Commute By Jet?

[Dieter]

Yes, if you are an engineer, signal or track maintainer for Canadian National in Canada, you can commute by jet, if you can believe it!

CN is so hard-up for workers in Ontario, they have agreed to fly in workers from as far away as Moncton and put them up in a hotel and pay for a car and food. This has been going on for months.

Workers work for a week, then come home for five days, then fly back out. The only thing CN doesn't pay for is your gas back and forth from where you live to the airport, nor long term parking at the airport. After everything else they pay, can you believe that?

The story I heard is, that conditions are so bad they can't keep employees in Ontario. These long distance commuters are dispatched all over the Province while on duty, as well. They're not confined to one sub or location.

Is this happening in other parts of Canada?

Dieter.

[AmtrakFan]

Maybe Hunter Harrison would be better off putting some money into Capital Spending like increase his current $1.5 Billion Budget so the derailments can go down.

[Dieter]

Perhaps if they stopped intimidating people with layoffs, cutbacks, downsizing and repeated threats of relocating their job 2000 miles away, they wouldn't have this problem.

Dieter.

[Dieter]

OK, it's now January 6th, 2006.

FYI, the situation remains unchanged for one factor. According to what I've heard, CN is even more desperate for people NOW than during the summer of 2005.

Anybody want to work for CN in Ontario? It might be your ticket to ending up out West!

Dieter.