CN Reaches Tentative Labour Agreement with United Steelworkers.MONTREAL -- 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 that it has signed a tentative labour agreement with the United Steelworkers of America, the union representing approximately 2,250 employees who maintain and repair CN's track, bridges and structures in Canada. Details of the new agreement, covering the period from Jan. 1, 2004, to Dec. 31, 2007, are being withheld pending ratification. In general, the agreement provides for increased wages and improved benefits. In the latest round of labour negotiations in Canada, CN has renewed agreements with the section of the United Transportation Union (UTU) representing brakemen and conductors on the company's Northern Quebec Territory (NQT); 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. ; the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference/Rail Traffic Controllers; and the Canadian National Railways Police Association. CN remains in negotiations in Canada with the national UTU body outside the NQT; the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference representing locomotive engineers; and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union which represents workers in the electrical industry in the United States and Canada, particularly electricians, or Inside Wiremen, in the construction industry and linemen and other employees of public , whose members maintain and repair signals and communications equipment. 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. www.cn.ca |
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