The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) has ordered the two major Canadian freight railways and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) to undergo binding arbitration over a new labor agreement that would replace the old one that expired in December 2023. A meeting of parties is to take place later this week.
Joanna Marsh
Joanna Marsh, Assistant Editor, International Trade Today, joined Warren Communications News in 2024 after covering the supply chain from the transportation angle for a decade. At ITT, she covers U.S. import compliance and import regulations related to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and partnering governing agencies. She has covered the U.S. and Canadian freight railroads for FreightWaves, and she has also written about maritime transport trends, climate change, and AI and machine learning trends for publications such as Railway Age, Transport Topics, Breakbulk Magazine and the Freight Business Journal of North America. She also worked the U.S. coal markets beat for Argus Media.
Just as it seemed there would be a resolution to the work stoppage involving two major Canadian freight railroads and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) late Aug. 22, union members were saying as of our press time the next day that they weren't yet ready to return to work, continuing the uncertainty over when the work stoppage will officially end.
As USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service prepares for the Dec. 1 enforcement of the seventh phase of Lacey Act import declaration requirements (see 2405300052), officials already are eyeing the challenges that may come in implementing Phase VIII.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America is calling the Agricultural Marketing Service's proposed changes to the definition of importer for the purposes of a promotion order on paper products “unprecedented" in its breadth and ramifications for customs brokers, according to comments filed with the agency.
Major freight railroad Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) said over the weekend that it would lock out members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) if CN and the union haven't been able to hash out a new labor contract or agree to binding arbitration.
In the Aug. 14 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 32), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning certain hearing amplification devices.
In the Aug. 7 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 31), CBP published proposals to revoke ruling letters concerning child-sized portable toilets and forged titanium billets.
In the July 31 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 30), CBP published proposals to revoke ruling letters concerning electromechanical oral hygiene devices.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board determined on Aug. 9 that stopping freight rail service in Canada would not result in an immediate and serious danger to the safety or health of the public. This means that members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) could go on strike as early as Aug. 22 should union members and the two Canadian freight railways, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Canadian National (CN) fail to negotiate a new labor contract.
DHS has added five more entries to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, bringing the total up to 73 entities flagged by U.S. officials for allegedly using forced labor by Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).