HemiHauler
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Please strike and strike hard. Shut down commerce.
Rail union strike would create a ‘crippling’ economy, industry official warns
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The companies would cave quickly and give the 7 days paid sick leave. Right now they have no reason to because they know the Govt will step in an protect them thanks to the RLA.
PeoplesElbow
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Rail workers make a crap ton, my friend works for the rail road, the bad thing is he gets calls all hours telling him he has to be there within an hour.
Kinnakeet
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7 days payed sick leave that is BS they should be getting 8 hours a month with unlimited carry over
Biden & the fed made the contract offer. These companies know they'll get govt money .
Let me state up front that I'm a railway labor kid. Grandfather, father, and even my brother. So I've got a soft spot for them. Dad would go years without a new contract. A lot of that because the govt decided that railways were too important to allow them to strike like other industries. (Coal miners got the same tratment too back in the day.) And the unions share the blame too. While the rank and file were concerned about better benefits, the union leadership negotiated for pay raises. Dad would say that was so the union could charge the workers more in dues.
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
I have family that work(ed) for Long Island Rail Road. The benefits and retirement packages are crazy good. 2 of them retired at 50. My nephew is in his 30s and he could retire very shortly and make more in retirement than I ever could have working. But like has been mentioned, you're on the hook to be called in at any time, holidays, weekends,....
Maybe they could hire a few of these guys to work for them, and ease up on their employees a bit.
I've heard good things about LIRR, and the other commuter railways for that matter. It's the big Class I freight haulers that suck rocks. Especially after implementing PSR.
Both of my Italian great grandfathers were brought over by railroad companies, and they spent most of their working life here in the US with the Boston and Albany Line. One of great grampa D'Orazio's sons started as an oiler, and worked his way up to Conductor. After he retired, AMTRACK got him to come back and instruct new conductors.
One of my Irish 3rd great grandfathers worked for a New Jersey Rail Company. One of his sons worked for one in Connecticut, then ended up with the Boston and Albany.
Step-father, his father and brothers were all RR employees for life. Indiana. Pop still had his Dad's company issued Colt handgun back in the day. It was .38 ACP if I recall correctly.
BOP
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Why do you hate America?
Same here. Paternal great-grandfather and grandfather came over from Italy to work on the B&O. Great-grandfather went back to Italy after he retired. (They were not WOPs. They had papers.)
I'm pretty sure a maternal great-grandfather was a conductor on the PRR for a time.
Bare-ya-cuda
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Of course you would want this. You hate this country.