MONTREAL, Feb. 18, 2015 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI)
announced today that locomotive engineers and conductors working on
the company's Northern Quebec Internal Short line have ratified a
new collective agreement. The employees are represented by the
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) union.
The four-year agreement provides wage increases and benefit
improvements to 93 employees.
Jim Vena, CN executive vice-president and chief operating
officer, said: "We are pleased to see yet another ratification of a
collective agreement with our unionized employees in this round of
bargaining for CN. By focusing on what matters to our employees, we
were able to reach an amicable agreement with the TCRC, which
represents our running trade employees serving Northern Quebec."
CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting 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 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