CN locomotive engineers and conductors in eastern Quebec, northeastern New
Brunswick ratify new collective agreement

MONTREAL, Oct. 27 /CNW Telbec/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:CNI) announced today that locomotive engineers and conductors who work on its rail lines in eastern Quebec and northeastern New Brunswick have ratified a new collective labour agreement.

The new agreement, in effect through Dec. 31, 2011, pays employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference an hourly rate, with a wage increase to take effect Jan. 1, 2011.

Flexible work rules -- similar to those in effect on CN's Northern Quebec Internal Short Line -- apply to 38 engineers and conductors based at Mont Joli, Que., and Campbellton, Bathurst and Miramichi, N.B.

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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