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: RRJ
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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 31 July 2010

LE 10-20

All that needs to be done is have a vote for those who will represent
them in railroad/union programs like the BLET SENSE or CSX Safety
committee. That's how we deal with it. No union officer especially the
LC should participate. That in my opinion is a conflict of interest.
Bring it up at the monthly union meeting. My BLET division has been
doing this for quite some time. It'll alleviate any suspician from the
membership. Those voted in can do monthly reports at the meetings.
Biggest problem most people do not fill out the necessary forms to
report safety concerns to their rep. When they go to monthly meeting
they need it in writing so it can be documented. People complain but
their part of the problem. Verbal complaints never get action not like
PI-82's or the BLET Safety forms. On CSX it's pretty much a sham
every month old business is discussed with alot of follow ups. Changing
a light bulb could take 6 months.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 July 2010 Loco 10-20 7/22 Are you kidding, it took you 10 years to figure this stuff out. I figure at 1k a year you have 10k invested in this. Man you bought some nice Lobster for the boy's. got a question for ya, How are things working for YOU? I know, I Know, gotta let em take my cash every half, can't stand up and fight the system. I know if they ask on Occasion for a little more, need to do that so my Budd's do not turn against me. Why post a bitch about the union, when you are the Union? I think you are ball less and a follower. No person in their right mind would continue to do as you are doing, the RR and the Union both know this, now it is your turn to tell me why?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 July 2010 Railroads, Unions, Lack of Oversight (Corrupt Corporate America) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2010-07-19, 5:42AM EDT Reply To This Post -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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!

Name: signal man E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 July 2010 this has got to be a joke.. A big group of conductors and engineers that have nothing better to do then cry. I am a signalman with CSX and have never heard anyone cry and bitch as much as you guys. If you dont like your jobs then quit. It is because of your rule violations and not paying attention you ever get in trouble. Everytime I have to go to a meeting with trans I hate it you are a big group of crying bitches. Also it was a trans person that is making us work extra hard under FRA and now we have to add PTC because one of you guys in California killed a bunch of people while texting. Here is a hint, try to go get another job and see if you get paid 50+K a year to sit on your ass and complain because a caller runner didnt bring you ice and crew packs.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 July 2010 took a look at the proposed consolidation that CSX wants to impose. Looks like Montgomery and Erwin are really gonna take up the ass. Also it is very obvious that CSX is kissing the SCL's ass and wanting to punish the L&N for voting down the last agreement. Wow what a great company to work for. The L&N local chairmen need to get off there asses and stop this before shit really hits the fan. Would like to hear what everyone else has to say about this horse shit

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 July 2010 Did the webmaster forget about this website? Doesn't look like it has been updated in the longest time. well besides the daily comments that people post.

Name: Ms danvill E-mail: Asmo Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 June 2010 Word is Angie smith won her case against Csx . Found Csx guilty on all counts/sexual harrassment withthanks going too wes knick. Next followed up by retaliation for daring to report it.. Honor goes to jack Vierling for firing her . Maybe Csx can sell his black belt in six sigma with jay fleenors dentures and have enough for attorney fees. Honorable mention goes to Terry schray and randy hall for nailing down the loose ends and making sure the jurors had no doubt what a sleazy bunch Csx has at the hel

Name: red E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 June 2010 I've been laid off and just came back to work. I'm on the road. Does anyone know how many qualifing days I need for vacation. I'm hearing 240 or 234 does anyone know for sure. Thanks

Name: Dr Ruth E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 June 2010 C&O Joe: Sounds like to me you may be the one that needs laid. Maybe you and Wes could do each other since you both seem to be experts on who needs fucked.

Name: georgekoury E-mail: georgekoury56@yahoo.com Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 June 2010 in 1976 i was beaten by two black men on a coach of are camp train working on the CSX Central Regional rail gang. I still suffer many after affects of this attack. They arrassement me four months stealing my lunch and calling me filthy names. The experience was a tradfull one which i will never ever foget

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 June 2010 OK, Gonna let ya off the hook. I can hear ya gagging with that 14k hanging in the windpipe.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 June 2010 Friend of CSX worker, My wife is pregnant as well and i will be damned if i turn off my phone. If i am at work when she calls i will tell her to call the YM or Train Dispatcher (depending where i am working) one time. If i dont get a response in 5 minutes, my ass is off and gone. They don't want you to interferer with them making money and your outside life is at the very bottom of the list of core values

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 May 2010 No, you've been assuming T&E are closer to 5000. Reread my post. To tell you the truth I could care less. End of discussion.

Name: screw csx E-mail: screwcsx@gofockyourself.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 May 2010 just wanted to say Happy Memorial Day to all Union brothers and sisters. As far as CSX goes, YEP, YOU STILL SUCK!!! Enjoy and happy drinking!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 May 2010 Jim now listen up You said 2008-2009 furlough 2500, almost half?? dummy that makes 5k. Man you do it for me. Now how far is 5k from 14k. I have seen rocks and a few dumb rocks, you are the Engineer with a full grip!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 May 2010 RRJ Just to keep annoying you . What does 1200 train's per day really mean! Are these simply the one's that CSX want's to count, or the one's you want to count. I bet the CSX is counting Starts, not your imature BS. I would think after a gazillion years and all of your experience you would know. Heck man you can not even get the miles and states right. I gave you 3k and that is a brakeman on half the starts. Piss on about rock trains, guess they are not trains and require no one. Good thing you are Retired, However looks like you are simply a foamer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 May 2010 Angie Smith vs. CSX case goes to court in Danville 0900 Tuesday June 1st. Anyone in the area may want to see this show. Come to the court house and see all your favorite Characters....Frulla, Vierling, Fleenor, Wes Knick, Randy Hall, Terry Schray and last but not least a special guest appearance by no other than Gery Williams. Guaranteed to have more dirt and scandal out in public than an Jerry Springer episode.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2010 Have you ever heard of yard crews? Mine switchers? Locals? Rock trains? Pushers - helper service? Industrial yard switchers? Road Switchers? Extra Boards? Utilitymen? I'm sure I've left out a few. 14,000 out of 30,000 is about right it is a railroad. By your guesstamites when CSX furloughed 2500+ trainmen in 2008-2009 they had to do way with over half their work force. That didn't happen. You sure are an obsessive little schidt.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 May 2010 From mike ward, CSX home site, info for investors. 2009 Review. CSX has 21k miles CSX has 3800 Locomotives. CSX has 101k cars. CSX runs 1200 trains per day.(24HRS) CSX moves 20k cars per day CSX has 30,000. employees. Now tell me why they have 14k or more T&E AS PER RRJ. 1200 trains would require, let us say 3k that would be 50% with a Brakeman? With 14,000 T&E Every one is loving the guarantee as they only need to work 3 or 4 days a month. Also this means 47% of all CSX employees are T&E qualified. OK RRJ your turn to check me out and make me wrong.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 May 2010 Carman in Selkirk NY,I am hearing that the FRA is camped out in Waycross GA. What is going on, Is Matt Carson still employed?

Name: Drinky the drunk guy E-mail: 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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Name: me E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 May 2010 when does the montgomery a.w.p get paid next? and do they paid every week or every two weeks? getting transferd there and would like to know so i can see when and how to pay my bills ....thanks in advance....and what is the conductor gurantee pay ??

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 May 2010 NoMo If there are according to CSX aproximiately 5000 Locomotive Engineers on CSX you can bet there are at least 7500 trainmen. Even if 10% of them belong to the BLE(T) that still leaves 6750. If those figures are correct on the vote then the unions aren't the problem the membership is. Which todays young ages of trainmen makes sense they haven't a clue about unions and their responsibility. I can pretty much make a sure fire bet most came from families that their parents/parent were non-union. Unlike my generation where we knew unionized jobs were the places to work.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 May 2010 If that's the case Hancock is way out of line...the GC on the L&N and C&O need to file charges against Hancock with International; if the don't they should be brought up on charges. Sounds as though Hancock promised something he can't deliver on. With 66% against you can't even justify a recount unless you question the vote on the SCL and A&WP, which you could easily on the A&WP based on the margin. A total of 2100 took time to return ballots...I wonder how many ground service personnel are represented by the UTU on those four flags? Sad!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 May 2010 I understand about the single system agreement but what I was told by my lc that hanCOCK said the l&n and the c&o would go before an arbitrator and he would decide which to go with I say is bs . HanCOCK and csx wants this agreement bad . There has already has been phone calls to the national office.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 May 2010 No news of the results for the CSX/UTU Single System Agreement posted on the UTU website this morning at 0812 on 5/3/10. If it's true that a majority voted it down then it isn't forced on anyone. What don't you understand about the words "Single System"? This agreement would do away with the SCL, C&O, B&O, L&N, Conrail ect....former work rules an agreements would then be null and void.

Name: Be happy in your work E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 May 2010 Did you know that=== Todd Novak ===is planing to come back to work , at collinwood yard . this skum bag was the BLE treasurer in cleveland ,and was convited for stealing money from his brothers and union people . He stated all he was doing was using for a while and planed to pay it back . sounds like every other embeleser , i would like to see what union local is going to take him back ????? do not let ====Todd Novak=== back !!!!!!!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 May 2010 Hey Con 10-20: Why am I not surprised...I suspected CSX and the UTU might try something like that. I'm no labor expert but I'm not sure CSX can cram it down on the L&N and C&O side even if it passed on the A&WP and SCL. Better get your stones out and start honing those blades...it nut cuttin' time...sooie pig! Just make sure there is a mud wallow nearby so they can cool that fire! http://www.bluntie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pigs-in-mud-wallow-300x225.jpg Isn't that Hancock facing this way?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 May 2010 Well NoMo , it passed by 25 votes on the scl and passed by 1 vote on the awp (the deciding vote was throughed out b/c he marked the wrong craft) voted down on the l&n and c&o . Overall voted down numbers 1400 against and 700 for the agreement . So now they are talking about the scl and awp having the agreement and doin a cramdown on the other two. So they say the popular vote doesn't mean shit!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 May 2010 Well now...it's Sunday May 2nd the UTU has had plenty of time to tally the votes...and the decision is?

Name: Nazi Hunter E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 01 May 2010 Very interesting article that might change Nazi Safety Programs April 29, 2010 Massey offering each family $3M, miner's daughter says The daughter of one of 29 men killed in a West Virginia coal mine explosion says owner Massey Energy is offering each family a $3 million settlement. By The Associated Press Advertiser CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Massey Energy is offering $3 million to each of the families of 29 men killed in an explosion at its Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, the daughter of one of the victims said Thursday. The offer came a week earlier when Massey officials visited the family, said Michelle McKinney, daughter of Benny Ray Willingham. McKinney said other families have received the same offer. Massey did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment. The widow of William Griffith has already filed a wrongful death lawsuit, while the mother of Adam Morgan has won a court order preserving relevant records and potential evidence from the disaster. The April 5 explosion -- the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years -- also has prompted legal action by several current and former shareholders. McKinney isn't interested in settling. "Nope,'' she said. "My dad didn't have a price tag on him. Don Blankenship don't have enough money to pay me.'' Massey CEO Blankenship is among the highest paid executives in the coal industry. McKinney said she would like to take every penny he has. "Maybe it'll save somebody else's life,'' she said. On Monday, Richmond, Va.-based Massey laid out a financial package that it said would free the families from ever worrying about money. Among other things, Massey said families would receive five times the miner's annual pay as life insurance benefits and an additional payment to surviving spouses. The offer also would include health coverage both for surviving spouses and dependent children, and four years' worth of college or vocational education at any accredited school in West Virginia for those children. Director Robert 'Doc' Foglesong said accepting those benefits would not prevent a family from pursuing any legal claims. Federal and state investigators suspect the explosion was caused by a combination of methane gas and combustible coal dust. Toxic gases have kept them from entering the mine. Officials say tests showing the presence of acetylene and ethylene, gases not normally found in an underground work environment, suggest a fire may be burning somewhere.

Name: jsmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 April 2010 I posted some info on here about several employee having to testify in front of the Federal Grand jury a week or so ago about the harassament and intimidation of injured employee. I have heard several indictments were handed down on CSX, I have looked several times on here to see if there was any response to the info I posted but there wasnt. I figured you guys would be happy about some info like this. In 2008 in Waycross every manager had been fired, demoted or told they had to go somewhere else. They were caught signing off work packets and working on locomotives in the ready field(doing 92 day work), so in other words there were bribing employees with overtime pay to sign off the work. An employee was injured and they let him sit in the safety office for almost a year without reporting his injury, threatened to fire him if he reported, allowed other employees to harrass him and they would not let him go in the office without an escort. They sent Chuck Arwood to take over for the plant manager they fired. Chuck would hide in the parking lot trying to catch people leaving early, he would also try to enter peoples vehicles. Ethics was called, someone came and took the DVR storage device for the video cameras because Chuck was caught on it pulling on door handels of employees vehicles. There were alot of injuries after Chuck took over, one person was fired because he put the worng date on the injury report and his friend lied and said he didnt fall, The guy had to have a disc replaced. CSX is a bad place to work, I suggest we the employee's hold them accountable by filing complaints and lawsuits. We need to keep a close eye on management and document everything and start standing up to them. Someone posted some information about the RCO operator that was killed on the CSX message board on Yahoo finance and it was removed.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 April 2010 It's like any thing else medical...the better one's insurance is, the more care one gets...until your limits are reached. Then the care ends!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 April 2010 We are making these outfits rich. This is hurting our bottom line. Why are there so much abuse on the rails? Hiding under the Desk

Name: lilbuddy E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 27 April 2010 Sara: http://www.mtregis.com/contactus.asp good luck and have faith.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 April 2010 Good Evening, Could someone please tell me where a CSX employee from Virginia would be sent for alcohol treatment? What might he expect? Will he be allowed contact with family members? I sincerely appreciate any information you could provide. Thanks, Sara

Name: who E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 April 2010 where does the Montgomery awp run ?

Name: jsmith45 E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 April 2010 Several employees from Waycross had to testify in front of a Federal Grand jury two weeks ago. I believe some indictments were handed down on CSX. All this stems to the harassment and intimidation of injured employees. One was fired a while back because he put the wrong date on the injury report and the witness was at fault for his injury and he lied on the poor guy to save his job. I think the guy that got hurt had to have a disc replaced in his back. I hope CSX gets what they deserve from the grand jury.

