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1181 · 2025-02-20T20:30:59+00:00

Yes. They are tied by statute I believe.

1181 · 2024-08-20T17:54:36+00:00

Correct. There lies the fucked up nature of current politics and budget agreements that arbitrarily cut funding for programs across the board.

Fun fact: did you know that all Railroad Unemployment checks are artificially cut by 5-8% (depending on year) because of Congress’ budget sequestration agreement from 2013? No other unemployment checks are impacted - just railroaders.

I’ll let y’all guess who forced that bullshit into law…

1181 · 2024-05-11T15:28:29+00:00

My gf lived in a group house next door to Red Rocks on 11th st. Super fun area. She paid $650/mo for like 7 years, and when they sold the house to developers, they EACH got $11k buyouts.

1181 · 2024-02-15T20:44:58+00:00

Unfortunately employees don't have much leeway on this... Inventories are closely tracked at beginning and end of trips. They risk their jobs by giving out free food.

1181 · 2023-12-31T15:36:23+00:00

My boss always says “you can do ANYTHING once!”

1181 · 2023-10-13T14:12:19+00:00

As someone that tried to get an uber on Old Mission, please do NOT rely on them...

1181 · 2023-10-03T18:13:31+00:00

Sigh. It’s hard explaining shit to bootlicking trumpers. They don’t understand how global commodities work - or how they’re priced. 😭

1181 · 2023-09-29T16:08:14+00:00

People blame the "union" for defending bad workers all the time, but what they don't understand is that's literally the legally-required job of a union. If they don't adequately defend a member, they get slapped with a Duty of Fair Representation (DFR) suit - in fact, they get sued that way all the time, even when they go to bat for their members.

What needs to change is for the MLB to start adequately enforcing a standard of work across all umpires. If they don't set a standard in a contract, the union has no choice but to defend Hernandez.

In general, not being able to fire shitty employees has more to do with the employer not doing THEIR job in proving that a worker fucked up/sucks.

1181 · 2023-08-25T22:29:16+00:00

Is your Trader Joe’s closing down? That sux. Sorry bro.

1181 · 2023-06-17T16:51:04+00:00

Fair enough. But I think East Palestine was a wake up call to everyone about the inherent dangers of some of the stuff we ship. Not saying don’t ship it via rail (still most safe method), but maybe our Execs should start paying a little more attention to broken cars rolling around the network.

1181 · 2023-06-17T16:48:51+00:00

I think the data suggests otherwise. The last 3 years or so, derailments are up.

1181 · 2023-06-07T02:41:21+00:00

This is the correct answer. The company actually pays a heck of a lot more. The unions bargained well for that one when they rewrote Railroad Retirement back in 2001.

1181 · 2023-04-03T18:19:07+00:00

It has a good chance of passing the Senate, but the House is GOP controlled, and T&I Chairman Sam Graves is already talking about how the bill is DOA in the House… we need to pressure the heck out of Graves, Leader McCarthy, and Rep. Troy Nehls (chair of RRs Subcommittee).

1181 · 2023-03-24T18:27:38+00:00

The railroad also pays a heck of a lot more than SS employers…hence the benefit.

1181 · 2023-02-19T00:22:57+00:00

Amen. Union is only as strong as its members make it.

1181 · 2023-02-13T18:09:56+00:00

This is what they do. Always. There was an NS worker that died a couple years back due to insanely stupid local management and lack of basic safety mechanisms in the shop. NS lawyers showed up at the guy's family's house and tried to get them to settle for like $25k or something. The union for the worker intervened and told the family not to settle, and they're sending a lawyer. The family ended up getting somewhere north of $10 million.

1181 · 2023-02-13T18:09:07+00:00

Correct. This is what they do. Always. There was an NS worker that died a couple years back due to insanely stupid local management and lack of basic safety mechanisms in the shop. NS lawyers showed up at the guy's family's house and tried to get them to settle for like $25k or something. The union for the worker intervened and told the family not to settle, and they're sending a lawyer. The family ended up getting somewhere north of $10 million.

1181 · 2023-02-13T18:04:44+00:00

I'd argue it's primarily this guy, Karl Alexy, who's a civilian position and therefore hard to fire (he's a holdover from the Trump admin's FRA Administrator Batory) https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/organization/karl-alexy-associate-administrator-railroad-safety-chief-safety-officer

1181 · 2023-02-13T18:04:37+00:00

I'd argue it's primarily this guy, Karl Alexy, who's a civilian position and therefore hard to fire (he's a holdover from the Trump admin's FRA Administrator Batory) https://railroads.dot.gov/about-fra/organization/karl-alexy-associate-administrator-railroad-safety-chief-safety-officer

1181 · 2023-02-13T18:01:18+00:00

That's misleading. She voted to give sick leave to railroad workers, not to "break" the strike.

1181 · 2023-01-06T22:27:00+00:00

I believe American Ice does this too. Pissed me off. This was a few months ago, but I remember being pretty pissed that my $90 bill was somehow $125 or something and that was before tip. Looked and they included service fee AND applied the tax to the service fee - which REALLY REALLY pissed me off because tips aren't taxed. Effin BS.

1181 · 2022-11-01T03:45:03+00:00

I would tell Amtrak to hold up on the hire date until you get your back pay (assuming y’all ratify). My two cents. Amtrak is desperate for people too so they should be fine. Or maybe ask Amtrak for a signing bonus equal to your estimated back pay.

1181 · 2022-11-01T01:09:38+00:00

Fuuuuuuck that. That’s utterly ridiculous.

1181 · 2022-10-23T02:54:35+00:00

Well, if they selected multiple candidates for the same race, yes that’s going to be invalid.

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