Claim Invalid??     Railroaders work, and expect to be paid. It's a simple idea. Less work means less pay. Likewise, more work should mean more pay, but that's not the way things work on the CSX. According to union contracts, there are situations that warrant additional pay, for additional work, but more often than not, these claims are not honored by the CSX.

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Name: Drinky the drunk guy
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Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years
Posted: 16 May 2010

Sounds like you have an alcoholic trainmaster in Danville WV.  In new
orleans they just had a trainmaster fail a breath test.  He had just
got out of rehab for drinking on the job and Angie Averitte was in NOLA
for a couple of days and tipped him off that the nurse was there to test
him.  He just did not come into work.  The next day they were back and
he showed up and the idiot failed the test.  This trainmaster, Joe
Rider also fired more people than anybody there....and he was caught
drinking on the job.  Think about that for a minute.  That whole
terminals officals are the biggest bunch of drunks on the railroad. 
Angie was over saftery for the Atl Division and could not even drive to
work because she had so many DUI's.

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Name: worker E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 May 2010 worlking for CSX is like working for the NAZI's! View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 May 2010 I haven't a clue as to the actual number of T&E over the entire CSX system but 13,000 - 14,000 is not unrealistic. MOW, Signal Dept, Diesil Shops, clerks ect...are part of CSX Transportation. CSX is comprised of 6 different factions CSX Transportation, CSX Intermodal, CSX Technology, CSX Real Property, CSX Transflow, Total Distribution Services Inc that info is from their website. It is a railroad and it covers 23,000 miles of track. CSXT is it's bread and butter the other's were formed during the John Snow days when CSX was trying to diversify. View This Article

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 May 2010 only been back for less than month after this wonderful company furloughed me before i could complete training. Anyways meet all the train master at my yard the when i got back and all of them said unlike what the old heads think we are not here to fire you we just want to make sure your safe. They went on about how they don't want to do all the paper work involved in firing someone. I believed what they said for about a week. That is when a job in my yard had a derailment because two empty flat cars bunched up and derailed. The same young train master who told me we was here for us and not here to fire anyone was so, so, so excited saying " i finally got me one, i have been looking to fire someone" These were the exact words from his mouth. Never have i seen someone so excited to put a working man on the street without a care. What was funny is the investigation proved the crew was not at fault which made this train master looking even more like a asshole. If any traim master out there read this, don't fill young guys like me heads full of shit about how you don't won't fire us. Because we all know yall are full of pure shit. View This Article

Name: L & N Trainman E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 May 2010 have been hearing around my yard that since the L&N voted the new agreement down and i do mean really voted it down that CSX is trying to take jobs away from Nashville, Birmingham, and Louisville and give them to Chattanoga (can't spell it) as some sort of punishment for the NO vote. Anyone else heard of this and if so what is going on? View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 May 2010 Let me clarify a smidge. T&E is all that I have spoken to. I never expanded the conversation to the Transportation part of Railroading. So we are clear. Mow ,Clerks, Signal, Bridge and many more were never in my numbers. I never considered these folks T&E. And I still do not. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 May 2010 Just checking to see how really wrong and off base I am. Did I read that 13k to 14k out of 30k CSX employees were T&E? If so I may not understand what T&E really is. I always thought that was Train and Engine service, the folks that actually run the equipment in revenue service for the RR. I see now that I may be so old that, reason has left me. I give up RRJ, you win!!! almost 50% get to Run, Must be a fun place to work, but scares me a little. View This Article

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 May 2010 Hey Con 20-30: I'm betting neither. They're actually downsizing. If I remember correctly several years ago the UTU eliminated or consolidated a number of VP positions. There was also 3 or 4 VPs that got axed as a result of the proposed merger (but like the Terminator...they may be back). I found it interesting they will refurnish the entire office which will cost several million dollars. My questions are who owns the building and what connection do they have with the UTU, if any? Who is supplying the furniture and what connection do they have with the UTU, if any? A move like this take planning so it has been in the works for a while, probably more than a year. It's funny the general membership is just finding out about it! With the UTU/CSX SSA fiasco they may be able to downsize even further in the new future! At least there's not a Country Club near by...I guess they will just have to drive themselves in UTU supplied cars! View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 May 2010 Will the new UTU Building rent cost a increase to my union dues? Or will the Sheetmetal workers merger off set that ? I know stupid questions get stupid answers View This Article

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Name: me,me,me E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2010 i was at the redi center taking the refresher course and i came off the ladder.... and i have to go back in 28 days to do this again does anyone have any advice to help me to train and to pass this once more??? thanks in advance to all that helped View This Article

Name: LMAO! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2010 Thanks for the link to Marcus Calhoun McCants facebook page. NOMO son is friends with him! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! View This Article

