CN Strikes

[helmsdale]

5 more days...

[rumrocks]

If only Quebec could get a reliable supply from a pipeline, . . . it's always a sign of good management to have plan B in place.

[farmaholic]

If only Quebec could get a reliable supply from a pipeline, . . . it's always a sign of good management to have plan B in place.

Plan "B" should be the railroad, fūcken morons.

[chuckChuck]

Some grain farmers cheer when a CN rail strike dispute shuts down propane deliveries that keep seniors warm in long term care homes? WTF Are you guys that idiotic that you think this will help your case?

That message will certainly make you friends in Ontario and Quebec and help you get some policy changes that benefit western Canada! LOL

[jazz]

Some grain farmers cheer when a CN rail strike dispute shuts down propane deliveries that keep seniors warm in long term care homes? WTF Are you guys that idiotic that you think this will help your case?

That message will certainly make you friends in Ontario and Quebec and help you get some policy changes that benefit western Canada! LOL

Just like people down east cheered when fort Mac burned and pipelines got cancelled and our suicide rate jumped and we got called white supremacists? Stop while I shed a tear.

[chuckChuck]

Just like people down east cheered when fort Mac burned and pipelines got cancelled and our suicide rate jumped and we got called white supremacists? Stop while I shed a tear.

Who cheered when Fort Macmurry burned? Anybody who would do that is also an asshole!

[bucket]

Some grain farmers cheer when a CN rail strike dispute shuts down propane deliveries that keep seniors warm in long term care homes? WTF Are you guys that idiotic that you think this will help your case?

That message will certainly make you friends in Ontario and Quebec and help you get some policy changes that benefit western Canada! LOL

Well. ..those old folk home's should be on solar wind or hydro power not propane....pretty arrogant if the separatist to say he wants no part of an oil state and can't go 5 days without calling Ottawa for help....for propane....

I have no sympathy and the West should be asking for a new deal right now....


I would be serving coffee to the striking union to stay out longer for the greater good of smartening these arrogant easterners up....

[blackpowder]

Don't forget the furnaces still on diesel.

[dmlfarmer]

They nationalized a pipeline ...maybe its time to nationalize a railway again....plenty of albertans would like a job ...

Nationalization will not help. You still have unions to deal with and strikes will still happen. Just because the government replaces a private owner does not solve labor issues. In fact, it probably increases labor unrest and inflates salaries and costs even higher.

No, instead of outlawing strikes or adding more socialism, the government should simply pass a law that for any essential service or for any service for which there is not competition, instead of allowing a strike, any and all negotiation that cannot be settled between parties goes immediately to a jury process whereby both parties present their case before an impartial jury of Canadians chosen at random and who have the binding power to impose the last offer by either party on the other. For example, if a company is offering 1% raise over 2 years and the union is seeking 5% raise over 3 years then each present the reasons for these last offers to the jury and by majority the jury chooses either the 1% over 2 years or 5% over 3 amount and that becomes binding on both parties for the term of the contract. There is no compromise, it is either/or as determined by a jury


There is no arbitration, no strike, no lockouts after regular negotiation has failed. The party that made the most reasonable offer in the view of average Canadians will have "won."

This would stop outlandish demands in the first place and make it more likely that negotiations would result in contracts as no side would want to publicly loss in the negotiation or jury awarded contract.

[bucket]

Nationalization will not help. You still have unions to deal with and strikes will still happen. Just because the government replaces a private owner does not solve labor issues. In fact, it probably increases labor unrest and inflates salaries and costs even higher.

No, instead of outlawing strikes or adding more socialism, the government should simply pass a law that for any essential service or for any service for which there is not competition, instead of allowing a strike, any and all negotiation that cannot be settled between parties goes immediately to a jury process whereby both parties present their case before an impartial jury of Canadians chosen at random and who have the binding power to impose the last offer by either party on the other. For example, if a company is offering 1% raise over 2 years and the union is seeking 5% raise over 3 years then each present the reasons for these last offers to the jury and by majority the jury chooses either the 1% over 2 years or 5% over 3 amount and that becomes binding on both parties for the term of the contract. There is no compromise, it is either/or as determined by a jury


There is no arbitration, no strike, no lockouts after regular negotiation has failed. The party that made the most reasonable offer in the view of average Canadians will have "won."

This would stop outlandish demands in the first place and make it more likely that negotiations would result in contracts as no side would want to publicly loss in the negotiation or jury awarded contract.

But the current railway structure has not looked forward enough to handle our future exports....