TRAINMEN PROTEST AGAINST PUBLIC SERVICE AD

The Teamsters Rail Conference, which represents 70,000 locomotive engineers trainmen and maintenance workers, has expressed outrage at a public service message airing for the Environmental Defense Organization. It shows a child standing on a railroad track with a train bearing down on her. (The apparent message is that global warming will run us down unless action is taken.) John Tolman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a unit of the Teamsters Rail Conference, urged members of the union on Wednesday to contact Environmental Defense. "Let them know you want the ad pulled from the airwaves. There are other more creative ways to communicate this message, and it should not be done at the expense of sensationalizing a tragedy."

29/03/2007