Name: jsmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2010 These contracts get passed because the Union is in bed with the RR, I wish we could get rid of these Unions and start are own. We would be better off being represented by our own people and just hope they dont get greedy and get bought by the RR. On another note, Please check your wheels on your locomotives before departing. I work at a engine house and know through other people that wheel reports have been doctored, meaning changed to look like they are good just so they can outshop the unit. If you dont know how to gage wheels go on the Domino site on the gateway and read the Safe Job procedure or SMR and I am sure you can get a wheel gage from someone at a shop. If you wanna stick it to CSX look at your wheels on every unit in the consist. I have changed all the traction motors on unit because it derailed. That unit had no buisness being on the rail. I wish I had thought to write down the unit number but I didnt. Please check your wheels, supervisors will run units with bad wheels. I found some bad wheels oneday and the supervisor wouldnt have them cut and said the unit didnt come in the shop for that so we are not cutting them or replacing them. I had a supervisor want me to read a wheel with a hand gage because the electronic gage said it was out of spec. He was trying to get me to say the wheel was okay and I wouldnt do it. On another ocassion I was told to go and qualify some bolster pads and if I didnt pass them he was. Needless to say I didnt qualify them and they dont ask me to do much anymore because they know I wont sign it off to go back on the road unless its right. Alot of the othe rmachinist will do things for them such as sign off on stuff that aint fixed or hasnt been fixed. I have thought about going to the News and newspaper and squeal like a pig on there safety practices, things that I have seen and seen done by others. Its hard to stop this kind of thing and get someone important to take notice and do something about it. All this lobbying by CSX is one problem, who is gonna step on there toes when there pockets are getting padded. View This Article

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 May 2010 There are several comments I could make but I won't...I'll let the article speak for itself! http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=51817 View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 May 2010 Wrong. In Virginia there are at least 400 engineers when you take the 3 seniority rosters from the former railroads (C&O, SCL, B&O Eastern (RF&P)) some might be cut back to trainmen but their still on the roster. Add the other 13 states plus DC and a few Canadian provinces that CSX owns tracks. When I left last year in Virginia there were aprox 260 engineers on just the C&O roster. If you think 13000-14000 people in T&E out of 30,000 employees is high then you don't much about railroading. They could use another 2000-3000 in transportation. A lot of crafts have been hit harder by technology 1) clerks not many left 10% of their numbers from 20 years ago computers did away with their jobs 2) track department is about 25% compared to 20 years ago machines now do the work 3) there are only two major locomotive shops on CSX 20 years ago every location had a roundhouse. Like most industries the railroads have downsized utilizing those remaining into working more which means less quality of life contrary to what CSX states to the public. View This Article

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Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 May 2010 I had a little concern about the 30k employees, went back to the message from CSX and it is true. 30k is less than Tyson, Disney, GE, and many more. Not very many get to ride and drive on CSX. Most are selling, building,and managing the few that ride. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 May 2010 CSX has 30k Employees. And that is not very many. Now listen up 7,500 are Trainmen or Engineer combo's Who is kidding who. 5k Are Engineers. Looks like everyone get's to run Just guessing, purely a guess on my part out of 30k total Employees less than 5% are on board employees regardless of the trade. Looks like the CSX may have 1400 qualified engineers at a given time. Feel free to correct me , anytime View This Article

Name: Danny Lash E-mail: Tobykieth@yahoo.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 May 2010 Baltimore terminal sucks ass!!!! View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 May 2010 I stand by the numbers a conservative 7500+ trainmen. The CSX UTU Northern committees were not included in this tenative contract. Thank's for the info NoMo with some rough estimates taking in to consideration half are Canadian members, shortlines, Amtrak, 1800 yardmasters, commuter service, 8000 bus service members the UTU states it has a membership of 125,000. As for 5000 engineers one must remember every new hire can be forced to engine service. So they count even if their cut back. They do have a bypass clause if that individual has enough people under them in seniority they can't be forced into engine service. In my area I only know of one person who has used it. He hired out about 12 years ago with retirements he's secure as a trainmen. Biggest pitfall for him if the railroads get engineer only road trains. Then he'll be forced into yard service with the RCO at the bottom of the roster. View This Article

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Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 May 2010 Hey Other: 7,500 is probably a good guess. The total votes cast were 2384 if the numbers were correct...and that only covered about 1/2 the system. In the past few elections a 50% turnout would be considered about average. When you consider yard service, the ratio of 1.5:1 is probably conservative. With the above in mind 7,500 seems reasonable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Transportation_Union View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 May 2010 The UTU has 5,500 members total RRJ. Now there is now way 7,500 are working for CSX. Get it right retired one. Engineers at 5,000 on the CSX is not even a good guess. View This Article