[CBQ] Re: Train order delivery

["william" <macon249@yahoo.com>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Winton" <wyhog@...> wrote:
>
> I've never understood why RR management repeatedly let screw-ups come back to 
> work. It is law that the union must defend and try its best to restore all 
> members rights whether most of the rest of the local thinks the person should 
> be permanently fired or not. So the union has no choice. But the RR managers 
> do. There have been cases where fired employees never got back to work on the 
> RR but those are the exceptions to the norm. Anybody can make a mistake but 
> there are some who never learn yet are restored to service time after time. 
> Frankly I don't want to run against those people, one day their screw-up 
> might kill me. Get rid of them permanently.
> 
> Years ago one crew around here failed to tie ANY handbrakes on a coal train 
> they parked on a grade, and then cut off the lead unit to take it to the 
> house without properly cutting in the new lead unit's air brakes. The train 
> rolled off the hill into the yard, collided with the head end of another 
> parked train, destroyed locos, knocked down a large concrete overhead 
> pedestrian bridge, turned over numerous tank cars. The crews' punishment? To 
> show safety films to crews coming on duty for two weeks, with pay. Huh?
> 
> AK
>The answer is simple, their would be no one working. In years past short cuts 
>were rewarded, and still goes on today. I've been on both sides and was a 
>manager for 30 of my 40 years of service. Those who perform so to speak are 
>never in danger of losing their jobs and basicly if you went strictly be the 
>rules, no one would make it for very long. There are instances where some are 
>dismissed, rare though. Kinda like I have heard from several high officers say 
>"Only the dumb ones want to bust the Union" Its the basis of everyone's wages 
>and benifits
William Jackson




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