CN conductors on Northern Quebec Internal Short Line ratify new collective
agreement

MONTREAL, July 29 /CNW Telbec/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:CNI) announced today train conductors represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) on the Company's Northern Quebec Internal Short Line have ratified a new five-year collective agreement.

Retroactive to Dec. 15, 2007, the new labour contract applies to 48 conductors, providing them wage increases and benefit improvements.

CN - Canadian National Railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries - spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key metropolitan areas 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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