Name: JAMES R WILLIAMS E-mail: jwilliams19556@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 April 2010 i worked for seaboard csx out of hamlet n,c 28345 4/29/1966 until 4/4/1986,the rr let me go they said i was color blind, it took me ten years to prove that i was not color blind, they put me back to work after ten years, i was a orange book man, the union did not try to help. i got nothing for the ten years i was off thanks to the union paying dues for 25 years thANK J.R. WILLIAMS

Name: Joe Shit the Ragman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 30+ years Posted: 11 April 2010 Damn near finally free of this company after 34 years. There were some really good people I worked with over the years and some real assholes . To the good guys , I'm gonna miss you all. To the Assholes ....For your sake I hope I never run into y'all again . I dont like jail HAHAHAHA

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2010 NoMo Yeah!!! I've read all the excuses for keeping mediocre people in high places. It seems the gene pool for executives has rapidly declined thru inbreeding.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 April 2010 Hey RRJ: It's so they can attract, hire and retain this enormous talent...they certainly wouldn't want to lose these Einsteins to the competition!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2010 NoMo I'm sure their crying to the bank. I'm sure they all feel their worth much more it's the American CEO way. It is a shame that the CEO's whose corporations recieved TARP monies made a lot more in compensation. Those banking, insurance, and Wall St CEO's who need to be tarred and feathered and run out of town. CEO compensation isn't equal by any means to the performance of a corporation. The piss poor excuse that is made that it is based on the Fortune 500 shouldn't hold weight anymore. That maybe change in the higher echilons might be a good thing.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 April 2010 It's a pity party in the executive suite...Mike's got plenty of company...that river of tears may not have crested yet! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36167502/ns/business-us_business/

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 April 2010 The last of the furloughed in Louisville have been called back. Also, 13 cut-backs have been marked back up to Engineer. Progress?

Name: wasted my time with the unions E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 March 2010 Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life. Once you union morons understand this, you will move on with your lives. Till then, you will praise Obama, the democrats, and others, that demean you and your being by accepting the scraps they give you. Michael Ward understands that! Honor is self-esteem made visible in action. I am a man who does not exist for others. Solidarty my ass!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 March 2010 Yeah, cry me a river.....

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 March 2010 Yeah Nomo, excuse me while I break out my kleenex.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 March 2010 Poor Michael! http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=51270

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 March 2010 There are no Harris COLA adjustments anymore at least not in the near future. As for pay raises you just got one plus your productivity bonus check. You're already thinking about another one. I don't think there are any increases till 2011. Check with your LC.

Name: I E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 March 2010 Does anybody know when the next COLA/Raise is for the Engineer's working under the BLE/CSX SSA? We just got a 5% raise Jan 1, 2010, just wondering when the next raise is and how much.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2010 Excuse me while find my Coon skin hat:(

Name: Southwest airlines E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 March 2010 Hand scanner? Talk to an aircraft mechanic and get some skydrol. Put it on your hand then scan. Let the skydrol do its trick.

Name: steve E-mail: hmstoo@hotmail Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 March 2010 Hey Skippi! I started with CSX in the 70s and quit in the 90s. Retirement age was changed when Regan was in office. I wasn't eligible for full benefits until I was 66 & 9 months.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 March 2010 Productivity up...labor costs down. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35705431/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 March 2010 One more Spencer to go, then I will really celebrate....

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2010 Hey Loco 30+: Every last one of them needs to be voted out...whether Demo. or Rep., Senator or Congressmen none of them are worth a shit. It's truly embarrassing. I can hardly wait until the fist fights break out in the chambers. I was saving this for the Union leadership but it's appropriate for these buffoons too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8qeacBZGA4 Forgive the filibuster!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 March 2010 NoMo It appears Bunning was playing partisan politics in the begining till the news media backlash. Then the Repo's turned against him. They're all hypocrits Repo's and Dem's alike.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 March 2010 Hey Loco 30+: I thought Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby were a the two most pompous asses from the same state (Alabama) in the Senate...Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning have them beat by a long shot. I can understand why he's not running for reelection...besides two terms is long enough!

Name: tripod E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2010 Should Congress make it easier for workers to form and join labor unions? Yes 7 No 68 Not Sure 25 Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/2/832988/-The-2010-Comprehensive-Daily-Kos-Research-2000-Poll-of-Self-Identified-Republicans Historically labor unions have indisputably been the best friend that working people have ever had. More recently that's open to debate. In any case, follow the link for some real proof that the country is screwed. This is also kind of interesting: http://www.truthout.org/the-home-depot-misery-index57291

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 March 2010 Retraction: It seems Sen Bunning (R-Ky) wasn't playing partisan politics it appears he was just being an arsehole because he can. He's retiring this is his last term in the Senate. He voted against extending COBRA and unemployment benefits on the Senate Finance Committee unless the money came from the bailout TARP funds. Bad judgement on his part to play renegade with the lives of 400,000 Americans. Along with this bill was financing for the DOT infrastructure programs. The DOT now has to furlough 2000 people all work will stop because federal inspectors won't be on the job. That means contractors will have to lay off workers. Let's give a big thumbs down to Sen Bunning. We should have a special Brown Banana award for those who achieve notoriety beyond the raiload and CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 March 2010 I've survived in the American workforce during 8 presidents starting with Nixon and Clinton by far was the best. I've been through 4 recessions. I have never witnessed such dirty politics like the past 10 years. People like Sen Bunning (R-Ky) who through partisan politics held hostage and denied unemployment extension benefits for 400,000 Americans this past week. That is unexceptable. I'm sure that will cost the Repo's some of their gains they've had in the past year. The American people want change which they won't get from either party. Both are deaf, dumb, and blind. Seeing my railroad carreer is coming to a close my politics will also shift in another direction. That's the positive side of being an independent no loyalty to anyone.

Name: Jesus Nomo E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 March 2010 LOL! Nomo said this....... Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2010 Hey Con 1-10: Lets get one thing straight...first I'm not your buddy. Secondly, at 28 your not old enough to know the difference between shit and shinola. If you've been in furlough status for four years, why would you hang around the crew room and make yourself mad by watching the old heads tally their earning statements? Or better yet, why haven't you taken a transfer...I'm sure they have been offered. Why are the "young guys" suffering to feed their family? Perhaps you can favor all of us by telling us what kind of trucks they drive and how they live. The old heads can drive those trucks because their families are grown and hopefully off their dole, their houses are paid for. Their expenses are less than a young man with a family. Life is full of choices...you can save and invest money now or you can spend it on impressing your friends. Make the wrong choice now and you'll regret it later. Any one under 30 has never seen truly tough times. Times are tough and will get tougher before they get better, sounds like the regrets are starting. By the way, I have a '01 GMC Yukon and a '99 MB ML450 and the money I've saved on notes, insurance and tags will pay for a nice extended family vacation in Europe this summer or buy one of my Grandchildren a P.A.C.T. contract which will pay for their college education. Like I said, it's their money and they can spend it however they want to. If they are suffering however, do you think it might be because of the choices they made? What he failed to add is that he is full of shit and that he was selling his furniture to his step son not that long ago. The step son that still works for railroad.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2010 CSX stock listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange...why? I guess CSX has run out of suckers at home or maybe they want to offer a derivative or hybrid security that the SEC won't approve!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2010 This should settle the argument about NAFTA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement NAFTA is a Treaty and can be repealed at any time by a vote of the Senate. It hasn't happened yet...don't hold you breath waiting for it to be repealed.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 March 2010 You Moonbatties are the crybabies, I'm just stating the facts xD You said, "Nixon was the first president to visit China. Every president since has had some dealings with China including Ford, Carter, Raygun, Daddy Bush, Clinton, Baby Bush, and Obama." Again, "During periods of American economic expansion in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the number of private-sector jobs increased about 3.5 percent a year, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute," No problem during Nixon. In this article it started with Clinton. And Clinton SOLD stuff to China while he was there :D I would like to see this article updated to today and see how much a bigger mess it is. From 2003 http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_12102003/ You need to layoff the Kool-Aid flavored NyQuil and post only at night for best clarity since bats are only active when the sun goes down. TIP: Question, When does a Moonbat run out facts to support it's argument? Answer, When it resorts to name calling and gets critical about other's spelling and grammar.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 March 2010 Uh oh, don't look now but your job is going to Cambodia :( http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010030132846/Business/csx-launch-set-for-may-official-says.html CSX launch set for May, official says Monday, 01 March 2010 15:03 Nguon Sovan THE Cambodia Securities Exchange will launch officially in May, officials said Sunday. Hong Sok Hour, general director of the Cambodia Securities Exchange, said that the process to establish the CSX would be completed in early April and officially inaugurated in May. “We’re preparing to register [CSX] at the Commerce Ministry. After it’s registered, we will apply for a licence at the SECC, possibly sometime next month,” he said, referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia. An unnamed SECC official told the Post on February 11 that the CSX would be inaugurated this month. The exchange would be housed at an as-yet-undecided temporary location ahead of the launch of trading at a new four-storey building in Camko City, a development on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. “We do not want to disclose anything about the interim building for CSX because it’s under negotiation,” said Hong Sok Hour. SECC Director General Ming Bankosal said Sunday the CSX licence would not take long to process, and that the procedure had already been discussed.

Name: rel'd women of B'ham E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 March 2010 Great news everyone, yeah!!!!!yeah!!!!!!heah!!!!! Danny Spencer has been fired as a CSX officer, the days of fucking with peoples wifes, chickenshit failures, lying to everyone, stepping on toes has finally caught up with old Danny. Too bad he did'nt get fired completely. Would have been nice to have seen his seniority taken away so he could see what it feels like to be on the other end of things for a change. Ever heard of 'Karma' Danny? well you finally got yours.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 March 2010 Apparently your to ignorant to realize American corporations were already moving down south of the border before NAFTA. It was for the cheap labor. NAFTA was a left over bill from Daddy Bush when Clinton took office as was the Brady Bill. It still doesn't excuse during the Shrub days in the new millenium corporations sending customer service & tech jobs to India, Pakistan, Taiwan ect...for cheaper labor cost. Opinions are like assholes everybody has one. Some like you are a bigger asshole.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 March 2010 You sound like a cry-baby Repo. It's always the democrats fault. Sure, NAFTA (North American Free Trade Aggreement) came about during Clinton he should of veto the bill. Then again the Repo's controlled congress they voted it in. That has nothing to do with shipping jobs overseas apparently you haven't a clue. Nixon was the first president to visit China. Every president since has had some dealings with China including Ford, Carter, Raygun, Daddy Bush, Clinton, Baby Bush, and Obama. I tried to not use to many big words to confuse your tiny cranium.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 March 2010 R U OK? You are rambling on like a homeless man. We are talking about shipping American jobs out the US like NAFTA And selling US technology secrets to the Chinese. Clinton's changes took time and worked i'ts majik thru the "W" years and still is. Ever hear of the word, "Moonbat"?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 March 2010 I think your math is a little off. The last decade from 2000-2008 was George "The Shrub" Bush not Bill Clinton. Typical Repo bullschidt. The Clinton years were properous for the middle class even with a Repo controlled congress. Things really didn't go downhill till the Repo's controlled the WH and congress in 2000. This countries troubles started in the early '70s with Nixon then escalated with Carter who got elected because the Nixon years were corrupt and this country needed someone who didn't have skeletons hidden in their closet. Carter like Obama didn't have the political connections needed to straighten out the country. By the time Raygun took office it was a mess and it got worse. Raygun stopped using any regulations we had to control the banking system and Wall Street. Interest rates for homes were 14% families were homeless and Raygun toppled the unions when he fired the Air Traffic Controllers. Raygun over spent on weapons to compete with the Russians. He gets the glory for defeating the USSR but if they could of held out we would of gone bankrupt. It was a difficult time in this country. I saw the same pattern with The Shrub and his illegal war in Iraq. We are so far in debt my great-grandchildren will still be paying it off.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 February 2010 During periods of American economic expansion in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the number of private-sector jobs increased about 3.5 percent a year, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, a research firm. During expansions in the 1980s and ’90s, jobs grew just 2.4 percent annually. And during the last decade, job growth fell to 0.9 percent annually." You can thank Clinton for the last part. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gcnXuUYpc

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2010 This article is worth reading... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35504954/ns/business-the_new_york_times//

Name: averagejoe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 February 2010 still furloughed cubby your probalby right about hearing about csx starting to hire again while they have people furloughed. the union does nothing about it though becuase once you are hired you have to join the union or face bieng fired so yes i have said it once and will say it again the union cares for itself as long as they get thier dues they dont care where it comes from csx can hire and furlough as much as they want as long as a certian number of each respective union members are forced to pay dues the unions dont care just like the company as long as they get thiers. people bitch about csx and god knows i do too i dont even work their used to be a dream but i am a very astute young man and after carefull reading i came up with what i just said. as long as the unions get thiers what the hell ever to the members now im not saying do away with the unions im just saying as long as there is enough members in service for the unions to still be profitable there will be no change for the better of the working class men, no strikes, no arguments hell it seems like anymore you feel lucky to have the chance to sacrafice a finger to save a arm so i ask all of you is that the meaning of a union give them a little to sacrafice livelyhood what happens when we run out of fingers then they take the arm and we feel lucky they didnt take the other arm guys there isnt an end im not asking for answers just trying to see if you can see where im coming from im likel the control i look on from the outside read the contracts and weigh the options and the options are as i just stated

