This post brackets some of my original video from Decades ago about the subject: ARE YOU SURE THAT IT WAS OK, I AM BEING OVERSENSITIVE OR ECCENTRIC TO HAVING CONTRACTED FOR AND AGREED TO BY ALL, I WOULD THINK, WORK CONDITIONS AND OUT OF WORK PROTECTIONS AND OTHER AGREEMENTS NOT HONORED. CAN THEY BLAB AND TAKE YOUR MONEY AND NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WHEN YOUR BENEFIT BECAME DUE

 

ARE YOU SURE THAT IT WAS OK, AM I OVERSENSITIVE OR ECCENTRIC TO HAVING CONTRACTED FOR AND AGREED TO BY ALL, I WOULD THINK, WORK CONDITIONS AND OUT OF WORK PROTECTIONS AND OTHER AGREEMENTS NOT HONORED? CAN THEY BLAB AND TAKE YOUR MONEY AND NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WHEN YOUR BENEFIT BECAME DUE?

MANY UNEXPECTED FAILURES TO FOLLOW THROUGH AND HONOR AGREEMENTS HAVE DIMINISHED MY LIFE, CREATING A LOT OF POVERTY AND TO HORRIBLE WORKING CONDITIONS WHICH I HAD NOT AGREED TO.

AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILROAD, AGREEMENTS TO WORK IN 1963, AT A SPECIFIC EMPLOYMENT WERE BROKEN. I SIGNED UP FOR SURVEY WORK AND I WAS SENT TO A CEMENT GROUTING GANG INSTEAD.

TWO YEARS IN A ROW, BETWEEN UNIVERSITY SEMESTERS, I WAS PROMISED, BY THE CNR RECRUITER, TO HAVE MOTEL ACCOMMODATION AND RESTAURANT MEALS PROVIDED AT NO COST TO ME AND I WAS PROVIDED ACCOMMODATION IN BUNK CARS INSTEAD. 

I HAD BEEN PENNILESS AT UNIVERSITY AND I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING RESTAURANT MEALS, I HAD NEVER HAD THEM AND I WAS DROOLING AT THE PROSPECT OF PAID FOR RESTAURANT MEALS A MOTEL ROOM AND SMALL TOWN GIRLS. IN NEW BRUNSWICK, IN 1963, EVERY MAIN STREET HAD A MOVIE THEATER. I HAD ONLY BEEN TO A MOVIE THEATER ONCE.

**************LATER, FAR FROM NB, IN BC************

I WAS FUNCTIONING PERFECTLY AS A CN YARD FOREMAN IN 1970. I WAS SLAMMED IN A CAR ACCIDENT AS A PASSENGER. I WAS TOTALLY PARALYZED. NOTHING PREPARED ME FOR BEING DENIED MY PAID FOR EVERY CHEQUE:

WHAT WAS EVEN MORE UNBELIEVABLE WAS THAT I, 24 YEARS OLD WITH 7 YEARS AS A CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILROAD EMPLOYEE HAD AN APPOINTMENT AT THE UNION OFFICE WITH THE UNION REPRESENTATIVES AND THEY TOLD ME:

THEY WERE GOING TO "SIT THIS ONE OUT", "THIS ONE" BEING MY REQUEST FOR AID TO OBTAIN MY OUT OF WORK INSURANCE. I WAS A THIRD GENERATION CNR EMPLOYEE, THIS BEHAVIOR WAS UNHEARD OF AT CANADIAN NATIONAL.