With no end in sight to the lock out of unionized workers the Rocky Mountaineer tourist train is forging ahead with a new route. Ian Robertson speaking for Rocky Mountaineer was asked if there is way to end the labour dispute. "I am not a labour expert and I don't know what the next steps are I mean for us as an organization we are … [Read more...]
Sinclair calls for greater focus on Rocky Mountaineer situation
May 4, 2012 by
The president of the B.C. Federation of Labour says the actions of the Rocky Mountaineer board are brutal as a dispute with striking workers turns nasty.Jim Sinclair says the company has cut down trees with strike signs on them and then tore down a taxi stand set up outside the picket lines. "It is unbelievable really what is going on. I noticed … [Read more...]