Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters union representing 1,700 striking Canadian locomotive engineers reached a contract agreement today just as Parliament was preparing to force the engineers back to work.

Under the terms of the agreement, the company will not proceed with work rule changes announced last week, the union will end its strike, and the parties will finalize a new collective agreement with the assistance of federal mediators and an arbitratorappointed by the Minister of Labour.

View News Release from the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Labour.