MONTREAL, March 16, 2015 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:
CNI) announced today that members of the Unifor union have ratified
the clerical/intermodal, Savage Alberta Railway, excavator-operator
and CNTL owner-operator collective agreements. The Company is
awaiting the results from the mechanical bargaining unit
represented by Unifor Local 100R.
Unifor represents 4,800 CN employees in four bargaining units at
CN – clerical/intermodal; mechanical; CNTL truck owner-operators;
and excavator-operators.
The clerical/intermodal, CNTL and excavator-operators agreements
which were ratified all have a 51-month term.
Jim Vena, CN executive vice-president and chief operating
officer, said: "We are pleased to see the ratification of
these labour agreements by Unifor members. The deals were amicably
negotiated and are good for CN and its employees."
These agreements provide wage and benefit improvements and
revise work rules to improve service and productivity.
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