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The bargaining committees met with representatives from CN and CN Transportation Ltd. in Montreal to formally open negotiations on the Council’s five collective agreements; CN Agreement 5.1, CN Agreement 5.1 Supplemental (Intermodal), CN Agreement 5.4, CN Savage Alberta Railway and the CNTL Collective Agreement. These agreements cover the 3,270 Unifor members of Council 4000 from across Canada.
“Our hard working rail workers have made CN the profitable company that it is today and we will be seeking their fair share in wages and benefits in these negotiations,” said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President.
Proposals were exchanged and more dates for negotiations are tentatively scheduled to start the week of February 4, 2019. All five collective agreements expire on March 31, 2019.
The four Unifor Bargaining Committees of the Council are united and determined to bargain the best agreements possible. We would like to assure our members that we will work diligently on your behalf to secure gains in your work rules, wages and benefits.
To this end, we do not bargain in public and we will use the RailLINE and the Council 4000 website (www.unifor4000.com) and this bargaining pages along our social media sites, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to update you as often as possible.
“We are bargaining strategically together to address the needs of our members who are the driving force behind CN’s continued record setting profits.” said Dave Kissack, President of Unifor National Council 4000.
