World Business Briefing: Canada: Tentative Rail Contract
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The Teamsters union said it had reached a tentative contract deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway and a strike by 3,200 maintenance workers in Canada should end soon. No details of the proposed three-year contract are being released before a ratification vote. The workers have been off the job since May 15. After months of negotiations, the two sides stopped talking when the strike began. Maintenance employees have been without a contract since December.
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MOSCOW (CP) - Petro-Canada and Russia's Gazprom have signed a tentative deal aimed at shipping liquefied natural gas to North American markets by 2009.
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Teck Cominco  and the union representing workers at its Highland Valley copper mine have reached a tentative labor contract, the union said on Sunday, narrowly avoiding a strike at the mine in British Columbia.
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United Airlines on Tuesday announced it has secured a tentative contract agreement with its pilots. The agreement makes the pilots the first of United&#39;s four big unions to come to initial terms.
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Bombardier Inc. said Air Canada may buy as many as 90 of its aircraft, for a potential value of $2.45 billion. The agreement includes 30 firm orders, valued at $821.
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Air Canada has agreed to buy 30  Canadair Regional Jets from Bombardier Inc. BBDb.TO in a  contract valued at $821 million, the companies said on Monday,  but the order falls 15 jets short of an earlier plan.
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The thought of spending a second year in a lockout was one of the reasons why a tentative agreement was reached between RMI union officials and the companyâs management.
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The French Group Alstom Saturday will sign contracts worth up to 1 billion Euros (1.23 billion dollars) in China for the delivery of trains and locomotives, French sources with knowledge of the deal revealed to AFP.
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By Seattle Times  Jun. 20--It may soon become easier to know how long your wait will be at the Canadian border.
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Amtrak said yesterday it reached tentative agreement on a long-sought contract with 12 labor unions, averting what would have been the railroad's first strike in its 36-year history.
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The French Group Alstom will sign contracts worth up to 1 billion Euros (1.23 billion dollars) in China for the delivery of trains and locomotives, French sources with knowledge of the deal revealed to AFP.
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Bombardier Inc. on Thursday said it had  signed a long-term contract as part of a consortium to build a  rapid rail transit system in South Africa.
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Union members at four BFGoodrich Tire Manufacturing plants will vote this week on a tentative contract that would avoid a strike by about 3,400 US workers and end a walkout about 1,100 more employees in Canada.
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Bombardier (TSX:BBD.A) (TSX:BBD.B) a annoncÃ© ce jour que le conseil d&#39;administration de la sociÃ©tÃ© a approuvÃ© la crÃ©ation d&#39;un nouveau Bureau du PrÃ©sident afin de confier la direction et les orientations stratÃ©giques de l&#39;entreprise au prÃ©sident
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Canada's Bombardier Transportation and two joint-venture partners have won a &#36;424 million order to supply 20 high-speed trains to China's Ministry of Railways.
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MOSCOW (CP) - Petro-Canada and Russia&#39;s Gazprom have signed a tentative deal aimed at shipping liquefied natural gas to North American markets by 2009.
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MOSCOWâAfter years of delay, the Canadian government will soon have to come up with a concrete plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions following yesterday&#39;s approval of the Kyoto Protocol by Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament.