the content of their talks with management and will attempt to sell out the rail workers at the earliest opportunity.

SHENYANG, Jan.18 (Xinhua) -- Rail workers in northeast China Shenyang braced themselves for the country 40-day-long Spring Festival travel rush when the city sl

Ports. billions of dollars for ports. highways, rail systems, sorely needed upgrades that would bring products faster and more efficiently the factory to the store to your house. let me be clear. we are proposing to make the biggest investment in ports in history. the bill would also make investments in our supply chains and manufacturing and strengthening our ability to make more goods from beginning to end right here in america. the bottom line, we have seen the cost of inaction in the pandemi...

Rail systems that sorely needed upgrading and would bring products faster and more efficiently from the factory to the store to your house. let me be clear. were proposing to make the biggest investment in ports in our history. the bill would also make investments in our supply chains and manufacturing and strengthening our ability to make more goods from the beginning to end right here in america. the bottom line, weve seen the cost of inaction in the pandemic, and the delays and congestion tha...

Bless the longshoremen, rail workers, truckers, and all the workers keeping our economy going. may god predict ootect our troo. thank you all so very much. president biden announcing some changes that will be coming to ports in california, now operating 24/7 to try to alleviate this bottleneck. matt eagan told us a few minutes ago, upwards of 70 full cargo ships to bring the goods in. >> he also said that walmart will be doing more, so will fedex and ups. and moving day and night. and fedex and ...

A rail strike by 2,000 workers in São Paulo paralyzed three railway lines on August 24. It came in the wake of hundreds of transit strikes and work stoppages in Brazil during the pandemic.

Isolation in england. police, fire, border force, transport and freight staff will now be able to join some food workers who can return to work if they test negative after being told to isolate, whether they are vaccinated or not. industry leaders are frustrated by rising staff shortages. it is inadequate and it is late. what we need is the government to realise that we have major problems occurring across all industrial sectors, because people are being pinged and are having to self—isolate h...