“We thank Unifor for working with us during this process,” said Keith Creel, President and CEO of CP. “The ratification of this agreement, especially in time for the new year, is a positive step forward for our mechanical employees, our family of 13,000 cps, our customers and the economy as a whole.” Through cooperation, communication and trust, CP continues to reach long-term agreements on both sides of the border. Unifor represents approximately 1,200 CP mechanical employees responsible for car and locomotive maintenance. The current collective agreement expired on December 31, 2018. This resulted in an agreement of 15 July 1902 recognizing the brotherhoods by the CNR, while the UBRE strikers remained unemployed. [15] At the annual convention of the Dominion Trades and Labour Congress (TLC) in September 1902, delegates from the Manitoba UBRE bitterly condemned the brotherhood leaders, but received no support from the TLC. [15] The strike and TLC`s response increased discontent with TLC and the craft unions and supported the expansion of UBRE and ALU in Western Canada. On August 1, 1902, the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council voted by 35 votes to 5 to put the NRC on its “unfair” list. The strike only formally ended when an agreement was reached on January 24, 1903, but the CNR refused to recognize the UBRE.

[16] At the end of May, the UBRE leadership agreed that it could not win the strike. A confidential agreement was reached on June 12, 1903. It said: “The Brotherhood is completely destroyed in Canada, with the exception of the one in Winnipeg. [35] In mid-April, Frank Rogers, a well-known union leader, was shot dead during a dispute between strikers and CPR agents and later died. The brotherhoods did not send representatives to his funeral procession. [28] After Rogers` death, two men were arrested. One of them was tried and acquitted. Observers said the process was a farce. [22] The UBRE Strike Bulletin merged with the Clarion of Nanaimo and Richard Parmater Pettipiece`s socialist western and appeared on May 8, 1903 as Western Clarion. [29] Pettipiece wrote about the CPR`s use of spies and secret police: “Nowhere else in the British Empire would such a state be possible, and it has rarely been achieved anywhere in the long and painful history of the labor tragedy.” [21] George Estes was arrested in Victoria for inciting the crew of a steamboat to disrupt postal service and was detained for three weeks before the charge was dropped.

[26] The UBRE tried unsuccessfully to take over the organization of the Order of Railroad Telegraphs (ORT) in the South Pacific. Estes has been excluded from the ORT….