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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 22 July 2010

Railroads, Unions, Lack of Oversight (Corrupt Corporate America)

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Date: 2010-07-19, 5:42AM EDT

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Due to the lack of FEDERAL oversight; some railroad management are
audaciously (bribing) paying union officers FULL SALARIES 
to participate in phantom safety-[ not working] (once a month) programs
as added leverage against employees to control dissent; incite 
intimidation. The union officers are suppose to be bound by honor and
integrity to protect their members from harassment, 
threats for reporting unsafe working conditions and to ensure strict
safe working conditions to prevent distractions that is the 
main cause of accidents. An environment free of intimidation is an
environment free of accidents. 
The last ten years; Railroad CEO's and some union officer's salaries
have quadrupled while the TE&Y employees are at par. 
The major rail (BLET UTU) unions; FOUR out of the last SIX
International Officers have resigned or have been incarcerated due to
misconduct. 
The moral of this alarm is this: if the railroads are encouraging
corruption on local/division level; look at what the 
International Officers are turning-out to be on the national
level...CROOKS-without any FEDERAL OVERSIGHT!