NATIONAL – The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, the union representing railroad workers with the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific (CP) railways, is asking employees who suffer from job fatigue to come forward with their stories. The union has launched a new website, RailFatigue.ca, on which workers can submit reports of their experiences. Teamsters has accused CP of preventing its employees from getting enough rest with unpredictable shift schedules and of discouraging them from booking time off due to unfitness (COHSN, Oct. 18). “You go to sleep, you get up and then you are not going to work for another 10 hours, and by then, you get tired,” said an anonymous former CP employee in British Columbia, as quoted on the website. “You are ready to go to sleep, but you have got to go to work.” The site calls the industry’s fatigue problem “a dangerous trend that needs to change” and encourages workers who have “been intimidated into reporting to work fatigued” to document their stories for the union.