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 February 2010 Please Read if cut back or flowed back Open enrollment begins November 1 for BLET Short Term Disability plan CLEVELAND, November 2 — Open Enrollment for 2010 under the BLET’s Short Term Disability insurance begins on November 1, 2009, and runs through December 15, 2009. If you are a locomotive engineer working on a railroad that participated in the Wage Rules portion of the national agreement dated December 16, 2003, your coverage under Part A (described below) of the BLET Short Term Disability Plan will automatically continue. Last year, if you opted out of Part B coverage (also described below), then you can opt back in during this enrollment period. If you currently participate and wish to opt out of Part B coverage, you can also do so during this enrollment period. Part A — Non-Occupational Disabilities Effective January 1, 2010, there will be no changes to Part A coverage: • Your eligibility and $40 premium is submitted by the railroad on a monthly basis. • Part A pays $402 per week for non-occupational disabilities only. • Occupational disabilities are not covered. • Each eligible member is insured for $50,000 of Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage. Part B – Occupational Disabilities Effective January 1, 2010 there will be no changes to Part B coverage: • Part B is voluntary. Participation in this additional occupational coverage is not required. • The weekly benefit for occupational disabilities is $402 per week. • Each eligible member is insured for $50,000 of AD&D coverage. • The benefit is not subject to repayment upon receipt of a FELA settlement (no repayment after a personal injury settlement). • The benefit is not considered taxable income. • The cost is $23 per month and will be payroll deducted with your monthly union dues. NOTE: UTU members working as engineers are eligible for Part A and may purchase Part B coverage by making an annual payment of $276 to the BLET Trust Fund. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT: • Eligibility for Part B is dependent on your eligibility for Part A. In order to be eligible for Part A, you must have** ****seven starts in a month with one start as an engineer.************ If you are furloughed to train service and become ineligible for Part A coverage, you must notify the Secretary-Treasurer of your local division immediately. At that time, you have three options: 1. Continue coverage of Part A and Part B by paying $40 directly to the BLET Trust Fund by the 10th of the month and continuing payroll deduction of $23 for Part B. Coverage may only be continued for six months under this option. If you choose this option, you will need to contact the Plan Administrator (information below) for additional instructions. 2. Discontinue coverage of Part B temporarily until you return to engineer status and become eligible for Part A. An engineer, who loses Part A coverage due to no fault of his own, may resume coverage for Part B once he returns to engineer status and becomes eligible for Part A. You must keep the Secretary-Treasurer of you local division informed of your status. 3. OPT-OUT of Part B by completing an OPT-OUT form. If you choose to opt-out of Part B, you may only resume coverage during a subsequent annual enrollment period. If you currently do NOT participate and choose to do nothing, you will continue to be only eligible for Part A coverage. • If you currently do NOT participate and would like to sign-up for Part B coverage during this open enrollment period, or if you do currently participate and would like to opt-out of Part B coverage, you must notify the Secretary-Treasurer of your local division by completing and returning the attached form by December 15, 2009. Your election will become effective on January 1, 2010. • Members who OPT-OUT of Part B coverage effective January 1, 2010, will not be eligible to enroll for the coverage until the next annual enrollment period. Anyone with questions can contact Jim Bradford, BLET Short Term Disability Administrator, at (216) 241-2630, ext. 205, or email: Bradford @ble-t.org. A copy of the opt-in/opt-out form is available below: http://www.ble-t.org/pr/pdf/STD-opt-inout.pdf d if cut-back or flowed-back

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 February 2010 Re: rate of pay in Selkirk yd......same as daily rate in any former Conrail territory...203.29 daily...19.48 more for robo...

Name: Cee E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 February 2010 From past experience: The vast majority of comments or discussion on any forum or web site you will see are going to be against the contract. This will get ratified through crew room and locker room discussions by those who know very little about it. Where the only voices you will hear are the loudest. The ones that are usually full of shit. Good luck voting this one down.

Name: moving E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 February 2010 i being transfed to baltimore in the next 2 weeks does anyone have any advice, or know anything about baltimore work conditions? PLEASE help ...........

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 February 2010 Does anyone know the rate of a day's pay in Selkirk yard?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 February 2010 One issue that has been brought up at the union meetings has been the excessive amount of dicsipline that is being doled out by CSX. It occured to me under the SSA if a person has been charged and assessed time wether overhead or time in the street they are not entitled to the 50% 401K plan match stock award under the yearly bonus. At my terminal just about every engineer has been brought up on charges no matter how minut. CSX has successfully manipulated the SSA agreement. The trainmen have avoided this fate. If they vote in this SSA they too will become pawns.

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 February 2010 75% of CSX stock is owned by institutional investors, so, most people are not aware they own CSX stock. Management manipulates it, pump and dump, is their mantra.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 February 2010 Usually but not always, they increase the dividend when the announce the split. Depending on the ratios they might also announce a big stock buy back to offset the dilution caused by the split. That allows management to brag about creating shareholder value and justify their salaries and enormous bonuses! This scenario is not unique to CSX...they all do it. Companies that don't pay a cash dividend many times will declare a stock dividend. It's all about perceptions...keep Wall St. happy and everybody makes money!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 February 2010 Stock split? I've never seen it happen until it's at least $75 a share. Then I've seen it split 3 to 1 down to $25. It was a good thing the stock quickly escalated people made money. Just because they'll give you shares over a contract doesn't mean they'll manipulate it that drastically the stock is only at $44.90. They do have other share holders to appease. Then again I own quite a few shares a split would double my investment over a relatively short period of time.

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 February 2010 Look for a stock split right before they issue yours. They have done it before, they will do it again.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 13 February 2010 Cond 1-10 I think you need to hear from those who have been under a Single System Agreement since 2007. There are those who'll read the cleff notes on the front page which highlights the good points and think this is great. I'm not here to convince you to vote against it just don't be ignorant to the facts. People read productivity bonus, lump sum bonus, shares of stock ect...for some that's all they need to know. Quit this bullschidt of oldhead and newbie it puts a big divide between people. It's not that good for the oldhead but your not thinking straight. How does it help? Productivity bonuses won't start till 2013 pay raises won't start till 2012. I would think every oldhead would be appalled at such an agreement. It most certianly doesn't help to fill their retirement investments with stagnant wages. Biggest concern for you is your generation has the voting power those are the ones you need to convince. Every oldhead could vote "yes" it doesn't matter it wouldn't pass unless your generation doesn't vote.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 February 2010 I think that it is interesting that people who are not going to be under this contract keep trying to put their two cents in. Let the conductors deal with their contract and the engineers deal with theirs. Something to remember is that hardly anyone with 30 yrs+ is going to be hurt by this contract.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 February 2010 Our union general chairmen are just a bunch of railroad puppets, there is no way the could've asked for 90% on this shitty contract unless somebody is filling up their pockets. Hope they enjoy their blood money

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 February 2010 Lloyd You state over 150 members have joined the group on FB. All I have to do is find it an I too can join, so can every trainmaster, corporate honch, railroad foamer ect...You're leaving yourself wide open.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 February 2010 Cond 10-20 Discussing anything on an open forum like FB ect...is stupidity. You have no control over who has access. Apparently you haven't read the news articles of people who have been fired from their jobs because of posting on an open forum thinking it was safe. The only secure venue is at union meetings. How can you critisise oldheads? We're not the majority voting power anymore we create no threat. You should be concentrating on those members of your generation that have been complacent. Those who have never attended a union meeting. Those who never participated in anything. Those are the ones you have to convince. There is no excuse for not getting involved no excuse for not sending in ballots start a campaign on educating people be tactful and not overbearing. The silent majority that excist is your biggest problem. Oldheads know one important issue votes count an if they pose a threat in your opinion then that's your generations fault. Your generation has more to lose and will have to to live with the changes. Our time is short. Majority rules in a democracy use it wisely or end up paying the consequenses.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 February 2010 Nomo, I'd say I agree with you 90 percent of the time but not on this issue. Places like myspace, facebook, and blogs are places for the new generation to talk about things and discuss what's going on. I'm not really a fan of any of them but when I checked they had 150 guys joined already. No one is in favor of this contract. If I read it right, it just seems like a plot to eventually cut back as much as possible and use utility men whenever possible to save paying people on an extra board. Sounds like a nightmare for anyone who has been with CSX for less than 10 years. I will definitely be checking the big N.O when I get my ballot in the mail...if it comes.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 February 2010 Hey Con 10-20: I totally agree that everyone needs to discuss the UTU SSA. However, discussing it on Face Book, Myspace or Twitter won't get it done. I'd be emailing and calling my Local and General Chairmen as well as International. I would mark off if I had to and attend every regular and special Local meeting. Discuss what direct questions should be asked in each different Local meeting over Face Book etc. You can bet you won't get a direct answer. Discuss what option, if any, you have under the UTU Constitution for removing the LCs and GCs. Discuss any legal options the membership has against the UTU. The UTU has an absolute obligation to fairly represent their members, if they don't there is recourse. http://www.utu.org/worksite/member-rights.htm http://www.dol.gov/ It's too bad more people haven't been involved in the day to day operations and politics of the union before now. They're complacent until something like this comes along; then all the non-participatory members come out of the woodwork screaming bloody murder. Last time I saw this much interest from the ground service personnel was when the H&W benefits were renegotiated back in '02 or'03.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 February 2010 Theres a forem on the CSX / UTU contract encurage everyone to join and discuss the good and the bad points of the contracts join and voice your concerns we all need to stand together on this we need to start being the New Railroad not like all the old heads before us just out for there self. the Forem is on Facebook in the groups the name of the group is Trainman Against CSX/UTU Contract.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2010 Stupidity like that is enough reason to leave the employ of CSX. Add in 30+" of snow on the ground and another 10"-12" due tonight and tomorrow might cause you to reconsider!

Name: sy E-mail: hmstoo@hotmail.com Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 February 2010 In response to 'me' about moving from Florida to Baltimore. You would be better off finding a new job in Florida. The working conditions in Baltimore are terrible. One brakeman was reprimanded for adjusting his hat while walking a train. He was told he should have stopped walking before adjusting his hat.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 February 2010 hey loco 30+ plus years you are right about the ns contract . CSX wants this bid system bad , if we vote this down they will want to go back to the table . The younger men need to realize the bid system will cut 10% of the work force , so back on the street you go.

Name: me E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2010 just got the call to move to baltimore from florida panhandle is b-more working or being sent home ? please let me know i will be moving my wife and five kids to a new place and i need to be working...thanks in advance............

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 February 2010 VOTE NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ON THE CONDUCTORS CONTRACT THE GENERAL CHAIRMEN ARE PUSHING IT BECAUSE THERE GONNA LOSE THERE JOBS IF IT DONT PASS. NO RAISES FOR 3 YEAR WHAT THE HECK, WILL TALK ABOUT HEALTHCARE ON A LATER DATE?????????????????????? OK SOUNDS FAIR TO ME. VOTE NO !!!!! OR ATLEAST READ THE CONTRACT DONT TAKE SOMEBODYS WORD FOR IT READ THE CRAP FOR YOURSELF.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2010 NoMo you are 100% correct.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2010 That's right No Mo if u make over your guarantee . Last half I did beat my guarantee but this half I'm not , so if this contact passes and I need off for a emergency I loose my Guarentee. Plus a 6% pay raise over a 5 year period that starts 2012 ; if u get in trouble (not only stayin marked up) you loose your stocks ! We don't even get a bonus until 2013 !!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 February 2010 Who dat say they gonna beat them Saints?

Name: JoshuaRogers E-mail: kayakguy303@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 February 2010 Vote the contract down! If you want a life Vote it DOWN!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 February 2010 I went to work for CSX approx 4 years ago.I paid $5000.00 plus room and board for schooling, lost wages for 6 weeks.All in all it cost me $10,000 plus for a job that wasn't worth squat. Quit a job I have been at 15 plus years for what. To be told I will be treated like a person with good pay and benifits! Hah! Laid off twice in the 2 years I was there, couldn't even get railroad unemployment the first year I was there as I wasn't there long enough. Was continually denied valid claims of labor agreements by them, denied my first year vacation pay. Safety was a joke, working two shifts in one day, continually being forced to do things because of producing what they want. I hardly ever called of work but employees that did were taken care of. Intimidated when I spoke up and voiced my rights. If you believe anything they tell you you will be sorry. Worst 2 years of my employment life.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 February 2010 CSXT, UTU Southern Region Employees Reach Tentative Agreement JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan 29, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT) and the United Transportation Union (UTU) have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year combined wage and performance bonus package. The agreement covers conductors and yard employees on CSXT predecessor railroads AWP, C&O, L&N, NC&StL and SCL. In addition to wage increases, employees will be eligible for payments from a Performance Bonus Plan that links that portion of their compensation to company financial performance. Affected employees will also be eligible for a stock-based Individual Performance Award program. Upon approval by the International UTU, the agreement will be subject to ratification by the affected UTU membership. "This is an important agreement that consolidates five former agreements into a single Southern Region UTU agreement that directly aligns the interests of our more than 4,000 United Transportation Union employees in this area with company goals to meet the expectations of our customers and shareholders," said Lisa Mancini, senior vice president-human resources. "We applaud the vision of the UTU in reaching a new agreement that rewards their membership when the company meets its financial and strategic goals." CSX Transportation Inc. is a principal operating company of CSX Corporation. CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the leading transportation companies, providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services. The company's transportation network spans 21,000 miles with service to 23 eastern states and the District of Columbia, and connects to more than 70 ocean, river, and lake ports. More information about CSX Corporation and its subsidiaries is available at the company's web site, www.csx.com. SOURCE CSX Transportation

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 January 2010 This big new consolidated utu contract is a real crock, no raises what so ever what kinda contract is this any ways, there just doing what they always do try to push something through before the national contract comes out, but im sure theres enough 58 year old conductors out there that dont care about raises over the next 20 years just to get that extra week vacation.( that they will pay 5000 dollars for in lost wages for no raise that year ). and crew callers looks like were gonna seal there doom in this super contract. THIS REALLY BLOWS!!!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 January 2010 Brakie " Does CSX not care about their public image especially when men were suspended during trainning." Mike Ward said reputation is everything. But he hired Tony Hitler Ingram and he fired and scared CSX employees into total dispare. Now he is gone I doubt it will change anytime soon with Brown. Does CSX ever care about anything? Should I really care?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 January 2010 I just want to ask a question and get some answers from guys who have worked for CSX as a trainman in regards to those men who were suspended during their on the job training. Is CSX required to call those men back or can they start again with hiring back off the streets, and would it not benefit CSX to come along with a buyout for those employees who are under a protected status and get the majority of those furloughed and suspended back. Does CSX not care about their public image especially when men were suspended during trainning.

