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CN receives strike notice from Canadian conductors’ union
I don’t mean to be blunt but Mr guse or whatever your name is have you ever worked for a job that has a union? If you don’t understand the logics of why they are striking you should just keep quiet I wouldn’t mind striking if it means that my job is trying to change the HOS that’s effecting not only the employees but putting other people lives in jeopardy no one wants a fatigued employee behind the controls of a locomotive or switching out cars so until you have felt what it’s like to be a fatigued railroad worker shut up about how the unions handle their members
Dedrick, please the old cunard that if you never have done the job, don’t complain…please…I love Jeffery Guse because he gets under the skin of the know it all’s.
I find it very strange the railroads don’t take a page out of the trucking companies playbook and simply tell the union on Friday, we are shutting down. Then on Monday, start up without the union, hiring any former employee willing to work without the union, for the same compensation. Which is pretty much how the trucking industry kicked the Teamsters to the curb and have been allowing their non-union drivers to kick any remaining Teamsters to the curb at every opportunity. Railroads would be better able to compete if they didn’t cave in to every silly demand of the union thugs.
“Trainpersons”…I freakin’ can’t believe it. I am for whichever side does not refer to the 99% of men with such a pathetic politically correct term,
If this was 1930 railroading I would see the need for unions. But railroading sounds like a pretty good deal these days.
Also, the union employees on other RR’s might refuse to handle cars interchanged from the RR which did that.
At least in public these two parties look like they’re willing to gamble. Place your bets on the feds with legislation to end it. The easy way out that satisfies no one.
Good to see men and union officers stand up when necessary.As a retired teamster since Jan 1,1986 I know all too well the benefits of a strong union.
Mr. Guse, there are numerous unions at CN. If you tried to kick one to the curb. The rest would walkout.
The Federal Government will send them back to work and settle the job action by several different means.
Stick it to CN, Rex Beatty! It’s time to settle the scores from 2006.
Train crew rest is sacrosanct. “Work now, grieve later” is unacceptable American behaviour.
Canadians can be off the train after ten hours on duty. There is plenty of arbitration and case law to back it up. Fight them tooth and nail!
You don’t have any concept of how nice working for a railroad under union representation is, until you don’t. If ever there were an industry where a union was still needed, it is railroading. I don’t really think every craft needs one, but for SURE transportation and engineering, and probably some mechanical. You people are high if you think it doesn’t help to have them there in a railroad capacity. We’d still be working 16 hour days and sleeping in cabooses and dorms if it weren’t for them. I’ll take my van to the hotel for 10+ hours off, thanks.