Teamsters Canada released a recording of a CN supervisor, a chief rail traffic controller (RTC), ordering a fatigued conductor to continue to work for several hours.
The railroad conductor who according to Teamsters has over 30 years experience repeatedly told the RTC that he and the locomotive engineer were too fatigued and were unfit to operate the train.
The RTC replied by saying that he would like him to bring the train to the nearest crew drop off point.
The incident occurred near Pickering, Ont. on Oct. 19 of last year, the crew would have had to work for several more hours. The conductor ultimately did not move the train and was suspended for 14 days without pay as a result.
