Billboard campaign targets management-run trains at Southern Railway
NEW WESTMINSTER—Locked out CUPE 7000 members working for Southern Railway (SRY) have sent a loud message to company president Frank Butzelaar, courtesy of a lighted billboard message on the Queensborough bridge—located within view of SRY’s main office. The 35-by-10 foot billboard ad, which went up on Wednesday morning, says: “Southern Railway has locked out its […]
BC Fed, CUPE BC support locked out Southern Railway workers
ABBOTSFORD—BC Federation of Labour President Irene Lanzinger, along with CUPE BC General Vice-President Dal Benning and Fraser Valley Regional Vice-President Paul Albrecht, brought messages of solidarity and support to locked out workers at Southern Railway’s Huntingdon property here on Sunday afternoon. Before a small, rain-soaked gathering hosted by CUPE 7000 president Bill Magri, Lanzinger pledged […]
CUPE 387 members support locked out Southern Railway workers
NEW WESTMINSTER—The picket line at the east end of the Southern Railway Trapp Yard was briefly converted to a pizza party on Wednesday afternoon, with members of New Westminster’s civic CUPE local bringing food and pop to locked out members of CUPE 7000. “They’re in our own backyard, and it’s not every day that we […]
Darcy, Faoro to SRY workers: Keep up the good fight
NEW WESTMINSTER—Southern Railway workers are not only standing strong for their own collective agreement but are also waging a larger fight for the rights of all working people, Judy Darcy and Paul Faoro told locked out CUPE 7000 members at a picket line here on Thursday. The New Westminster MLA and CUPE BC secretary-treasurer thanked […]
