DULUTH, MN, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - CN
(TSX:CNR)(NYSE:CNI) and the United Transportation Union (UTU) today
announced that UTU-represented employees working on the
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range
Railway Company (DM&IR) have ratified a new 7-year collective
agreement. CN purchased the DM&IR as part of its May 2004 acquisition of the rail and marine
holdings of Great Lakes Transportation LLC.
The new labor pact settles wage and work-rule issues for 74
trainmen for the period ending in September
2012. The agreement replaces the traditional
mileage/rule-based agreement with one based upon hourly wages and
job security. Most of CN's U.S. train and engine employees work
under hourly-rate labor contracts.
The UTU members on the DM&IR are principally involved in
operating CN trains hauling pelletized iron ore in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
CN (TSX: CNR)(NYSE: CNI) - Canadian National Railway Company and
its operating railway subsidiaries - spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans to the Gulf of
Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince
Rupert, B.C., Montreal,
Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key metropolitan areas
of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis.,
Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points
in North America. For more
information on CN, visit the company's website at
http://www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN
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