Bombardier Transportation said Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 it had “signed a new contract” to continue running New Jersey Transit’s RiverLINE, roughly paralleling the Delaware River between Camden, N.J., and the state capital, Trenton.
Workers at Bombardier Transportation’s Thunder Bay, Ontario facility are expected to vote Friday morning, Sept. 12, 2014, on an agreement that would end an eight-week strike, crippling the company’s delivery of light rail transit and subway vehicles.
Bombardier Transportation workers represented by Unifor local 1075, by a sound majority, have rejected the latest contract offer from management, perpetuating a six-week strike at Bombardier’s plant in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
A strike by 900 workers continues at Bombardier Transportation’s Thunder Bay, Ontario, plant, but the company still moved the first three of 420 Toronto Rocket subway cars for delivery to Canada’s largest city on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014.
Roughly 900 workers at Bombardier Transportation’s Thunder Bay, Ontario, rail production plant walked off the job on Monday, July 14, 2014, following a breakdown in contract talks with management.
An anti-rail citizens coalition has abandoned its legal challenge against Ion light rail transit development in Ontario’s Region of Waterloo, which includes the municipalities of Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge.