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Theres a process and its been going on for several months. If contract isn’t ratified they finally will be able to strike per the rules of the railway labor act.
A friend of mine was trying to explain it to me the other day at top golf, he drives trains. After a few beers I forgot most of it
That’s how the medical field works (on call anyways). Pretty sure LEOs and EMS are the same.
Seems like time for our transportation secretary to go on 3 months maternity leave with his husband.How a railroad strike could send food prices soaring
As soon as next week, 115,000 freight rail workers could walk out if they cannot reach a new contract with railroads, potentially shutting down the national rail network that transports 20 percent …
You should be thanking him, it helps sell MRE’s
Are you at least getting 1.5-2x pay in that scenario? I’m sure it’s still not worth it when you’re missing birthdays, vacations etc.
Not sure just what your asking. No pay for being on call, I dont get paid extra for working nights weekends or holidays. Yes i have vaction time which is something else they have made really hard to use. They would rather pay us for it than allow us to take it. Thet 24% sounds great but its not 24% becaue they are increasing how much i have to pay for my INS. so really its more like 15% over 5 years. Mean while the bosses got 39% over 2 years. There is a lot of other things but you wouldnt understand them. In my 25 years they comapny has refused to pay me over a 100k for made up bs. Honetly i have never seen any company treat people so poorly. Id quit but im so close to the 30 year finish line. i want my 30% per year i ve been puting into the retirement. Once i do i will flip them the bird for sure.
Sorry I wasn’t trying to be cryptic.
They don't call it getting railroaded for nothing!
Great for the pay increase, crazy that they have to be on call for 12 hour shifts and within 1 hour of the yard, no down time for family or recharging, not to get political but with all these able body lazy fucks suckling off the GOV teet and sitting on their asses at home vs working its a shame we have such a employee shortage causing all these issues.
Amazing that they have enough people signing up that they could fire you that quickly.
The pay’s not bad
Thats the thing they dont. They are causing these probelms on purpuse to force the govement to allow them to reduce crew size to one person.
Why? Is it THAT low-margin of a business that this kind of petty shit matters, one extra person on train moving thousands of tons of goods?! A ship has dozens of crew..
Nope, they make record profits every year. BNSF is the 3 most profitable company Warren B ownes.
It’s really not that great tho either.
As he said it’s not about people it’s about their desire for less people while trying to look like the victim to the FRA as well Congress.
Record profits while bitching about the costs of having the employees that do the work, and the miserable hours.
Sounds like your on call status should be paid more like a stand by not on call. By that im saying if your phone rings and you HAVE to take the call that doesnt really sound like on call to me i read that as stand by and you should be getting paid. Our contract pays half time for stand by pay. If its an option to take the call that sounds like on call which no pay should be rendered sounds fair to me.
I would agree with your definition of " on call " versus standby " . In the elevator trade we work a normal 8.5 hour day but are on call for the 24 hour period unpaid unless we get a call . The state has determined that being on call does not allow for the company to keep me in a area our have a garunteed response time . Those 2 criteria would change it to being on standby . Granted the line is blurred and that is a state law not federal which I'm sure the rail road would fall under . 30 and out sounds really nice too . We our considered early at 58 years old . Good luck on the barging for a better way of life .
No contract in 3 years, no cola either. We are paid for our trip at a trip rate of pay. Bentprops with 25 years makes the exact same money i do for a run and I’m 19 years, a student i had in march that marked up to work in May of this year, he gets paid the same as well as each of us, not saying that’s a bad thing at all, but we have to expect the phone to ring at anytime. I’ve been in a situation i showed to work the next evening, went to sleep to the phone ringing 30 minutes later. I had been awake for nearly 20 hours when that phone rang cause i worked the whole night before getting home that morning and pushed through the day to be with my family, and than sat on a train another 12 hours before seeing a pillow. And that’s a common occurrence.
30/60 i hired at 21, I’ll have 39 at 60 but cannot go till 60! The railroad doesn’t pay the retirement either as some said it’s all contributions via the Railroad Retirement Board.
I understand . I started at 18 and the money goes to our investors too . We are allowed to pick to take half the pension draw monthly incase we go first then our spouse continues to get the money . If we draw full monthly and live one month that's it your spouse gets cut off and the money stays in the pension fund . Sorry your Dad did not get to enjoy the fruits of his labor .
Shut it ALL Fookin Down for a couple weeks!
Dude i really feel for you guys. Sounds like a really crummy situation. You have guys like yourself and @bentprops and im sure theres more on here that genuinely care about your trade and the company has a substantial amount of money invested to to gettin you to where you are now. I would think the company would like to take much better care of yall. You're all much better men than i am i would tell them they could all pound sand.
To flatten the curveJust shut it Fookin down!!
Sadly there’s no such thing as OT at least on the road.
I agree, i tell all my students to keep the job and jam out 5 years at max income. Stay home with folks and invest it all. After the 5 years the investments will pay them what the railroad does. Do it for 10 and they will never have to work for anyone again. Yes i listend to my own advice. Thats why when i get my 30 im out. To close to the finish line. ill be 51 with my 30.. wont get the retirment until 60 but i wont give them a sec more.I dont give them a sec more than i have to now. At least thats the plan. Who knows what tomarrow will bring.
thats us 24/7 365. unless we take our 2 24hr days off a month
