Canada

After nationalizing the rails and ports. I mean, if they're that important to the economy, and all.

Stop fucking getting involved!!!!!

These companies are not negotiating because they know the government will intervene. They ARE NOT negotiating in good faith.

Yes please. I'm a railway worker. When it comes to arbitration, they reference the wages of the only other railway to justify shotty pay increases. 2 years later, arbitration steps in for them and references our shitty wages are justification to fuck them. We're in a feedback loop...or a death spiral. Oh, and until it was mandated by the federal government a few years ago, we had 0 sick days, 0 personal days, 0 floater days etc... small vacation only. Very little quality of life. Always travelling, always on call. No wonder they can't keep employees.

From what I recall hearing about the job from the one CN conductor I knew, it sounded like what they really need is some work life balance provisions. The on call requirements that guy put up with were nuts.

Now? This been going on for decades. Governments of both red and blue stripes have done various kinds of union busting both federally and privincially. We still have more unions left than say the US but shit ain't looking up in the status quo.