Name: C&O JOE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 January 2010 Attn all suspended Trainees and long term furloughed Trainmen, As I mentioned in previous post, The Consolidated Southern Agreement which binds the former C&O, SCL, L&N, and all the little southern roads was distributed today to the LC. The carrier has promised you guys first refferal on the many Signal and Maintnance jobs that will be created to install and maintain the PTC. They project 100 jobs in my area alone. It won't be a solution for everyone, but it will for many.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 January 2010 Name: Jsmith E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 January 2010 I am in the process of writing a book about CSX and there so called safety policy, the harassment and intimidation and all the horror stories of how they have treated employees. If you guys want to share your stories feel free to email me at jsmith14449@yahoo.com. I only want true stories, not hear say or rumors. Need to be factual information. I promise you your name will not be mentioned anywhere,You dont even have to leave your name. If you setup a private email all I ask is that you check it later on to see If I contacted you with any questions. I wonder how much trouble I will get in by writing the book, I really dont care they can sue me if they want I dont have anything to lose, I had to have surgery and a month later they fired me. Please Email with your stories of this stinking companyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wonder how to write a book, send a message to a web site?? Get yourself a pad and go see them. You will never get the story until you sit in the living room with them. Call first make a date and show up on time. Or you will get the same next week as you got this week.

Name: Jsmith E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 January 2010 I am in the process of writing a book about CSX and there so called safety policy, the harassment and intimidation and all the horror stories of how they have treated employees. If you guys want to share your stories feel free to email me at jsmith14449@yahoo.com. I only want true stories, not hear say or rumors. Need to be factual information. I promise you your name will not be mentioned anywhere,You dont even have to leave your name. If you setup a private email all I ask is that you check it later on to see If I contacted you with any questions. I wonder how much trouble I will get in by writing the book, I really dont care they can sue me if they want I dont have anything to lose, I had to have surgery and a month later they fired me. Please Email with your stories of this stinking company

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 January 2010 They reached their job posting closing date and were taken down...like all of 'em.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 January 2010 I just visited the CSX career page and all those conductor jobs that were advertised several weeks ago are no longer there. Imagine that. Gee, I wonder what happened to them, were they filled or perhaps withdrawn?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 January 2010 The Unions do not know who they are sending stuff to or why. Perfect example of how Unions spend your money. The UTU spends more money on Booze and Comfy rooms, than it spends on defending any member! Check it out if you can get the numbers!

Name: been gone for 2 years E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2010 Hey Mr. "If any of you believe your jobs are coming back, or new jobs will be created, your head is in the land of OZ."..........................WELL SAID MAN!!!hahahahahahaha That right there should be put in the next union newsletter that comes out. I have not been in that crap hole for two years and I still get the news letter in the mail. Hey, they work well to start my fires during the winter. Keep them coming!!hahahahha

Name: C&O JOE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 January 2010 I wouldn't be to aginst system seniority as long as everyone was prior righted into their home rosters. I don't know how it works elsewhere, but those who have significant seniority and havn't been offered promotion isn't a big issue on the C&O because every time someone goes to engine school they establish seniority for every junior Trainman on the roster. They maintain that place as long as they don't decline it when it's offered. If they do decline it they fall behind the youngest trainman on the roster the day they passed it up. I'm guessing it's about the same everywere?

Name: averagejoe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 January 2010 you know what i agree most people on the rr are related and loved ones do get hired over more qualified people i had 2 intervues 1 the shop forman and his bitch was there to hand pick the people for the supposed recruiter a nigger who looked down on me while hiring his masstas white kin folk the second time no formen or anything only recruiters got the job that was over a year ago and still no word it was really embarissing for the first 6 months or so explaining to people why i wasnt at the rr yet so yes they do hire family for jobs that are for sure but they dont give a hoot about the imaginary jobs or the ones they know pple will be laid off from shortly so unless you were military or have high pull if you get a job there my observation is your bieng played as a fool or fucked from the get go

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 January 2010 System wide seniority might one day become a reality. I don't think it'll happen till pre-94 protected employees retire. As for moving around looking for work most of those hired the past 5 years or so aren't that motivated. I've seen several get furloughed stood for work in other places on their seniority zone and refused to go. How is system wide going to help them? The UTU still has in place the 30 mile radius rule where a person can't be forced to work outside of 30 miles from their home terminal. The BLE gave up that agreement years ago.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 January 2010 Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 December 2009 That is Pandora's Box. At the present time system wide seniority for engineers is getting some attention on CSX. The big question. How to do it and be fair an equitable? We have one big obstacle those hired after 1994. Those falling under the second UTU crew consist that forced people into engine service. Not all areas have sent people to engine service within three years of their hiring date. Apparently there are those with 10 years seniority who have not been promoted to engineer. Then we have those who voluntarily bypassed engine service because they had younger people who could be forced. The arguement is some believe it should be based on the original hire date as a trainmen. Others like myself believe it should be based on the seniority date into engine service. This becomes a matter of separation of crafts. The main reason CSX wants engineer system wide seniority is because 25% of CSX engineers on the former Conrail in the Northeast corridor aren't under the BLE SSA. CSX would like to incorporate them into other rosters to force them out of the national contract. It does away with those engineers freedom of choices. It kills CSX and the BLE to know that the Single System Agreement is a sham. It never will be a true single system till all engineers on CSX fall under one agreement. All I know is I'm glad to get out of here. When a union goes against their members it's core responsibility to protect it's members is lost. That goes for the UTU with selling out jobs for decades which backfired on it's membership like recently CSX going one man remote.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX System wide is just that, Hire date. Bid on any job that you want. WOW that is really GOOD. Most folks today can ride the cars or pull the throttle, Give them the chance to move around the system to find work.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 January 2010 Does anyone have any information that might help in a denied crossing claim...? Thanks In Advance.....

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2010 Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Baltimore, MD and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Baltimore, MD More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx - Baltimore, Maryland -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Syracuse, NY and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Syracuse, NY More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx - Syracuse, New York -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Selkirk, NY and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Selkirk, NY More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Richmond, VA and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Richmond, VA More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx - Richmond, Virginia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - New York, NY and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 December 2009 We read your post already in one section. It isn't necessary to post it in all sections.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 December 2009 If any of you believe your jobs are coming back, or new jobs will be created, your head is in the land of OZ. I personally don't and won't do anything for CSX unless I am expicitly told to do so. An example, I am told to walk to my engine and inspect it. Fine, No one can tell me how fast to walk. No one can tell me how to inspect my engine or the time limit to do it in. Paperwork? Broken pens, or the inspection forms not on the engine? I could care less. I call the yardie.......let him tell me where and how to get a pen or inspection forms. More time to relax. If I am relaxing, I can't get hurt. Oh, unless one of the many idiots that work here flat switch a car down into my track. Hard to believe but it does happen in this CSX yard. No, just don't care anymore. Don't care if I run out of time on single main track. Don't really care if I am late for work. Don't care if CSX doesn't pay me on time. My union guys will fix that for me. May take 2 to 3 years (without interest) but I'll get my money. Don't care that the radio has static when the dispatcher tries to call me. I don't move the train one inch until I fully understand what he or she wants. I am not allowed to use (and will not) my cell phone to move a train. I just wait X amount of time till the static on the radio stops. When I am stopped and a signal pops up.......I wait 2 or 3 minutes hopefully) to make sure it doesn't drop in front of me. I see a distant signal, I slow down, don't want that to drop on me either. It's just safer this way. Track speed 50mph.....45 is safer. Top restricted speed I operate at is 2 mph, which is very safe. CSX management should be proud of me, that I am sure of, because I haven't run thru any switches. All in all I like working here. Sure the hours are horrible,people show up for work late, in yesterdays clothes, smell like cigarettes teeth not brushed, but they are elite professionals. These elite professionals will show off to you and new hires by dispalying thier ignorance and stupidity of rules, regulations, and RR operations. But then my union reps or management will talk to the new hires and correct the problem,,,,,right? Well maybe the union or management talks to the elite professional and straightens him or her out. Yeah, thats what happens where I work. Never seen it personally, but "they" tell me it has happened. I feel safer when "they" tell me things like that. I am kinder to a stray dog, than to any union rep or CSX manager. I hold both in complete disgust and distrust. Both are liars, and thieves. What does the BLE do with my dues? Well in thier newsletters, complete with pictures, they are playing golf, in conference in Las Vegas, or discussing important union contracts at a nice resort location......so they can fully concentrate on the matters at hand. In closing, I,like many of you are nothing more than whores. CSX and the unions are the pimps. We get told how long to work. Where to work. How much we will get paid. How much longer am I going to be a whore? I don't know. I do know it is getting harder and harder to look at my self in the mirror. Are you brave enough to look in the mirror?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 December 2009 The carriers have been unsuccessful in having the case dismissed, but the BNSF and others continues to say the complaint is without merit...sure it is. This bears watching...it could have an enormous impact on the carriers! Lawsuit alleging rail collusion set to proceed A closely watched lawsuit seeking class-action status against the top U.S. freight railroads for allegedly colluding to inflate fuel surcharges by billions of dollars is set to proceed with seven small shippers as named plaintiffs, reports Dow Jones newswire. Stephen Neuwirth, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said it is unlikely that additional named shippers will be added to the suit by a Dec. 31 deadline. "We have a group of plaintiffs that is representative of the class," said Neuwirth, who has been appointed one of two co-lead counsels for the shippers. If the suit is certified as a class action, any shipper during the period of the allegations would be a member of the class and potentially eligible for damages. The top four U.S. freight railroads – BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific -- are defendants in the case. The railroads, which have been unsuccessful in efforts to get the case dismissed, have vehemently denied the allegations. The American Chemistry Council, a trade organization that includes many companies that ship products by rail, has claimed that the top four railroads and Kansas City Southern overcharged shippers by $6.4 billion through fuel surcharges between 2003 and early 2007. "We believe this is a multi-billion-dollar case," Neuwirth said, although he noted that the lawsuit hasn't asked for any specific damage amount yet. The shippers have until March 18 to file a motion seeking class-action status, followed by a hearing on the class certification, likely in September. The case is being handled by Judge Paul Friedman in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Investors have been taking a closer look at U.S. freight railroads recently, after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced plans in early November to buy the portion of BNSF that it doesn't already own, marking Buffett's largest acquisition. BNSF and some of the other railroads named in the lawsuit by shippers reiterated their positions this week that the complaint is without merit. "Simply stated, BNSF did not conspire to fix prices on anything," said Suann Lundsberg, a spokeswoman for BNSF. The shippers that have signed on to the lawsuit as named plaintiffs include Dust Pro Inc.; U.S. Magnesium LLC; Dakota Granite Co.; Strates Shows Inc.; Donnelly Commodities Inc.; Nyrstar NV; and Carter Distributing Co. (The preceding article was published by Dow Jones newswire.) December 29, 2009

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 December 2009 That is Pandora's Box. At the present time system wide seniority for engineers is getting some attention on CSX. The big question. How to do it and be fair an equitable? We have one big obstacle those hired after 1994. Those falling under the second UTU crew consist that forced people into engine service. Not all areas have sent people to engine service within three years of their hiring date. Apparently there are those with 10 years seniority who have not been promoted to engineer. Then we have those who voluntarily bypassed engine service because they had younger people who could be forced. The arguement is some believe it should be based on the original hire date as a trainmen. Others like myself believe it should be based on the seniority date into engine service. This becomes a matter of separation of crafts. The main reason CSX wants engineer system wide seniority is because 25% of CSX engineers on the former Conrail in the Northeast corridor aren't under the BLE SSA. CSX would like to incorporate them into other rosters to force them out of the national contract. It does away with those engineers freedom of choices. It kills CSX and the BLE to know that the Single System Agreement is a sham. It never will be a true single system till all engineers on CSX fall under one agreement. All I know is I'm glad to get out of here. When a union goes against their members it's core responsibility to protect it's members is lost. That goes for the UTU with selling out jobs for decades which backfired on it's membership like recently CSX going one man remote.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 December 2009 Just a Question? Why is seniority restriced to certain areas and not system wide?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 December 2009 NoMo Exactly!!! Anything that has a clause for opting out is tougher to get rid of in the long run. Seeing this opt out clause in the extension made people feel safer it became another round of "if we don't like it we'll vote it out next time". People aren't looking at it in the long term. Stagnant wages that haven't kept up with inflation means working more. Then not taking into consideration the new FRA safety regs that requires manditory rest. We had a proposal at one union meeting to do away with how rest days were structured. Some wanted to go from 2 back to back days off every half to one day off a week to try an circumvent the FRA manditory rest. At least with a gaurenteed two days off a half under the SSA it can be extented with early mark off at 2000 and late mark up at 0400. On the railroad no matter what happens there will be those who find fault. This new generation has to take off the blinders and start looking at how things will affect them in 10-20 years not what is good for them now. In the long run this might come back and bite them in the arse.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 December 2009 Hey Loco 30+: It's like a temporary tax that's only passed for 2 or 3 years. The only way it passes is if it's temporary; then it's forgotten about, extended and 20 years later you're still paying it!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 December 2009 People can bitch and complain all they want about the SSA. It was the BLE(T) membership who voted it in. For better words the lack of members who voted. That was pathetic. Something that is the core essential of everyday life on the railroad from wages to work rules a large percentage opted to sit on the sidelines because they were to lazy to take 5 minutes out of their life to mail a ballot. The blame rest solely on these individuals. The union brought it to us, we never had to accept it. The two biggest arguements from those who voted for it were 1) they didn't want to wait 2-3 years for the national contract negotiations 2) another dropout clause was added to the SSA for 2014. In my experience "drop out clauses" are useless once something happens it's here for good.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2009 Hey Loco 1-10: This time your beef is with the BLEt not CSX. If CSX doesn't want to pay after 15 hours great. I'm sure nobody wants to stay longer than that anyway. However, if that's the case it's incumbent on the BLEt to make sure that CSX maintains adequate manpower to rotate crews or run trains. Negotiations is at least bi-lateral, give and take. If the union doesn't fairly represent their membership, they are in breech of their duty and subject to legal recourse. The membership better get their shit together or suffer the consequences. There's nothing like a three way unless you're the one in the middle!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 December 2009 I think it will be a losing battle no matter what. This is what the company wants, and thats what the union will give them through negotiations, we've seen it all before. When everything is signed, the union will tell you how we got such a good deal. After everything is said and done, we'll find out that we got screwed again with side letters coming from all angles. Although I will agree on one thing, its time for the union to start being a union again! We have a lot of dead weight up top who aren't thinking about the people they're supposed to represent. The word is that this is going to be like June 1999 all over again. Does that mean we will also see changes even in the current SSA? Changes that will screw us even more? I've already heard that the company doesn't want to keep paying the continuous heldaway after 15 hrs. in the hotel.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2009 Why stop there? Why not consolidate the entire system? No prior rights...why would the BLEt even consider that? Sounds like the membership better hunker down because this battle will be fought on two fronts!

