Canada

Photo:  CN.ca

CN announced today it has reached a tentative agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council 11 to renew the labour contract for approximately 700 CN signals and communications employees in Canada.

Details of the agreement - negotiated prior to the expiry of the current contract on Dec. 31 -- are being withheld pending ratification by the union's membership. CN expects to hear the results of the union's ratification vote before the end of January 2013.

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, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.

For more information on CN, visit the company's website.