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Even as a veteran reader of hundreds of examples of liberal lunacy, I found this case exceptionally nutty and disturbing. After a Quebec truck driver, was arrested after causing an accident while driving drunk in Pennsylvania (blood alcohol 0.18, more than twice the legal limit), the trucking company fired her.
Then astonishingly, in a move both crazy and dangerous, a liberal judge and the drivers union (Teamsters Canada) united to get the driver REINSTATED. Whaaat? What were they thinking ?
They were thinking thoughts infected with liberalitis. Note the words written in blue italics. The judge, Hughgette April, speaking of the driver, said her drinking was the result of a disability — alcoholism — and trucking company Groupe Robert, should have made a reasonable accommodation for her.
The judge said there is no evidence Groupe Robert asked or verified whether their troubled employee suffered from alcoholism.
The driver told the arbitrator (judge) the company could have installed an alcohol testing device in her truck after the crash, or found other work for her. Well, if the company HAD installed an alcohol testing device in her truck, then after 9 beers, it would have been apparent she had been drunk driving, and thus would have been fired.
There is a collective agreement between the company and the union representing drivers that is clear: The penalty for drinking and driving is immediate termination of employment. Yet the union still identifies the driver as a victim, suffering from a disability (alcoholism).
What makes this case so both crazy and disturbing, is how all of the judge and union's attention and sympathy is to this criminal driver,and not to the real victim (the trucking company, whose truck was damaged), or very potentially to other drivers on the road, who could have been killed.
There have been single accidents with monster-sized trucks like this, that involved 40-50 vehicles, and a dozen people killed including 2 whole families, yet all the judge and union can think about is this "poor disabled" criminal driver. Not a thought about PROTECTION of the public. Pheeeew!!
So now this driver is reinstated, back on the road, chugging down her 6 packs, and endangering everyone on the road around her (YOU maybe) .
Then astonishingly, in a move both crazy and dangerous, a liberal judge and the drivers union (Teamsters Canada) united to get the driver REINSTATED. Whaaat? What were they thinking ?
They were thinking thoughts infected with liberalitis. Note the words written in blue italics. The judge, Hughgette April, speaking of the driver, said her drinking was the result of a disability — alcoholism — and trucking company Groupe Robert, should have made a reasonable accommodation for her.
The judge said there is no evidence Groupe Robert asked or verified whether their troubled employee suffered from alcoholism.
The driver told the arbitrator (judge) the company could have installed an alcohol testing device in her truck after the crash, or found other work for her. Well, if the company HAD installed an alcohol testing device in her truck, then after 9 beers, it would have been apparent she had been drunk driving, and thus would have been fired.
There is a collective agreement between the company and the union representing drivers that is clear: The penalty for drinking and driving is immediate termination of employment. Yet the union still identifies the driver as a victim, suffering from a disability (alcoholism).
What makes this case so both crazy and disturbing, is how all of the judge and union's attention and sympathy is to this criminal driver,and not to the real victim (the trucking company, whose truck was damaged), or very potentially to other drivers on the road, who could have been killed.
There have been single accidents with monster-sized trucks like this, that involved 40-50 vehicles, and a dozen people killed including 2 whole families, yet all the judge and union can think about is this "poor disabled" criminal driver. Not a thought about PROTECTION of the public. Pheeeew!!
So now this driver is reinstated, back on the road, chugging down her 6 packs, and endangering everyone on the road around her (YOU maybe) .
https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Groupe-Robert-truck.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=1200
Quebec trucking company ordered to reinstate driver fired for drinking and driving
MONTREAL - A Quebec trucking company has been ordered to reinstate a driver who was fired after she drank at least nine beers before she lost control of her truck on a Pennsylvania highway.
www.thestar.com
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