MONTREAL, Dec. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR)
(NYSE: CNI) announced today that it has negotiated a tentative
labour agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC)
union that represents locomotive engineers and conductors working
on the company's Northern Quebec Internal Short line.
The four-year agreement would provide wage increases and benefit
improvements to 93 employees. Details of the agreement are being
withheld pending ratification by the affected TCRC members. The
union is expected to announce the results of the ratification vote
by the end of February 2015.
CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) is a true backbone of the economy,
transporting approximately 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 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 on CN, visit the company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN