CN, police union in Canada reach tentative agreement on new labour contract

MONTREAL, Jan. 15, 2018 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) and the Canadian National Railway Police Association (CNRPA) announced today that the parties have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract.

Details of the agreement, which covers CN police officers across Canada, are being withheld pending ratification, which is expected by Feb. 1.

CN is a true backbone of the economy whose team of approximately 23,000 railroaders transports more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN ? Canadian National Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries ? serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information about CN, visit the Company's website at www.cn.ca. 

SOURCE CN