CN Reaches Tentative Collective Agreements With CAW.Business Editors MONTREAL, Quebec--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2004 CN (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNI (1) (Certified NetWare Instructor) See Novell certification. (2) (Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, www.cni.org) A partnership of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE and EDUCOM, founded in 1990. ) (TSX:CNR) announced today it has successfully negotiated three tentative collective agreements with the Canadian Auto Workers The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW; formally the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada) is one of Canada's largest and highest profile trade unions. (CAW) union. Details of the new three-year labour contracts, replacing ones that expired Dec. 31, 2003, are being withheld pending ratification by approximately 5,000 CAW members. The tentative agreements, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2004, apply to CN's shopcraft forces, clerical workers and intermodal yard employees. CN is in active negotiations with six other Canadian unions whose contracts also expired at the end of last year. Those unions represent about 8,500 employees. Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. |
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