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re: Somebody Explain The Potential Rail Strike
Posted on 9/13/22 at 6:09 pm to doublecutter
Posted on 9/13/22 at 6:09 pm to doublecutter
"that career afforded him and family a great living standard. He retired on a pretty lucrative RR pension"
this is mostly still intact, however, the crews have dropped from 5 to 2 person, trains are up to 15,000' in length, and the RR didn't have attendance/availability policies until 2006-07 ish, Hell, some guys didn't work enough to qualify for health insurance or vac, I understand why the RR wanted to purge that group. But they just kept going and cutting more and more, we tried to "selfhelp/strike" several times, but it was deemed a minor dispute by fed judges and sent back for negotiations... the RR just implemented it, and that was that..
We make ok money, but having to work 200 plus hours a month, ON CALL, plus the away from home time, another 100-150 is too much...
this is mostly still intact, however, the crews have dropped from 5 to 2 person, trains are up to 15,000' in length, and the RR didn't have attendance/availability policies until 2006-07 ish, Hell, some guys didn't work enough to qualify for health insurance or vac, I understand why the RR wanted to purge that group. But they just kept going and cutting more and more, we tried to "selfhelp/strike" several times, but it was deemed a minor dispute by fed judges and sent back for negotiations... the RR just implemented it, and that was that..
We make ok money, but having to work 200 plus hours a month, ON CALL, plus the away from home time, another 100-150 is too much...
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Posted on 9/14/22 at 5:21 am to finkle
Disregard, question was previously answered on pg 2
This post was edited on 9/14/22 at 5:25 am
Posted on 9/14/22 at 8:52 am to finkle
quote:
We make ok money, but having to work 200 plus hours a month, ON CALL, plus the away from home time, another 100-150 is too much...
What were the hours expectations like when you hired on at the RR?
I agree those hours could suck.
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