OREANDA-NEWS. CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that it has reached tentative collective agreements with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference - Conductors, Trainpersons and Yardpersons (TCRC-CTY).

The TCRC-CTY represents approximately 3,000 CN train conductors, trainpersons, yardpersons and traffic coordinators on CN's network in Canada.

Details of the three-year labour contracts are being withheld pending ratification by the union's membership. The TCRC-CTY's current contracts expired July 22, 2013.

CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting approximately CAD 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.