Name: robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 December 2009 The SSA is a piece of shit, which is why the engineers on the Conrail Northern roster voted it down. So, what does Csx do? They are going to expand the area of their seniority district, call it the Northern Mid-Atlantic District. This area will go from The Canadian border through Virginia and W Virginia, New Jersey to Western Ohio. They will implement the SSA (and the B+O agreement for conductors) on territories where it was voted down. "The proposed consolidation of seniority districts will not create any new prior rights. Current equity arrangements will be eliminated" I guess if the allmighty corporation can't negotiate what it wants, it will just ram it down our throats. Time for our fucking unions at the national level to step up, but my guess is we get boned again.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 December 2009 YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT....THEY ARE SELLING US OUT! I'M TIRED OF HEARING HOW THE COMPANY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT, AND HOW WE GOT A GOOD DEAL WITH THIS SSA. LITTLE BY LITTLE YOUR AGREEMENTS, WAGES, AND RIGHTS, ARE ALL BEING SOLD UP THE RIVER BY YOUR TOP UNION OFFICIALS. THIS KIND OF CONTRACT AND TREATMENT AMONG EMPLOYEES DIDN'T HAPPEN YEARS AGO BECAUSE THE UNION & CONTRACT WAS ALL ABOUT THE MEMBERS BEST INTEREST! TODAY YOUR UNION TOP OFFICIALS ARE BEING CAUGHT STEALING RED HANDED. PAUL T. SORROW IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE BLET, AND REMEMBER IN CASE YOU ARE NOT AWARE, HE IS THE MAN WHO NEGOTIATED THE SSA FOR CSXT. WHO DOES THE SSA BENEFIT MORE, THE MEMBERS OR THE CARRIER? PEOPLE BETTER OPEN THERE EYES!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 December 2009 Happy Holiday's to all my Union Brothers. Now that we have Demecrat White House and Congress, when do the good times start. SSA agreemet sucks and congrats to rhe conductors for now being the highest paid man on the crew. Merry Christmas to our contract negotiators for the SSA sell out. I'm sure your family has plenty of presents to pass around.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 December 2009 Merry Christmas to all my union brothers & sisters who just wanna go to work, do there job, get paid in a correct manner, and last but not least...not get hurt. December 24, 2009.......and CSX STILL SUCKS!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 December 2009 Everyone settle down. The UTU and BLET are looking out for our best interest(s), they don't care about dues, they care about us! Without the support of these Unions we would be making $8.00 an hour. Think about it.

Name: C&O JOE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 December 2009 To the loser who says CSX treats lumbee indians unequal: You say CSX has fired 20 of the 60 of you. Here's a news flash genius, CSX is firing everyone! It dosn't matter if you're black, white, yellow, red, or blue, CSX fucking hates us all equally! They do not discriminate in who they fire or follow around and harass. You're Engine ass better be saying over and out like everyone else or your gonna get the same treatment everyone else gets. I think the real issue here isn't that you're kind is being treated unfaily, it's the fact that your being treated like everyone else and not SPECIAL as your accustomed to. It's just like the cival rights movement over the last 15 years or so. They hide behind the banner of "equality" when in reality they achieved that long ago and the modern agenda is a really a push toward supremacy. I don't buy the shit you're trying to pass off as discrimination. In really you're mearly reaping the benifits of true equality, CSX style.

Name: averagejoe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2009 hey there guys it is the christmas season all times for happiness lol one year to the day csx told me i have a job but guess what no job the sad part is that i actually thought i would get a job seeing as my daddy didnt work for the rr, i wasnt in the military because i couldnt decide what i wanted to do for myself, or i dont like to suck on big hard harry jew peckers so to all you semi rich dick merry fuckin christmas tell csx to blow me cuase i still wont blow them for a job

Name: JJ Boyd E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2009 Just found out thet a long time fellow employee at collinwood ohio yard in cleveland has a snitch . he pretends to be your freind and the rats you out to the company . Conductor JIM BOYD may you rot in hell . the trainmaster are bad ,But you come from behind and stab your brothers in the back !!!! You better work in a well lighted area Jimmy boy

Name: sad E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 December 2009 i have heard that in the start of 2010 , everyone will be back to work. has anyone heard about this if so please let me know .....

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 December 2009 Dear All- I post this link for your consideration and comment: http://www.yardlimits.com/forums/legal-news-announcements/18954-bringing-light-sense-dlc-process.html Take Care & Be Safe.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 December 2009 ZOMG Tony Ingram is retiring at the end of december

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2009 Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2009 Hey Other: "Furthermore were does your sense of entitlement come from? What are you owed?" Let me see..."The Great Society" perhaps you're old enough to remember? Welfare, food stamps, public housing, Social Security, WIC, aid to dependent children, unemployment insurance and the list goes on and on. Although most of these programs existed before 1964, they were all greatly expanded after Johnson's reforms and the advent of the "Great Society". Everyone over the age of 45, two maybe three generations, is a child of the "Great Society", that's a huge percentage of the U.S. population. Money talks and bullshit walks, so as long as there are politicians there will be entitlement programs. They may ebb and flow depending on which party is in power but like taxes entitlements are here to stay! ********************************************************************** Oh you are so correct with the above statement, and to that we are a demon of our own creation, and only getting worse in today’s society of me first and something for nothing. No one has a good work ethic anymore and this was created by all of us who tried to provide for our families better than was provided for us! With all the programs that you mentioned above you as well as every one else are entitled to but, with that being said in the private work force what are you entitled to? Like I said before a paycheck? That’s it! I have had a pretty fortunate life provided by myself doing what is expected of me by myself and my family. This has been passed on to my children as well to create a sense of ownership in there future knowing that no one else is going to do it for you, so don’t expect it. Sadly this is not the case in today’s times everyone from GM to my neibores are looking for handouts. This has taken all of the accountability and responsibility out of the decisions we make making it easier to blame someone else when we fail. I sorry I don’t by it. All this attitude does is allow some one else to pay for your mistakes. This also confirms my last post but because I speak of accountability and responsibility I could not possibly be right, it’s always some one else fault that you did something wrong or the decisions you made didn’t work the way you planned… Its time people stand up and are accounted for… and stop crying about it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2009 Are you all really this pathetic? If you hate CSX this much really make a statement and quit. No; that’s what I thought just a bunch of cowards bitching about a company that you work for, imagine that. I might not be seeing the whole picture here but I know enough about unionized work forces to know that you have it very well if you still have a paycheck in this economy were layoffs and furloughs are the norm these days. Furthermore were does your sense of entitlement come from? What are you owed? I don’t work in your industry but a very similar field, were safety and on the job awareness is of the utmost importance, and if not respected in can have life ending consequences so safety is first and foremost your responsibility! With that being said back to my original questions what are you entitled to? What are you owed? Let me tell you so you don’t hurt yourselves thinking about it…..It’s a paycheck, its that simple, if your work your entitled to get paid, that it. If your looking for someone to blame, I have an idea, blame yourselves. If you read this and listen this is true. When was the last union meeting you were at? Do you even know were the meetings are, on what day and when? This is how you are to blame, no participation in your own labor organization and there for your local officers are elected on a good ol’boys club way of doing things, they are in it for themselves and only themselves, but you put them in there. Do you understand how your General Chairman & Vice General Chairman are elected? Here’s a hint by the people who are in the local positions that you elected. Now these people who are looking out for #1 and that isn’t you have free rein to put in people just like themselves in the next level the labor organizations to which you pays dues, oh I almost forgot offices are probably right next to the companies main offices, correct? I wonder why that is, let me tell you because they can! Because you allow it! Because of your lack of interest in your own local, were you pay dues to, were you don’t care what goes on at…….. So back to what started this rant, just resign I am sure that will fix all of your problems at least with CSX it will. No you won’t do that though; why; because they aren’t handing out 60-70K or more a year jobs every day, that’s why! So bitch all you want to because most of you are just hypocrites coming on here to bitch at how bad you have it working for this company that gives you a paycheck so you can provide for yourself and your family. That’s right I’m wrong, here’s an idea, if it’s that bad were you are get up go look yourself in the mirror and blame him, then get involved locally and do something about it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 28 November 2009 when are we gonna stop fighting each other? and start going after the railroads? do you know you can sue your officals in court for ? or make their personal lives miserable? hey? they wanna fuck with your job and your family ? lets start fucking with them? do it in a way no one will ever know? catch them in any act? go after them in your off time? dont stalk them but? well you get the idea ? you guys that are apes better wake up? officials are not your buddies

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 November 2009 Here they go again...best thing that could happen to the UTU is decertification...save all the members a lot of money! http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=49790

Name: Big Railroad Johnson E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 November 2009 NoMo When were you ever at Hawethorne? By the way do you really know how to use adjectives correctly. This is a FACT Base Company aka CSX Yea Right!! Sounds absurb? I would find your thinking is out of line just like the adjective of preposterous in your post below. Big Railroad Johnson

Name: US Justice Department E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2009 The following article is proof that millions of dollars in FELA (Railroad employee injury claim) do NOT go to the injured railroad worker - they go to GREASE THE GREEDY PALMS of the Unions, Railroads, and lawyers around the country. This is just the tip of the iceberg - it is NOT an 'isolated' incident.... railroad carriers, including CSX, spend BILLIONS a year on FELA claims, about 20 TIMES that spent by comparable state workers compensation (non-railraod FELA type) employee claims. It does not take a rocket scientist to see this payment imbalance is VASTLY out of whack. So, WHY IS THERE SUCH AN IMBALANCE OF PAYMENTS? What do FELA claims cost so much more than identical state claims? For every $100 a state system pays, FELA pays $2,000.00 For example, over the course of one year the UP paid out $5 Billion in FELA claims (yes, $1.5 billion!!), while state compensation programs with the same number of workers with the same injuries paid out $300 million - by any calculation, that difference is statistically IMPOSSIBLE - unless there is a MASSIVE KICKBACK PROGRAM in place and running smoothly wtihout interuption. Where does all that FELA money go - billions of dollars of overpayments between the four big railroad - UP, NS, BNSF, and CSX????? It sure doesn't go to the injured railroad workers. Railroad Managers, Directors and Executives in charge of administering FELA claims are in the absolute unchecked perfect position to take HUGE kickbacks from Unions, and from Union appointed FELA attorneys - everyone gets rich in this game....Unions get a kickback from FELA attorneys, FELA attorneys get pumped up settlement awards approved by railroad execs. Yes, you can bet that CSX FELA claims executive get kickbacks from both FELA attorneys and Union bosses. THIS IS WHY FELA CLAIM PAYMENTS ARE 20 TIMES HIGHER THAT STATE RUN WORKERS COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, and is why the Railroad 'system' will NEVER get rid of FELA - it is TOO DAMN LUCRITIVE FOR THE CROOKS TO GIVE IT UP - at the sole expense of the stockholder AND the injured railroad worker. For decades we have heard about how 'fake' railroad workers' injury claims have driven up the cost of FELA payments. Now you know its BULLSHIT!!!!!! The whole damn FELA system needs to be investigated and the crooks need to be cleaned out!! Here's the blurb posted earlier by Bubba. Trust me, the BLET president is NOT the only one getting rich off the FELA system - there are hundreds of others who are getting kickbacks too. If the BLET's president spills his guts to cut a deal, many more heads will roll - and you can bet it will include a cadre of union AND railroad executives as well as a boodle of corrupt lawyers... If you who are reading this know of similar illegal FELA kickback schemes, contact your local U.S. Department of Justice field office. **************************************************************** BLET PRESIDENT ARRESTED ON BRIBE CHARGE ( press release issued by U.S. Justice Department, Eastern District, St. Louis, Missouri). Edward W. Rodzwicz, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, was arrested on a federal complaint charging him with bribery, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael W. Reap announced Oct. 13. Rodzwicz is the sitting president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), a national labor union with over 55,000 U.S.A. railroad members. It is a division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). According to affidavit filed with criminal complaint, BLET maintains a list of designated legal counsel (DLC), who are recommended to their membership to handle injury cases under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA). DESIGNATION AS A DLC GENERATES VERY LUCRITIVE BUSINESS FOR (UNION) DESIGNATED FELA ATTORNEYS. The national president of the BLET has final authority over the designation of FELA attorneys. In February 2009, an internal compliance committee recommended that a particular DLC attorney for the BLET should lose his designation, due to alleged violations of DLC Rules of Conduct. On March 10, 2009, Rodzwicz approached that attorney in Little Rock, Ark., and solicited a payment from that attorney in exchange for allowing him to retain his DLC designation. The DLC attorney contacted the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General. In subsequent meetings at the attorney's office in St. Louis, and at Harrah's Casino, Las Vegas, Rodzwicz solicited and agreed to accept a cash payment of $10,000 from the attorney, plus the promise of an additional cash payment of $10,000 after Rodzwicz allowed him to retain his designation. Rodzwicz accepted a cash payment from the attorney on April 28, 2009, in Las Vegas, and he sent a letter allowing the attorney to retain his designation on May 1, 2009. He accepted a second cash payment of $10,000 from the attorney on Sept. 16, 2009, in Kansas City, Mo. The complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Missouri last week and remained suppressed until the arrest of Mr. Rodzwicz this morning by agents with the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, at his home in Avon, Ohio. Daniel R. Petrole, acting inspector general, U.S. Department of Labor, stated: "Union members expect that their officials will do what is right on their behalf. If these allegations are proven, there has been a serious breach of the union members' trust. My agency will continue to work with the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate this type of crime." Rodzwicz, 63, was charged with one violation of 18 U.S.C. section 666, bribery in connection with a federally funded program; and one violation of 18 U.S.C. section 1952, interstate travel to carry on unlawful activity. He made his initial appearance this afternoon in Cleveland. If convicted, 18 U.S.C. section 666 carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000; 18 U.S.C. section 1952 carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000. The charges set forth in a complaint are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. October 14, 2009. ********************************************************************

Name: bubba E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 November 2009 NoMo, U the man, wish we had more guys like you around.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 November 2009 Padding his time slip while at Hawthorne...preposterous! I loved when they wanted to piss test me...rush us in and tell me to see the TM. Always peed before I got off the engine ... always made at least 4 hours of OT...sometimes I just said "times up" and left, they couldn't do a thing about it...HOS and all that you know. Learn to play their game and make money!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 November 2009 Todesengel You might recall Rick Weed got caught padding his time slip when he was (NOT Really) working as a Hawethorne Yerd Master. Now he is moving up the ladder with his GED at CSX. No where else !!!! Maybe he did something else to get some overtime. He must be doing something useful for someone.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 November 2009 Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2009 csx treats lumbee indians unequal. we are from pembroke nc and they have fire 20 of 60 lumbees for unfair things.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Must be firewater. White folks sold it to you and took everything that the many indian nation's had. Shameful, now go get them with the Casino's and smokeshops, and make em pay up. I really love it when the Fed's come a hunting indian business and can't get a grip on the money. Pay back is long term.

