April 8, 2011
VIA Rail and TCRC Reach Tentative Agreement
Montreal, Friday, April 8, 2011 - VIA Rail Canada has announced that a tentative four-year agreement has been reached with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), representing VIA’s locomotive engineers. The agreement must be ratified by union members.
“VIA is pleased that the parties have come to an agreement without any impact on our services,” said Marc Laliberté, VIA’s President and Chief Executive Officer. "I would like to thank VIA’s team and our colleagues in the TCRC leadership for arriving at this agreement. This is good news for our customers, our employees and Canadians”.
The new contract, when ratified, will be effective until December 31, 2014.
About VIA Rail Canada
As Canada’s national rail passenger service, VIA Rail Canada's mandate is to provide efficient and cost-effective passenger transportation to Canadian travelers - in both official languages. Every week VIA operates 503 intercity, transcontinental and regional trains linking 450 communities across its 12,500-kilometre route network. The demand for VIA services is growing as travellers increasingly turn to train travel as a safe and reliable alternative to congested roads and airports. VIA safely transports over four million passengers annually. For more information about VIA, please visit viarail.ca or follow VIA on Twitter at twitter.com/via_rail.
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