April 1, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Unions
(Source: CN press release, March 31, 2019) MONTREAL — CN announced today that new tentative collective agreements have been reached between Unifor Council 4000 and CN. Three collective agreements cover over 2,150 CN employees in Canada including all clerks and...
March 27, 2019 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CN press release, March 26, 2019) MONTREAL — CN will hold its 2019 annual general meeting of shareholders in Montreal on April 30, 2019, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. The meeting will be held at Le Windsor, Windsor Ballroom, 1170 Peel Street,...
March 13, 2019 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Post-Tribune, March 12, 2019) CHICAGO — Efforts to keep railroads from blocking street crossings should focus on Congress, participants at a Northwest Indiana Rail Crossing Task Force meeting said. State legislation will almost certainly be overruled by...
March 11, 2019 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Local Memphis, March 8, 2019) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A local former executive of Canadian National Railway Company filed a discrimination lawsuit against his former employer. Tracy Miller of Memphis filed the complaint in the Western District of Tennessee Western...
February 25, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Drone DJ, February 22, 2019) In western Manitoba, Canada, a train carrying crude oil derailed early Saturday morning and created an oil spill. CN Rail has not yet disclosed how much oil had leaked from the 37-car-wreckage. So two friends took it upon...
February 22, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, February 21, 2019) ST. LAZARE, Man. — CN is still tallying up the amount of oil spilled in a train derailment on a ranch in western Manitoba. The Transportation Safety Board has said 37 of 110 railcars went off the tracks early Saturday near...
February 20, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 19, 2019) CALGARY — The Alberta government has signed contracts with Canadian National and Canadian Pacific to lease 4,400 rail cars to take oilsands crude to American and international markets. The first shipments of 20,000 barrels per day...
February 15, 2019 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, February 14, 2019) VANCOUVER — The federal government, CN Rail and the body that oversees trade through Canada’s busiest port have signed an agreement allowing CN to twin part of an existing railway track to move more cargo and increase trade...
February 7, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Progressive Railroading, February 6, 2019) CN employees who are members of United Steelworkers Local 2004 (USW) have approved a new five-year contract, the union and Class I announced yesterday. Full story: Progressive Railroading
January 31, 2019 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Canadian National Railway press release, January 29, 2019) MONTREAL — CN announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the repurchase of its shares under a new normal course issuer bid (Bid) and approved an 18 per cent increase in the 2019 dividend...