Name: Todesengel E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 November 2009 In response to "The Lowdown On detoit Trainmasters" The bottem line is NO one in the manger crafts ever have to suffer much,no matter what they have done.Anyone from the T&E department would be fired;these guys took early retirements,went back to their crafts or faced a demotion.They get away with murder.Ask Rick Reed;he is a piece of dung but the company does nothing to him.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2009 csx treats lumbee indians unequal. we are from pembroke nc and they have fire 20 of 60 lumbees for unfair things.

Name: Soon to retire E-mail: Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for N/A Posted: 13 November 2009 I have spent a lot of time reading these posts! I am surprised to learn that many of us at CMC are oblivious to much of what happens to T&E! The T&E have my upmost respect for the demanding hours and job that they do. But, working the desk that I work, I must say I understand the frustration! Its frustrating for T&E when when some at CMC give you a hard time, but its also frustrationg for callers as well. We are constantly "monitored" I hate hearing that callers are to blame for many of the problems that T&E encounter! Many (not all I know) callers will help with what they can! But we are with our own limits as to what we are able to do. Doing someone a "favor" that is just not possible without getting a caller in hot water (sometimes suspension) is just not worth it. It gets frustrating for us when people "shoot" the boards just to avoid work! Or marks off sick just because they dont want to catch a certain train or dont want to work with who they are paired up with! After working an area so long you start to know whos who and what they do. Our job is to call the trains. when we delay them we have to answer as to why (to more than one person,) and that gets old quick! (Communication is NOT the strong suit of the company, as I am sure many of you know) Running the rosters is what we must do to try to get a crew for the train! If we dont "look" for people to work what we are delaying then thats a write-up for us! and after so many of those it goes to "counseling" and then sometimes an investigation! So yes getting a crew for a train is my #1 priority, its my job. And I am well aware that it gets aggravating for many to have their phones ringing all night! (I personally hate calling people that I know are asleep) I can go on and on here but any employee should understand what I mean. We are under a union contract just as the T&E are! A contract thats violated so often I cant keep up! To get days off the correct way is sometimes nearly impossible for us as well. Ive had to miss many family things due to that. So please try to remember that the callers are not there to "screw" anyone! We are not all bad! Please don't group us all as 1 in the same! Because I really cant think of anyone that I call that would say I am mean or disrespectful to anyone that calls in! I think most would say that I am helpful and try to get a resolution to any problems that one may have! I cant wait to see the responses I get to this! I look forward to reading them! Caller I

Name: Former CSX E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 November 2009 CSX and the union both have their problems. If you are sick of paying your union dues....look into the Beck Law. At least CSX pays you. you union takes you money with no payback. Heck you cant even vote on stuff. I thought you were supposed to be tight.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 November 2009 THE LOWDOWN ON THE DETROIT TRAINMASTERS RECENTLY ALL 5 TRAINMASTERS AT ROUGEMERE YARD IN DEARBORN MI WERE PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE BY THE NORTHERN REGION MANAGER CINDY SANBORN. THE 4 WERE ACCUSED OF LETTING CREWS STEAL TIME, COVERING UP RUN THROUGH SWITCHES, DERAILMENTS AND INJURIES. AMONG THOSE ACCUSED WAS JIM HORNER, DETROITS TERMINAL MANAGER WHO IS ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED OFFICIALS ON THE ENTIRE CSX SYSTEM BY BOTH T&E EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS OTHER OFFICIALS. LAST FRIDAY THEIR FATE WAS HANDED DOWN BY DIVISION MANAGER JEFF WHITE. MR. HORNER AS WELL AS TM GORDON WILSON WERE FORCED TO RETIRE WHILE TM JOE TUCKER WAS DEMOTED AND TM BOB BARNHARD WAS ALLOWED TO GO BACK TO CRAFT AS CONDUCTOR. THE 5TH TRAINMASTER JASON HARRIS WAS GIVEN A GOLDEN TICKET OUT OF THE DIVISION TO AVON INDIANA WHERE HE HAS WANTED TO GO SINCE ARRIVING AT DETROIT. SO WHY DID THE OTHER 4 GET FIRED AND NOT JASON YOU ASK, WELL MR HARRIS IS THE ONE WHO STARTED ALL OF THIS BY SQUEELING LIKE THE FAT PIG HE IS TO THE REGIONAL MANAGER ABOUT THE WRONG DOINGS IN DETROIT AND ABOUT HOW HE WAS TIRED OF HAVING HIS JOB THREATENED. MR HARRIS DID MORE COVERING UP THAN THE OTHER 4 TRAINMASTERS COMBINED, INCLUDING TAKING CASH FROM A CREW TO COVER UP A RUN-THROUGH SWITCH AND PERSONALLY COMPLETING TIME TICKETS FOR CREWS. MR.HARRIS SPENT THE MAJORITY OF HIS TIME IN DETROIT SHOPPING ON EBAY AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ESCAPE THE DREADED CHICAGO DIVISION. THEN 2 MONTHS AGO WHILE AT A MANAGERS MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA HE DECEIDED TO OPEN HIS FAT MOUTH AND BETTER HIS CAREER BY RUINING THE CAREERS OF 4 OTHER MEN. THE CSXT MANAGMENT AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WITHIN THE NORTHERN REGION DID NOTHING TO INVESTIGATE MR HARRIS'S CLAIMS. IF THEY HAD THEY WOULD HAVE SEEN WHO THE REAL SHITBAG WAS AND SHOVED THE WHISTLE UP THE FAT WHISTLEBLOWERS ASS. SO IF YOU WORK IN OR OUT OF AVON YARD WATCH YOUR ASS. WHETHER YOUR A UNION EMPLOYEE OR AN OFFICIAL, BE CAREFUL BECAUSE JASON HARRIS WILL STEP ON YOU TO GET TO THE TOP. (OR EVEN JUST TO GET OUT OF YOUR DIVISION)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 02 November 2009 anyone hear about csx employees stealing time in detroit, trainmasters and road forman getting fired also?

Name: TRUTH-NO LIES E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 October 2009 CSX Sux is the correct name for the local Russel, Kentucky roundhouse, Raceland Yards, and Huntington Repair Shop in Huntington, WV. The bald headed sucker that does the hiring really looks and acts like he is straight from Russia. He walks into interviews like he is being bothered to see you and thinks his shit don't stink. Unless your last name is one of his sucks your family will never have the opportunity to be able to work for the railroad. Experience and schooling does not mean anything with CSX in the Tri-State Area of Ashland, ky / Ironton, Ohio / and Huntington, Wv. I hope the Russian gets his one day as all people do. The railroad in our area really sux as they have leaks in tank cars in the Raceland yard and causes business to shut down and don't bother to pay the local businees employees or loss of busniess due to their stupdiness and no concern for human life. The big shot Mr. Russian bald head run around like he was trying to hide the mess he created. The local news media did let it get out after people in the local cities of raceland, worthington, and wurtland was evacuated and local business was close. SHAME ON CSX for not leaving a man in control of this area of the railroad who has no concern for the people living in the area near the railroad. I have lived here for 56 years and it is the worst I have ever seen it. CSX REALLY DOES SUCK!

Name: Red E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 October 2009 Hey Russell Conductor, I woundnt be worried about the restriction of senority of on Russell I2 jobs at Hinton, I would be worried about why their putting your jobs on at some place other then your home terminal! Makes a lot of since for the company to add jobs at terminal 167 miles away from your home. They are hoping you Russell guys dont take them. That way both Hinton and Russell crews lose and CSX wins like always.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 October 2009 Here's something all you old head T&E should enjoy...you know what I'm talking about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkkM7K6smQA

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 October 2009 October 18, 2009 & CSX still SUCKS! Cheap Skate Xpress

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 October 2009 Anybody know why they are restictin Russell senority on the I2 pooles at Hinton when the contract clearly says Russell men have first rights to them. Labor Relations told me that there is a magic number on the roster and that number is 2214 so if you younger than than your not allowed to mark up on them but if your older you can. What the hell, does senority even matter who cares if I'm younger thatn that if a older man wants the job then he will kick me.

Name: cindy mills E-mail: cindy2989@aol.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 October 2009 My husband worked for csx for 29 years he died in 2002 since then i have got nothing from the railroad no answers to any of my questions i am in the process of forcloser on my home i have received none of my husbands penison the problem is my husbands ex-wife has worked for the railroad in the office and she has changed paperwork at csx so i would no be able to recieve anything i cant get anyone to help me because they are all friends with her so i have lost everything because of this I can prove everything i am saying but no body will listen no body will return none of my calls i hate to say this but csx transportation has distroyed me and caused me to lose everthing my husband work for i hope one day someone from csx will call me and listen to what i have to say it has been 7 years since my husband died an i havent go one red cent from csx railroad or anything to help me in any way i am disable and just trying to live and they have been the rudest people i have ever had to deal with it seems at a time like this they would try to work with familys of deceasted employees not try to distroy them thanks to anyone for listening cindy mills 7704246675

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 October 2009 On Columbus Day while everything is shutdown up north except the RR; the UTUIA decides to announce this: http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=49273 Nice going guys, You're so full of shit a Fleet enema won't help! Mike, you're the next one goin' to prison...what will that be...4 in a row!

Name: dillweed E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 October 2009 CSX sucks almost as bad as the Unions that they own. I don't care if it is BLE or UTU- they both suck CSX D. and they both screw the Union members. I guess the RR used to be a decent job. Those days are long gone by. With the FRA hos laws in place, they have pretty much capped our pay. F all the BS.

Name: fuck E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 October 2009 yall must work for bnsf

Name: Dead Peasant E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 October 2009 http://jonathanturley.org/2009/02/25/peasant-uprising-widow-sues-late-husbands-employer-over-dead-peasant-insurance-policy/ "the employer of her late husband Daniel Johnson was to receive $1.6 million after his death under a practice known in the industry as a “dead peasant” insurance policy. Under this common practice, employers take out life insurance on employees and write off the payments as a business expense. They then collect a windfall when one of the “peasants” die." CSX do this?

Name: Thanks for Nothing E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2009 There is a lot of truth in this site. I tried for over a year to get a career started with CSX through two testing sessions and two job interviews. The jobs was for the Russell roundhouse and the Russell yard. Both were a waste of my time and theirs as it was all a put on for the public. Mr. Skinhead (the top management offical) was very obnoxious and acted as if he was retarded. During the interviews he acted like it was a bother for him to be there. Of course it was as he knew who was going to get the jobs. The very people that are complaining about working. I was willing to work any shift any hour and start with a forward look to a new career with responsibility. But instead I was treated like I was a crimminal and wasting his time for showing up to take a test he probably can't pass and never saw as he probably had the inside track for his job. I was at first disppointed that I didn't get a career to enjoy but after I found out how the positions were filled I jumped with joy. Whoever you knew the most in top management at CSX got you the job, not on your skills that could be used for the commpany's interest. Well Mr. Skinhead I hope you enjoy the people you hired and get everything coming to you. I hope the company sees the truth in you and puts you on skidrow where you belong. No wonder people are complaining if all CSX management likes the look of you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 24 September 2009 Ok. YOu win. My real name is Mike Ward.

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 September 2009 OK! I see you like to my screen name. I wonder if you are Man enough to come out and give us your real name! You can play all the games you want, but you are starting to bore the he'll out of me. I am starting to beleive this is Suckassalot that is using my name. After all only he would come up with constant anal penetration. Come on now GET A LIFE! Go play with Bonzo your wife and use your own screen name! You are nothing but a Fucking loser- What Happened to you while you were growing up? I wonder that your mother didn't give you the hugs & kisses, did she spike you on the floor like a football or did she let your father, uncles and their friends & neighbors molest you! I could go on but your not even worth it, life is short just like yourself with nobody wants to be your friend you are what other people would call a No Life Hermit. What is your pupose in life? Why do you choose to try & Fuck with my name and post your Bullshit! Forget it you FUCKING JUNGLE CRICKET!

