CN train conductors in Canada ratify three-year labour contract agreements

MONTREAL, Nov. 16 /CNW Telbec/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:CNI) announced today that members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference - Conductors, Trainmen and Yardmen (TCRC-CTY) have ratified four new collective agreements with the Company.

The three-year labour contracts for approximately 2,700 CN conductors, yard-persons and traffic coordinators are retroactive to July 23, 2010, and will provide TCRC-CTY members wage increases and improvements in benefits.

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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