Posted on 12/02/2022 9:50:56 AM PST by lowbridge
I did.
The one I worked at had a welding lab to certify folks to weld. The instructors let me in there b/c I wanted to learn how to weld even though I had a completely different position.
There was another guy in the class that had just moved from his conductor position to a car maintenance one. Took a cut in pay. But he was able to see his family every day. As a conductor, he’d be gone 2-3 days. Come home and then watch his name go up the job board. Sometimes he wouldn’t be home 12hrs, bc the senior guys had the ability to call out and/or take other jobs.
Per their union contract. It’s a 6-figure job, after a few years but a very rough life in you’re in one of the jobs in the field.
Ackman the hedge fund guy.
“Ahead of the 2020 stock market crash, Ackman hedged Pershing Square’s portfolio, risking $27 million to purchase credit protection, insuring the portfolio against steep market losses. The hedge was effective, generating $2.6 billion in less than one month.
On March 18, 2020, in an emotional interview with CNBC, Ackman called upon President Trump for a “30-day shutdown” of the American economy to slow the spread of coronavirus and minimize loss of life and ensuing economic destruction resulting from the shutdown. Ackman warned that without intervention, hotel stocks were “going to zero” and said that America could “end as we know it.” He also cautioned U.S. companies to stop stock buyback programs because “hell is coming.””
Connected guy knows about covid well in advance. Buys insurance against an economic crash. Then goes on TV to plead with Trump to crash the economy.
It didn’t fix the sick leave situation.
No sir
Paul Hílal and Mantle Ridge took over CSX.
He and his team of “efficiency experts” did the same things to tow Canadian railroads.
His guy, Hunter Harrison, blamed all of CAXs problems on the employees and was vocal about it. And once told a committee in DC that his loyalties were to the shareholders, not to customers, as trains were breaking down and chaos was happening everywhere.
Sadly, some of the other companies adopted his management style and the whole industry is suffering. The Canadian railroads still haven’t fully recovered.
You got that right FRiend. And those conductors tell some tales. When it stops, the conductor has to walk the train with a heat gun checking for bearings going bad. That train can be as much as three miles long. And for extra fun if they find one that risks a fail, they are out there in god only knows what kind of weather changing it under ungodly time constrains.
Very rough work. People see their income and think they might do it. But they don’t. Oh, and you can get maimed or killed. Not often but it happens. Nearly every train crew can tell you about things they have hit on the tracks.
In New Mexico they go through Indian reservations. Indians have a set damage contract with the railroads. When a horse gets old they will walk it out on the tracks and nail it’s hooves to the cross ties. There the hapless animal stands. Engineer laying on the horn but it can’t run. Then the Injun reports his beloved horse was killed by a train and collects his 1500 bucks.
But more than occasionally, girls in cars on roads beside the tracks will flash their tits. So there’s that.
Very true. Railroads are amazing and every sane person loves them. Rail owners and their monied class are filthy and always have been, even since before the golden spike.
It has ever been thus.
“People seriously have no concept of the demands of operational railroad personnel. They are well paid, but their workload and shifts are unbelievable to those not close to it.
Talk to anyone who gets a firsthand look at it.”
Freepers that don’t like the compensation for rail workers(70% with only a high school education) should give it a try. They won’t because there is a plethora of nonessential employment that pays better & is safer.
Working the railroads is a lot more dangerous than working from home.
The bad attitude about labor on Free Republic is disgusting.
It was pretty easy - just clicked the twitchy link and read the whole thing, including all the twitter posts.
Just click the link and read it all.
You don’t have to “do” anything, except read.
I’m with you on that.
This is enlightening as to the current issue...but not at all surprising.
I once responded to a guy, fairly new to the job, who got his arm cut off.
No sh*t, a bird was attacking him, as he swatted at it, he tripped arm got caught under a wheel.
He lived.
girls in cars on roads beside the tracks will flash their tits. So there’s that....about the only fringe benefit.
I do not doubt it. I knew a man who slipped and lost a leg.
Yea but Republicans are not smart. You don’t vote with the workers. You demand all of their demands are met and you refuse the governments position.
FR is excerpt restricted to most sights, so if you don't look for yourself all you get is FR babble, which is most times ridiculously uniformed, knee jerk responses.
“Read my lips”... ROTFLMFAO!
Are Democrats working in cahoots with rail union bosses to win votes by rescuing unions from possible government-manufactured rail crisis?
All that it takes for one Republican lawmaker to effectively exercise majority power to stop Democratic involvement in rail labor issues is to publicly point out that feds have no express constitutional authority to deal with labor imo.
I did not ask you to read every twitchy thing - just go to the link pertaining to the thread and READ IT.
And that’s how you GET THE FACTS!
Joe Friday says so!
Right. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case. Same happened at my company. They rolled all PTO together into one big bucket. I would be really, really shocked if these rail workers don't already get a crapload more PTO than I do.
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