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 September 2009 Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. We here at CSX do really not appreciate your concerns of Safety, Behaviors of Train Masters, and other Supervision Personnel. I am going to launch a missle into these concerns. I have also created a more aggressive team of Nazi Investigators headed by the recreated Home Office of the Mobile Officer I. (HOMO I). This Office will Investigat all the Claims that were posted here and forward the results to the proper Personnel for interrogation and torture, and will stick a spike up your ass. HOMO I will also Ignore all alledged white collar crime and thoroughly investigate all union thefts that have been increasing of CSX Property. There will be a change of Command so there will be total confusion such the CSX Police will no longer fall under Stupidity and Lackies- They will be deployed under the new name of Honor Organization Mobile Offfice II (HOMO II) Units this Unit will fall under the Un-enforcement Arm of HOMO I. The Newly created HOMO I Office of the HOMO II mployees are Sworn Nazi Enforcement Whores of Transporation Surrogates (NEWTS) Federal Commishoned Special Agents. I must inform all Employees that the Newly created Office is unlike the CSX Police. They are Naked Homo Special Agents they can be Identified by their issued Fig Leaves and rusty spikes just for Suckassalot. If encountered by a Naked Agent you are to give full compliance (bend over) or face formal Discipline Charges. The Office of the HOMO will also Investigate all baseless Threats, Racial Descrimination, Etc. CSX has an absolute Tolerence Policy for Work Place Violence, Racial Discrimination and Sexual Fornication. All Reports, including videos and pictures, will be forwarded to myself for my personal private review and will be dealt with accordingly. This can or will lead up to Promotion and Six Sigma training for any managment personnel, and Termination and Criminal Charges on any union employee violators. The Selection Process has already started with a few members in here by utilyzing their Information Provided and their Home HTML Connections, such as NoMo, RRJ, Lloyd, Suckassalot, Sam the Slave, Binheer2long, Goober, and many others. I am Pleased to Provide an Extra layer of Protection on our Dedicated Managers and Supervisors, and stick spikes up the asses of jackoffs like suckassalot. I would like to Thank You for taking out time to read this Announcement. Have a very Safe Day. M. Ward All stupid Employees are Required to have your CSX Idetification visable at all times while on Company Property.

Name: Mike Ward E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 23 September 2009 Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. We here at CSX do really appreciate your concerns of; Safety, Behaviors of Train Masters, and other Supervision Personnel. I am going to launch a Investigation into these concerns. I have also created a more aggressive team of Investigators headed by the recreated Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This Office will Investigat all the Claims that were posted here and forward the results to the proper Personnel. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will also Investigate all alledged white collar crime as well as Thefts that have been increasing of CSX Property. There will be a chain of Command so there will be no confusion such the CSX Police will no longer fall under Security and Safety- They will be deployed under the new name of Mobile Tactical Units this Unit will fall under as the Enforcement Arm of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The Newly created Office of the Inspector General(OIG) Employees are Sworn Law Enforcement Officials (LEO) Federal Commishoned Special Agents. I must inform all Employees that the Newly created Office is unlike the CSX Police. They are Plain Clothed Special Agents they can be Identified by their issued Credentials and Badge. If encountered by a Special Agent you are to give full compliance or face formal Discipline Charges. The Office of the Inspector General(OIG) will also Investigate all Threats, Racial Descrimination, Etc. CSX has a Zero Tolerence Policy for Work Place Violence and Racial Discrimination. All Reports will be forwarded to myself for review and be dealt with accordingly. This can or will lead up to Termination and Criminal Charges on any violators. The Selection Process has already started with a few members in here by utilyzing their Information Provided and their Home HTML Connections. I am Pleased to Provide an Extra layer of Protection on our Dedicated Employees. I would like to Thank You for taking out time to read this Announcement. Have a very Safe Day. M. Ward All Employees are Required to have your CSX Idetification visable at all times while on Company Property.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 September 2009 Your CSX Union Madman is a Homophobic Bigot. Pitiful.

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 September 2009 HELLO, HELLO! Safety Strike , Nomo & Others ! Have you even read what I POSTED! Damn you guys are Ignorant or Blind! I have said that we do have the right to REFUSE! Any job that can or will put us in harms way! We are all Granted this Right under the FRA. Why are we bitching when there is a route there already! The Company can not retaliate against you! Once you excercise you right to Refuse! No.1, Document the Situation and have witnesses sign it. If no witness is there then document it yourself! Try to Excersise this right with the proper Supervision! If nothing is done then Report it to the FRA! Point Blank This is our Rights that you may not know of or the Company hides from you! I am tired of hearing the Bitching! We have our Rights so let's use them! The Company can tell us 1 Thing but it is up to the FRA that throws in the Final Ruling!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 September 2009 HOMOPHOBIC BIGOTRY....

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 September 2009 Hey Suckassalot, The only thing I would like to scream is YOU when I find out who you are! A Bitch can run but can't hide forever. Your name will be found out & I will be more than happy to share it here! Your days are running out you Bitch Ass Homo.

Name: JLB E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2009 I will have to be honest, I really wonder how many of you really work for CSX because the better majority of you sound like disgruntled "railfans" may have known the management & TM's but never got on because of your lack of education. All I will say is grow the heck up!

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 17 September 2009 Monkey Boys, Your next assignment: http://www.stinalisa.com/HokeyPokey.html Love and Kisses, Lord SuckaLot CSX Executive Handmaiden to God

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 September 2009 How I would love to drive a spike between the eyes of suckassalot! There is only word to describe sirsuckassalot & that is 100% LOSER! Too much time on his hands to be any kind of Employee! So here is some words of advice you, Monkey! Sit back & read but don't post you should enjoy it while you choke on a banana! Turn red & blue then just Die! You will not be missed at all. Nobody ever misses an asshole such as yourself! I wonder are you enjoying yourself or are you really that bored? It's time to seperate the Idiots from the Men! How could you call yourself a real man, after all you admit that you are a Flaming Homo! I guess your mother is proud of her long lost little girl! Now I must admit I was against abortions but after reading your posts you are mainly 1 that escaped! This dosen't at all excuse you! Please just let me find out who you are, I will eventually find out it dosen't take a rocket scientist either. A Monkey that you are will try to avoid detection after all that's a Monkey's natural defense. You are definetly overdue for a confrontation! I don't care what you try to respond back with. A mind is a shameful thing to waste, but as we can tell your mind is Gone! Now as for a comeback it is way to late! Once a Retard always a Retard that there is no if's or but's about it. So go Fuck Your own Monkey Ass! Obey this as if were M. Wards Directive. Remember Managers like to obey & not to disapoint a Directive, you are sure a run in a mil along with the other Suck Ups in Management!

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 September 2009 CSX TRANSPORTATION " How We Move to Destroy Jobs and the Work Forces " NEW JOB POSTING CSX HEADQUARTERS Jacksonville, FL. TITLE: HEAD MASTER SALARY: VARIES $4.50 HR - Access Card Deposited HOURS: M - F WITH MADNATORY WEEKENDS. HOURS: 7A- 3P BUT SUBJECT TO 24 HOUR RULES. DUTIES: Wipe the Asses of all of Senior Mangement. This includes and is not limited of using your tounge in place of toilet paper. Computer skills are not required, a pencil and paper is acceptable since the price of printer ink is outrageous. Must be an Alcohol or Narcotics user at all times. Must at all times think that you are better than all Unionized Employees. QUALIFICATIONS - Pre School Dropout, No Common Sense, Drools, Basic Math, Writing. RETARDS will Be the first prefence with an additional 5500 Points. College Degrees will place in last prefence with -2500 Points. This job was created for a Brown Noser who's Name is suckalot! All others Need Not Apply.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 September 2009 Lord suck a lot....a person who thinks he/she is clever, witty, etc. How sad that one who obviously suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder does not see what a fool he/she is - of course those who suffer from the disorder never see themselves for what they are. Lord Suck - you need help.

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 September 2009 My oh my, Suckalot talks alot of shit! Corporate idiots are chosen and hired by the severity of retardation,isn't this correct suckassalot! The Corporation seems to be looking for a handout from the Government point blank. How much money was wasted to buy Conrail! This was a failure that is being shoved on the employees by forms of furloghs. Too bad people want to joke around with somebody's livelyhood. It does not suprise me that he talks about knob polishing, such a flaming Homosexual. I bet he's into child porn also. The way he tries to be creative is a waste of talent that makes it no wonder that he does work in Corporate. I have to ask that will he e er admit his real name or is he such a coward and continue to hide and post stupid comments! I am not even going to put myself through this Bullshit. I have better things to do instead of trying to make out his useless comments. Hello suckassalot, you must have plenty of time on your hands, I know you must be Furloghed yourself! The RRB Unemployment sucks dosen't it you have to sit there and wait for your pay every 2 weeks. The Corporate side isn't anymore protected than a tick on a dog's ass. I have seen Managers come and go for years now and it dosen't bother me one bit. As for you a speck in a Corporate world change can happen over night, in our world we can just bump, transfer etc. and still have a job. CSX Sucks dosen't it that they hired just to fire you. What a waste of a college degree just to wind up unemployed. So you can continue your useless life by posting all the dumb comments you want! but just remember we are the backbone of this pathetic corporation. Madman the Enemy of all Corporations

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 September 2009 Hello friends, I would just like to take this time to wish everyone a Happy Labor Day! It's September 7, 2009.....Although I hate to say it, CSX Still SUCKS!

Name: ME E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 06 September 2009 I got this the other day please tell what should i do?? PERMANENT TRANSFER TO CORBIN/LOYALL, KY OR SELKIRK, NY THE COMPANY IS OFFERING TO ALL CSXT TRAIN SERVICE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE IN ACTIVE SERVICE ON AUGUST 27, 2009, ON THE DATE OF THIS BULLETIN, (INCLUDING FURLOUGHED STATUS) AT THE ABOVE CSXT LOCATIONS LISTED AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERMANENTLY TRANSFER TO CORBIN/LOYALL, KY OR SELKIRK, NY. VACANCIES BEING FILLED BY THIS TRANSFER NOTICE: LOCATION DISTRICT CORBIN/LOYALL, KY L&N CONSOLIDATED KENTUCKY SELKIRK, NY CR NORTHERN CONSISTENT WITH THE NEEDS OF SERVICE, CSXT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT THE LOCATIONS TRAINMEN ARE SELECTED FROM, AND TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF TRANSFERS WHICH WILL BE GRANTED. APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM CSXT TRAIN SERVICE EMPLOYEE IN ACTIVE SERVICE (INCLUDING FURLOUGHED STATUS) FROM ALL LOCATIONS AND FROM THE CLASS OF SERVICE SPECIFIED. APPLICANTS MUST BE APPLYING FOR A MOVE OUTSIDE OF THEIR CURRENT SENIORITY DISTRICT. APPLICANTS WILL BE SELECTED BY LOCATION IN SENIORITY ORDER. HOWEVER, THE CARRIER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT APPLICANTS IF THEY HAVE ANY FORMAL DISCIPLINE ASSESSED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS UNDER EITHER IDPAP OR THE ABSENTEEISM POLICY. TRAINMEN WHO ACCEPT THIS OFFER WILL FORFEIT HIS/HER CURRENT SENIORITY AND WILL CONTINUE AT PRESENT RATE PROGRESSION LEVEL FOR PAY PURPOSES AND VACATION ENTITLEMENTS ONLY ON THE NEW DISTRICT. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PERMANENT TRANSFER: 1. RELINQUISH ALL OPERATING CRAFT SENIORITY, INCLUDING CONDUCTOR/ TRAINMEN, ENGINEER/FIREMEN AND YARDMASTER. 2. ESTABLISH TRAINMAN'S SENIORITY AT THE NEW TERRITORY UPON THE FIRST DATE OF QUALIFYING ON THE NEW TERRITORY AND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ROSTER AND BEHIND ANY CURRENT TRAINEES. 3. RETAIN YEARS OF SERVICE FOR VACATION ENTITLEMENTS. 4. BE PAID TO QUALIFY ON THE NEW TERRITORY FOR UP TO 30 DAYS. 5. RECEIVE ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION PER THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE; $1,000 UPON PROOF OF ARRIVING AT THE NEW LOCATION $2,000 UPON QUALIFYING ON THE NEW TERRITORY $4,000 12 MONTHS AFTER QUALIFYING $3,000 24 MONTHS AFTER QUALIFYING 6. APPLICANTS SELECTED FOR TRANSFER MUST REMAIN AT THE LOCATION THEY ARE CHOSEN FOR, SENIORITY PERMITTING, FOR TWO (2) YEARS. DURING THE TWO YEAR PERIOD, THE EXERCISING OF SENIORITY TO ANOTHER CONSOLIDATED SENIORITY DISTRICT LOCATION IS ONLY PERMISSIBLE WHEN AN APPLICANT'S SENIORITY DOES NOT PERMIT THEM TO REMAIN EMPLOYED AT THE INITIAL SUPPLY POINT. 7. REPORT TO THE NEW LOCATION WITHIN 10 DAYS OF NOTIFICATION. 8. IF A VOLUNTARY SEPARATION PROGRAM IS OFFERED IN YOUR NEW SENIORITY DISTRICT AT SOME FUTURE DATE AND YOU REQUEST SEPARATION (AND SUCH REQUEST IS ACCEPTED BY THE COMPANY), THE COMPANY MAY DEDUCT ALL TRANSFER PAYMENTS RECEIVED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FROM SUCH FUTURE SEPARATION AGREEMENT. 9. BE PROVIDED MEAL ALLOWANCE (NOT TO EXCEED $12.00 PER DAY) AND COMPANY PROVIDED LODGING FOR THIRTY (30) DAYS. 10.BE ENTITLED TO CARRIER-PROVIDED LODGING FOR 30 DAYS. LODGING AT THE AWAY TERMINALS WILL BE PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE LABOR AGREEMENT. NOTE: IN THE EVENT AN EMPLOYEE RECEIVES THE BENEFITS UNDER THIS NOTICE AND DOES NOT REMAIN AT THE LOCATION TO WHICH HE TRANSFERRED BY HIS OWN ELECTION FOR A PERIOD OF TWO (2) YEARS, HE WILL BE REQUIRED TO REIMBURSE THE COMPANY FOR THE MONETARY TRANSFER ALLOWANCES PAID TO HIM.

