(CN issued the following news release on January 23.)
MONTREAL — CN announced today it has successfully negotiated three tentative collective agreements with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union.
Details of the new three-year labour contracts, replacing ones that expired Dec. 31, 2003, are being withheld pending ratification by approximately 5,000 CAW members.
The tentative agreements, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2004, apply to CN’s shopcraft forces, clerical workers and intermodal yard employees.
CN is in active negotiations with six other Canadian unions whose contracts also expired at the end of last year. Those unions represent about 8,500 employees.
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, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.