UTU Members on CN's Northern Quebec Territory Ratify New Collective Agreement.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) and the United Transportation Union (UTU) announced today the ratification of a new collective agreement by UTU members working on the railway's 1,200-mile Northern Quebec Territory (NQT). The three-year agreement provides for annual pay increases of three per cent and preserves flexible work practices and hourly pay for UTU members. The agreement, effective Dec. 15, 2004, also improves employee benefits. CN has renewed collective agreement with four labour organizations in Canada this year. It remains in negotiations with the UTU national body outside the NQT, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference unit representing locomotive engineers, the United Steelworkers union representing track maintenance employees, 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 . 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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