MONTREAL — Canadian National announced it has negotiated a tentative new three-year labour contract with the United Transportation Union (UTU) in Canada.
UTU members will vote on the contact in early 2002.
CN said it is also finalizing a new collective agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) that will be voted on early next year.
Details of the two pacts are being withheld pending final union approvals.
The UTU represents about 2,700 train service employees on CN’s Canadian network, while the BLE represents about 1,900 CN locomotive engineers in Canada.
CN has already secured new three-year collective agreements with four unions representing more than 8,100 of its 13,000 unionized employees in Canada. CN is optimistic it can soon reach a new labour agreement with the 240-member Rail Canada Traffic Controllers union.
Canadian National Railway Company 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 cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.