CP On Strike

[Lenny53]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/cp-rail-employees-on-strike-to-be-ordered-back-to-work-1.2958335

[Blazeman]

That didn't take long to happen. Last one went over a week before Parliament stepped in.

[trainforfun]

Before , when there was a strike the CP Rail engineers were still running the commuter trains on peak hours . This morning in the Montreal area it was like minus 5 F. and the commuter trains were not running on 3 lines that use CP tracks .
A nice way to make friends from their part ...

[delamaize]

 

[Dave Schneider]

So is the strike system wide or just in Canada?

Best wishes, Dave

[learmoia]

So is the strike system wide or just in Canada?

Best wishes, Dave

It was.. and I think it was over last night.  With CP maintence and CN coming to agreements.. there wasn't much traction to holding it out...  From what I saw.. they were trying to get 10 hour shifts and 4 day work weeks with the option to work your 5th start as being called on your day off with a yes or no option..  I think CP said no to 10 hour shifts and they would take 4 day work weeks but no option to work your day off...

The South Park photos nail it!!! FTW  ~Ian

[lock4244]

One of the big bones of contention was (in the opinion of a conductor I spoke to with close to 30 years service) the desire from EHH to have crews work the full 12 hours. Full 12 hours being if you finish your run at 10hrs, you can take a yard engine and switch an industry, or do some otherwise productive work until 12hrs is reached. EHH also wants a removal of any distinction between yard and road assignments. I think it's fairly obvious why the crews would want to go home or on rest after completing their run.

[Puddington]

EHH isn't in this to make CP better; he's in it for the stockholders (read hedge fund) that put him there. Usually there is some mix of "good for the company, good for the investor" long term strategy involved in decision making - not this time EHH has a mission, he will cut, kill or maim whatever he needs to to get to a "market value" number that he's been given and then he will ride off into the sunset with a unit train full of cash, the hedge fund will sell off what's left of the railway and the company, the employees and the nation (s) will be left to figure it out.....