CN served strike notice by TCRC, but company optimistic settlement pos

    News Editors

    MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2005--CN announced today that the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) has informed the company that its 1,750 members at CN plan to strike the railroad in Canada at 0001 hours May 18, 2005.

    CN remains optimistic that it can reach an agreement with the TCRC without labour disruption, although no further negotiations are scheduled. The TCRC represents locomotive engineers.

    CN has contingency plans to maintain core freight operations in the event of a TCRC strike.

    CN has tabled a fair and reasonable offer to the TCRC that provides for improved wages and benefits for its members.

    Canadian National Railway Company 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 cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.



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    Canadian National Railway Company (TSX:CNR) (NYSE:CNI)

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