REGINA, April 25, 2017
/PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today the
naming of its national employee training centre in Winnipeg after former president and chief
executive officer Claude
Mongeau.
"Under Claude's leadership, we built two state-of-the-art
employee training centres where a new generation of railroaders
learn the skills they need for a safe and successful career at CN,"
said Luc Jobin, president and chief
executive officer. "Claude valued our commitment to safety above
all and the training centres are vital in instilling and
maintaining that strong commitment to safety in our thousands of
new railroaders as well as veteran employees.
"The training centres and their part in advancing CN's goal to
become the safest railway in North
America are a major part of Claude's enduring legacy," Jobin
added.
Mongeau joined CN in 1994, was the company's chief financial
officer for 11 years, and president and chief executive officer
from 2010 until he stepped down for health reasons at the end of
June 2016.
"I am truly honoured that the Winnipeg National Training Centre
will bear my name as this facility is a cornerstone of CN's
commitment to the safety of its people, customers and communities,"
said Mongeau. "Safety is a key value at CN and our industry-leading
training centres are the embodiment of that
commitment."
Opened in 2014, the CN Claude Mongeau National Training Centre
campus in Winnipeg provides
consistent, quality training with a modern curriculum, coupled with
skilled instructors, for jobs ranging from conductor to track
maintainer, and car mechanic to supervisor. Employees receive
hands-on training in learning laboratories with equipment such as
locomotive, crane, and signals and communication simulators.
Outdoor labs with dedicated rolling stock and other equipment for
field training are also appreciated by the employees attending the
facilities.
The Winnipeg centre hosts
employees from across Canada,
while the U.S. training center located in suburban Chicago accommodates employees from across the
United States. Since the training campuses opened, more than
15,000 CN employees have received training, and through the CN
Campus Partnership Program, more than 200 representatives of CN
customers have taken courses in basic rail safety and the
requirements of safe operations.
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 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