http://www.fyouth.com/news/corporate...n-january-2012
In 2003, Hunter Harrison announced that he wanted to fire a bunch of employees to increase shareholder value of CN.# Hunter Harrison and his new management team axed the jobs of safety supervisors, environmental compliance officers and other tenured management personnel.
CN's stock price rose after the mass firings so Hunter kept announcing more and more layoffs.# By 2004, the number of CN employees had declined to 18,500, even though the merged rail company#had become#one of the largest in the world and was#moving more freight and handling more contaminants than ever before.#Under The Hunter,#CN#abandoned unprofitable rail lines in northern and remote regions of Canada and ignored safety obligations, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries to workers. HUNTER SHRUGGED while CN left a legacy of environmental contamination throughout the Canadian wilderness ranging from#contamination of pristine aboriginal lands in Alberta to the abandonment of a PCB facility in North Bay, Ontario. Hunter Harrison demonstrated a villainous disregard for#environmental protection and safety obligations while he ran CN.