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To: kidl who wrote (1239)	7/26/2009 4:31:18 PM
From: Rocket Red	Respond to of 233883

I say party on now :)))))))

To: kidl who wrote (1239)	7/26/2009 4:36:15 PM
From: heinz44	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 233883

I thought we just had that the past 3 weeks

To: kidl who wrote (1239)	7/26/2009 4:47:17 PM
From: Chunger	Respond to of 233883

Kinda hoping to find entry to add more myself...Like i don't have enough already! However the good news here is that i used available cash to add EVG on the pullback... :)))

To: kidl who wrote (1239)	7/26/2009 4:59:45 PM
From: Rocket Red	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 233883

TOP STORY Via Rail service to resume Sunday evening Via Rail Canada says passenger trains will be running again later today and full service will be restored by Monday morning, after the company and its engineers agreed to seek binding arbitration. 26/07/2009 2:28:37 PM View more Sympatico / MSN videos A Via Rail train sits idle in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday, July 24, 2009. The company will being running trains again late Sunday and restore full service by Monday morning. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS) CTV.ca News Staff Via's 340 unionized locomotive engineers walked off the job Friday afternoon, after a noon deadline passed without a new contract. Early Sunday morning, less than 48 hours after the strike began, the company and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) issued a joint statement announcing an agreement to enter into binding arbitration to end the strike. "The process proposed by the mediator will allow the parties to resolve outstanding issues and, most importantly, will get Canada's passenger rail service up and running," said Paul Cote, Via's President and Chief Executive Officer. According to a travel advisory on the company's website, 12 trains will operate Sunday evening: five originating in Montreal, six in Toronto and one train from Niagara Falls to Toronto. Full service will resume on most routes by Monday morning. Via and the TCRC union had been engaged in intense talks all week in an attempt to prevent a strike. However, talks broke down late Thursday night. The 343 engineers have been without a contract since Dec. 31, 2006. Their key demands have been improvements in their work schedules and in the training of new engineers. Via spokesperson Malcolm Andrews told reporters Sunday that the company and the union have agreed on a list of outstanding issues to be submitted to the arbitrator, who will rule on them in the coming weeks. TCRC President Dan Shewchuk said the union agreed to go to arbitration because it believed "there was no possible agreement in the short term." "The strike may have lasted for weeks or months," Shewchuk said in a statement. "The decision to go on strike was not an easy decision but we had to do something to motivate the employer and get the process moving." On Saturday, Via Rail issued layoff notices to about 2,000 unionized employees due the engineers' strike. Those people, who work on trains, in stations and in maintenance centres, have been called back to work, Andrews said. The strike threatened to disrupt thousands of Canadians' summer vacation plans. Via carries nearly 12,000 passengers each day in Canada in the summer months. As much as 85 per cent of business is between Quebec City and Windsor, Ont. Passengers who missed their trains the past two days can receive refunds for any unused tickets, according to a statement on the company's website. Via will make another announcement soon about "innovative and tangible" ways it plans to apologize to customers for wreaking havoc on their travel plans, Andrews said. "We are incredibly sorry for any inconvenience and we apologize to our customers for the inconvenience that they have had to undergo for the past several days," Andrews said. Via's last strike occurred in 1995 and lasted for nine days, Andrews told CTV.ca on Saturday. He noted that traffic was down this summer compared to 2008's busy tourist season. Print this page Share this page digg.com Windows Live Spaces Facebook StumbleUpon RELATED LINKS