MONTREAL, Aug. 8, 2017 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:
CNI) has announced that the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference
– Conductors, Trainpersons and Yardpersons (TCRC-CTY) union that
represents the company's conductors and yard crews in Canada has ratified a new collective agreement
with the company.
The three-year agreement retroactive to July 23, 2016, provides wage increases and
benefit improvements to approximately 3,000 conductors.
Mike Cory, CN executive vice-president and chief operating
officer, said: "We are pleased to have completed this agreement
with TCRC-CTY members. This agreement is testament to the benefits
of relationship building and we look forward to continuing to
foster this relationship moving forward. Together, we reached this
agreement without a labour disruption allowing us to continue
providing quality service to our customers."
CN is a true backbone of the economy whose team of approximately
23,000 railroaders transports more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide
range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to
manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of
approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National
Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries –
serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince
Rupert, B.C., Montreal,
Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of
Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis., and
Jackson, Miss., with connections
to all points in North America.
For more information about CN, visit the company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN