Earliest Teamsters could strike is Tuesday
morning
MONTREAL, May 27, 2017 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI)
said today that the Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference –
Conductors, Trainpersons and Yardpersons (TCRC-CTY), which
represents approximately 3,000 CN conductors and yard operations
employees in Canada, has given the
company a 72-hour notice of its intention to strike as of 0400
hours Eastern Daylight Time on May 30,
2017.
Mike Cory, executive
vice-president and chief operating officer of CN, said: "We
continue to negotiate in good faith with the assistance of a
federally-appointed mediator in order to reach a fair agreement
before the strike deadline. We are also offering to resolve our
differences through binding arbitration with a neutral arbitrator.
We remain optimistic that we can reach an agreement without a
labour disruption."
CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting 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 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 on CN, visit the Company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN