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Originally Posted by Zarley
Why wouldn't the train engineer arrange to have the replacement meet him at a station further along the line in the northwest?
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Originally Posted by sleepingmoose
I can't imagine even the union would condone this type of reaction - it puts a bad light on all their members, and would be a hard position to defend. I'm sure they'd rather he kept driving and complained after the fact.
Notice the driver said his 'shift' 12 hours, but not that he had been driving for that long.
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The right to refuse unsafe work is law under Section 35 of the OH&S Act, it's not just a union rule. If you feel that you are being asked to perform unsafe work, you don't tell your supervision and then keep doing the work. You stop working and tell your supervisor. At that point, they have to investigate and eliminate the danger. So stopping the train in a safe location and calling dispatch is the correct thing to do.
There are also criminal charges that come into play if they tell him to keep going and an accident happens.