ACTIVIST 'HB'

Brothers and Sisters,

I just found out something today; the company is trying to employee about 100 plus, new employees (drivers) within a 12 month period.
  On top of that, the training schedule has been cut back from 9 weeks to 6 weeks, and they are out on their own (line training or what not).  Training class size has doubled and ballooned up to 24 new hires, per class.  This is an alarming trend being set in motion.  1. There have been new trainers hired to teach them.  2. There is less, “behind the wheel” training than it used to be.  3. The confidence in driving is at an all-time low with the new hires.  4.  Line trainers are not equipped to train the new hires, in proper techniques that we employee “in-service”.  This is not fair for them, us or the general public.

“WHY”, why do we need to speed up training so much so that the quality of operators goes down???  One theory:  there may be a mass of operators retiring in the next year and they are getting ready for that.  Another theory:  they are trying to block any move that they union might make, in a contract dispute.  Either way, this is unacceptable, putting the general public at risk, to try thwart the union is insane if the latter is true.  Imagine the risk associated with an inexperienced operator who doesn’t have the quality time behind the wheel; accidents, assaults and other tragedies, all go up.

I thought this company was all about safety and service, I thought wrong.  Did anyone think David Sale would have approved this move of training new operators?

HB.