Canadian labour board reviewing essential service implications of possible CN strikes, lockouts.MONTREAL -- CN optimistic about settlements with three unions CN (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNI) (TSX:CNR) said today the Canada Industrial Relations Board The main responsibility of the CIRB is to interprete and administer the Industrial Relations and Occupational Health and Safety sections of the Canadian Labour Code. The CIRB also contributes to promote effect industrial relations to any work, undertaking or business that falls under the (CIRB CIRB Centre D'informatique Pour La Région Bruxelloise (French) CIRB Canada Industrial Relations Board CIRB Construction Industry Research Board CIRB Compensation Insurance Rating Board CIRB Crop Insurance Research Bureau ) has been asked by the Canadian government to determine whether specific rail services should be maintained in Canada in the event of strikes or lockouts involving three of the company's unions. During the CIRB determination process, CN will continue to bargain in Canada with the United Transportation Union (UTU), representing 2,520 brakemen and conductors; the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents 1,750 locomotive engineers; and the 630-member 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 (IBEW). The company remains optimistic settlements can be reached without labour disruption. CN is cooperating fully with the CIRB, whose essential services review was requested by the Honourable Joe Fontana, Minister of Labour. Until the CIRB renders its decision on essential services, any right to strike or lockout is suspended. After the board's determination, at least 72 hours' strike or lockout notice would be required prior to any legal strike or lockout. 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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