Revelstoke Times Review, May 11, 2016

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Wednesday May 11, 2016 Vol. 119, No. 19

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Out in the schools

Revelstoke elementary school students hold up rainbow flags and plaques bearing the school district’s sexual orientation & gender identity policy at an assembly looking at those issues. The Revelstoke School District hosted the Vancouver-based group Out in School for the assembly and a series of workshops that looked at fostering safe spaces for Revelstoke youth. Students learned about the complexities of sexual orientation and gender identity from Brandon Yam and Gavin Somers, who presented a series of videos and answered questions about the topics. ~ Photo by Alex Cooper, Revelstoke Review

CP Rail looking to move crews from Revelstoke to Golden ALEX COOPER

alex.cooper@revelstokereview.com CP Rail is looking at moving workers from Revelstoke to Golden in order to create an extended coal train run that would eliminate crew changes here. “It is the company’s intent to operate coal trains in extended service runs (ESR) between Kamloops, B.C., and Golden, B.C., without the need to change crews at Revelstoke, B.C.,” wrote Chris Clark, the assistant

director of labour relations for CP Rail in a letter to Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union leadership. The move would involve establishing a new home terminal in Golden dedicated to running coal trains to and from Kamloops. It’s a 350 kilometre run. The letter says the change would go into effect on June 20, 2016, though the exact start date could be pushed back if the Teamsters choose to fight the move. It says no jobs would be lost, but does not

say how many positions would be moved out of Revelstoke as a result of the change. Greg Edwards, the Teamster's general chairman for locomotive engineers in western Canada, said the union still has lots of questions about CP Rail's proposal and he is still waiting for many details from CP as to what the changes might mean. “This notice falls completely short of the requirements in our collective agreement provisions for making any type of material change in working conditions," he told the

Review, adding that the timelines set out by CP Rail are "unrealistic." He said they would be issuing a letter in response and that letter would be made public. Sources tell the Review a trip from Golden to Kamloops would take at least 10 hours, however it can sometimes take that long just to make the journey through the mountains. Engineers and conductors are see CP Rail, page 4

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