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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl I'm not blaming E Hunter Harrison entirely, the rest of the upper CN management has serious problems. For example: Sahme Fahme was quoted as saying "You cannot compromise safety or FRA requirements, but things like 90-day inspections--maybe it's overkill,"Fahme says. Can you do 180 days?If so,it'd increase our locomotive availability." Eventually, strike-related process reviews should net even more significant productivity gains. The railroad could eliminate as many as 1200 jobs during the next year and a half, including 500 by year end. " We learned we didn't need as many people as we thought," says Harrison. Randy [/quote] I havwe to agree this sort of math from top officials is pretty scary. It seems to me that many of the Canadian Railroads have historically been a couple of decades behind the U.S. roads in making some of the efficiency changes already seen here, due largely to differences in the regulatory climate. Problem is that ideas generated by strikes showing how certain tasks may be done over relatively short periods of time by smaller numbers of employees may well not be sustainable over the long term. It will be interesting to see how the CN fares over the next few years as it absorbs all of it's recent acquisitions. LC
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