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 05 September 2009 UPDATE on Labor Day PARTy at Water Street, Jacksonville, Florida Hello fellas. We have been getting great responses on the Labor Day Party. We executives will be serving food to the rank and file, so dont be afraid to load up those plates you beasts! Beverages will be provided including an open bar with yours truly Mike Ward serving drinks and offering words of wisdom. There will also be a $1000 raffle drawing every 10 minutes and a grand prize raffle will be given away at midnight as some lucky devil will get me for the night! CSX Management- We Care About Our Employees. Sincerely, - Lord Suckalot CSX Executive Handmaiden to God

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 04 September 2009 Thank you for that typographical correction Mr. HoMo, I can tell you are a team player. We like team players especially you big strong southern bulls. Mr. Ward has taken notice of your leadership abilities I can assure you he is impressed. Might be a promotion in it for you! Perhaps you will be attending the Labor Day Blue Collar Turkey party on Water Street? I certainly do hope so. What will you be wearing? Yes, I do have to have my facials - every day as a matter of fact. My work necessitates such pampering due to the delicate nature of my responsibilities. Daily facials keep me young and pretty which is a job requirement here in the suites. Thanks for your support HoMo. P.S. Do you twitter? Sincerely, I remain, Lord SuckaLot, CSX Handmaiden to God

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 September 2009 Hey Suckalot: The address is 500 Water St.(not Waters St.)Jacksonville, Fl 32202. Of course after 30+ years you know that and you're just E-testing every one...right? Isn't it about time for your facial?

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 04 September 2009 An open letter to CSX union people: Please come to CSX HQ on Waters street on LABOR DAY and receive a fresh plucked turkey - compliments of the Executive Glee Club. We will be having roasted mountain oyster entrees for you handsome southern blue collar devil boys. Bring a friend. Drink some beer. Have some fun. Yours in trust and family community, I remain Lord SuckaLot, CSX handmaiden to God. P.S. please dont pee on the grass.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 September 2009 It's September 3, 2009.....and CSX STILL SUCKS!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 September 2009 Hey HTL: 50+ year old woman with a wide body cooking eggs in her night gown while scratching various parts of her body with a spatula? Sounds to me like nothing has changed in the last 40 years;)

Name: htlong E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 September 2009 @Jason, when I hired out we slept in the towns peoples homes, 3 beds to a room,my engineer placed the beds legs inside his boots so no one could steal them, when called we would go to the kitchen and watch Maudie a 50+ year old woman with a wide body cook eggs in her night gown while scratching various places on her body with the spatula at 3AM. so when the younger employees would complain about where they had to stay due to the neighborhood....... I would think back to Maudie's house and then things weren't so bad

Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 August 2009 Thanks, Steve. The additional information you providded is good to know.

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 August 2009 Dear Sam- As a follow up, as I said I would, I emailed the two lawyers on exposure RT claims and both responded that they have each handled cancer and brain tumor type cases from long term exposure to diesel and other carcinogen cases and would definitely look at taking these type claims. I hope that, with the above, all your inquiries have been answered. Take care, Steve

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 August 2009 Thanks, Sam. I am still laughing. All true.

Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 August 2009 Company paid sleeping quarters for train crews is a joke. A buddy of mine on the Nazi Southern .....Jesus, you'd a thought they bought up the inner city slums. "Hotel" right on main emergency route - screaming ambulances every ten minutes, no room cleaning crews anywhere in sight and cots so filthy you'd thought they used em to butcher pigs. There is bad, and then there 'shithole'. These are worse than shitholes. Nightmares. Now the BNSF is another story. The rooms are not so bad, i hear, but they suck in other areas......they stick it to the entry level non-union employees with hobo wages and incredibly long hours - they must make about a nickel an hour on the average. BNSF management will carp like rats if they have to pay a dime over poverty level wages, and spend a million bucks explaining why it is necessary that they screw the new hires. BNSF has a sucking site, but not as up to date as the CSX SUCKS site. The Web Master over there could use some pointers. BNSF has a lot of skeletons in the closet too, and a lot of dead stinking bodies - their stories need to be heard. BNSF Management has its good ol boys club just like the rest of the roads.....sucking goes uphill, eating crap runs down hill. Neopotism is alive and well amongst the native management boneheads. SOS, different company. Like Tank says, there is sucking and then their is sucking - depends on the road, the area of sucking, and the degree of sucking that goes on. Sucking is so prevalent on the class one roads, there is now a DICTIONARY OF RAILROAD SUCK-ISMS. For example, SUCKLING: a newly hired manager or trainmaster. BUTT-SUCKER: trainmaster in training SUCK-A-BOT: trainmaster with 1+ years experience sucking up to higher management SUCK-ASS: lower level managment, (e.g. Asst. TM, Asst. Term MGr, Asst. Super, any number of Vice Presidents, basically anyone trying to "climb the corporate ladder") having huge red lips, brown nose, and yellowish tongue - constantly bows in the prone position and worships totally inept superiors. SUCKHEAD - executive who, due to years of sucking, has the head of a gigantic pussy cat, with lips that constantly make a grotesque sucking sound, as if trying to suck a golf ball through a garden hose. SUCK-A-ROO: manager or trainmaster who runs around like a chicken sucking everything in sight (shoes, hands, butts, crotches, door knobs, et al) out of fear of not sucking enough. DICH-SUCKER: CSX Management SUCK-IT-TO-DEATH: term used to describe number #1 job duty of hot nubile young secretaries in the Executive Suite. SUCK-O-METER: can be found at the exit security scanner, front door, CSX Jacksonville Headquarters, Waters Street - all managment employees must breath into the SUCK-O-METER at the end of every day in order to measure whether or not they performed to the required level of sucking. Those who do not meet the required Stink-a-lizer standard, must return to their stations for additonal ass kissing, butt licking, and dich sucking prior to being given release status. Those who fail the SUCK-O-METER test a second time are immediately terminated without notice. This of course is only a partial list of Suckisms - please feel free to add your own. Donate now.

Name: JASON E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 August 2009 I am posting this for the new bees who think they have it so tough on the road, When i first hired in the 70,s we had bunk houses to take rest at away from home terminals, Most were run by the YMCA ha ha what a joke that was, A lot of them were set up like army barracks ya know a bunch of guys sleeping in one big room with only a cloth curtain between the bunks, The body noises were discusting to say the least, And the wash rooms were also the same as a army boot camp barracks, 20 sinks in a row and 20 toliets in a row and a the shower room was the same, 1 big room with 20 shower heads so we could all see each other naked,, Yea talk about no personal privacy on the railroad, Well thats how it was ditto, And yes it sucked, I was the most happy person on the rr when they closed those discusting filty rat holes and thats what they were and some did not even have AC..... Yea man good ole railroading at its best???? I should have slept in a box car, At least i would have had some privacy.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 August 2009 Ok, good jokes laugh like hell. My granddaddy told me this one. City Slicker drove to the country to shoot ducks. He sits in a duck blind and shoots a duck....but the duck falls onto the Farmer's land next door. Farmer picks up the duck and says, "this here duck is mine, its on my property". City slicker: "no it aint. I shot it. its mine you hillbilly THIEF" Farmer: "possession is nine tenths of the law. I'm keepin the duck". City Slicker: "I will have my lawyer sue, you thief!" Farmer: "Ok, Ok. Wait a minute. Calm down now. Let's settle this like gentlemen. Tell you what, I'll kick you in the nuts, and then you kick me in the nuts. Whoever screams the LEAST, gets the duck." City Slicker lookes at his size 12 steel toed hunting boots, sizes up the skinny little stupid farmer, and agrees to the contest. Farmer winds up his leg like a spring loaded baseball bat, then lets loose and nails City Slicker in the nuts which cracked so loud it sounded like a sledge hammer hittin a sack of walnuts. City slicker lets out a blood curdling scream that can be heard all the way to Georgia, falls down squeelin like a pig with blood squirting from every pore in his body then passes out. 20 minutes later City Slicker wakes up and stumbles to his feet and says: " ok you stupid Farmer, now its MY turn". Farmer spits out a chaw of tobacco then reaches down and picks up the duck and hands it to the City Slicker and says, "here, you can keep the duck".

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 August 2009 Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 August 2009 Steve, What would you classify as a "seriously injured" railroad employee? (are you including diseases, psyche, toxic chemical exposure?) Can you give specific examples of particular injuries or cases you have in mind? How does the "loan to seriously injured employees" program work? (what happens if the firm looses at trial?) Has your firm had trial experience? Thanks. Sam ---------------------------- Dear Sam- Thank you for your questions. I will address each of your questions individually. Question:What would you classify as a "seriously injured" railroad employee?(are you including diseases, psyche, toxic chemical exposure?)Can you give specific examples of particular injuries or cases you havein mind? Answer: Quite frankly all the discussions with the two lawyers as to the types of injuries have all been involved around orthopedic injuries in nature and have not involved exposure type situations. After I post this, I will ask them. However, the types of injuries that have been discussed, and that I know they have an expertise in, range from disk herniations to the cervical and/or lumbar spine caused from whole body vibration (WBV); knee & ankle wear and tear from uneven ballast or ballast that should be smaller in size rather than larger; shoulder repetitive trauma seen, for example, in switchmen; and carpal & ulnar (elbow) tunnel syndrome. By the term "seriously injured", it is meant that the person cannot return back to his craft. Question: How does the "loan to seriously injured employees" program work? (what happens if the firm looses at trial?. Answer: In some states, it is permissible for an attorney to actually advance monies to clients while the client's case is pending to pay "necessaries". Necessaries can mean food, shelter, and other staples. In these cases, the lawyers sit down with the client and review the client's bills and there previous income. The advances, in the case of Gordon & Elias, L.L.P. are mad interest free and without recourse. That is, if the client does not receive money from the claim, they have no obligation to pay it back. It is, in essence, considered like all the other expenses put out in the prosecution of the client's case. There is no obligation for a lawyer to do this and the hiring of a lawyer should not be based upon this. It is simply, we believe an added benefit of being a Gordon & Elias client. If the firm loses at trial, there is no obligation to pay it back. It is, in the trues sense: "No recovery....then no fees or expenses are paid". Question: Has your firm had trial experience? Answer: Gordon & Elias has never tried a cumulative case as we have NEVER taken one and, absent these two lawyers, would not begin now. Each of these two lawyers have tried cumulative/repetitive trauma claims in many states and, perhaps more importantly, have successfully handled and settled MANY cumulative cases. For me personally, I have only had to try one FELA case to verdict. As with all personal injury cases, the key to "winning" is working as hard as one can in the "discovery" phase of the case to make the railroad (or whoever the defendant is) believe that, if they go to trial, they will lose and they will lose significantly. IF there is not a reasonable settlement offer, then you should go to trial and make sure to show up sober (Joke!). But, if you work up the case properly, the case should settle. Remember this- "There's never a horse that's never been rode and there's never been a man that's never been throwed". Translation= A reasonable settlement offer should be accepted because you never know what a jury will do for sure. Lawyers that say they have never lost a case at trial, simply (1) have not tried a lot of cases or (2) are lying. I have lost cases I should have won and won cases I should have lost and all in between. The issue with cumulative/trauma claims are that the railroads must take the posture they are BS. Because, if they do not, they are afraid the floodgates of litigation will overcome them. No question the railroads have had "personal" knowledge that, for instance, the engine vibration and the seats cause vibration spinal injuries. The lawyers we have teamed up with have all they relevant documents to prove this and they do not have to "re-invent" the wheel as they were some of the few lawyers that invented the wheel to begin with (at least as to repetitive claims. I hope this email answers your questions. Steve

Name: Binheer2long E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 August 2009 And the burnette answered, "Dunno, I lost count after a Sicilian."

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 August 2009 A two women a brunette and blonde were talking, The brunette told the blonde she had sex with a Brazilian, the blonde shouted "You SLUT" "by the way how many is a brazilian?"

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 August 2009 Anybody know any good jokes?

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 August 2009 Dear All- I am proud to announce to you that the our firm has partnered with two totally separate law firms for the sole purpose of handling what is called repetitive or cumulative trauma [RT FELA Claims] FELA claims. Historically, the firm of Gordon & Elias, L.L.P., has only allowed itself to be hired for "one time" FELA traumatic events. This is true for two reasons: (1) First, we have always thought that, if we cannot do the best job possible for the injured worker, then we did not want to allow ourselves to be hired by them. I can tell you the RT FELA claims, even though they are asserted under FELA, are, in fact, very difficult to develop and it is required, in our opinion, to have a level of expertise that we did not have. Some lawyers simply take everything that walks in the door but in the end that does not, we feel anyway, benefit the client; and (2) the client gets what we feel is very important and that is what we call the Gordon & Elias, L.L.P. experience. Specifically, they get the cell phones of the lawyers that are handling their claim and, where ethically permitted to do so, Gordon & Elias advances them money on their case interest free. This is a very large commitment but, we feel, is a necessary commitment so the worker can pay their bills during the pendency of the claim. We have always thought that the most seriously injured claimants want to make a claim but, because of their economic responsibilities, cannot afford to do it. The two lawyers are in separate areas of the United States and that means their experience is each limited to specific railroads. The CSX "expert" is David Lockard and we are exceedingly proud that he has chosen us to work with. We will work with him in all cases where G&E is hired and that will provide, in essence, two law firms on the client's case for the same attorneys' fee as one firm. This, we feel is also a benefit to the client for many obvious reasons. There you have it and if someone has any further questions, please feel free to call me directly at 1-800-773-6770. I hope no one ever needs our services but, if you do, we would respectfully ask that you at least give us a chance to explain why we feel we would be your best choice. Sincerely, Steve Gordon

Name: Jim E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 August 2009 You guys are losers. CSX isn't a bad railroad. Every single company in the world (including every single railroad) has its mistakes, flaws, errors, accidents, etc. Why make fun of CSX? They're not bad. If you want to talk about a bad railroad, talk about Canadian National(CN). They have derailments almost weekly and have abandoned 3000 miles of track since 1992. They are also the cause of at least one VIA Rail accident which claimed 2 lives. CN is the one that sucks, not CSX.

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 August 2009 rrj i really dont think i am a racist brother i just know that the job market that i applied in well that town has a collective african amrican count of 3 in the entire population so yes that is why i said the things i did no i got the job and was never called kinda felt like i was all dressed up and no where to go you know so no im not racist until it comes to a large corp. trying to get there affermitave action quetes off of my small town all you guys reading black and white know its an insult to us all if a person gets a job because of their race black people dont want to pull the race card just niggers black people have skills and are just as ashamed as thier nigger counterparts as we white people are of our trailer trash white people all im say is if there was two white guys in bibs interviewing 400+ black men and 2 white men for 2 jobs who do you think they would pick if you were a black man tryin to get a job in a white town that is how i felt they i got the congratulations letter lol well give you a job BULLSHIT so yes csx does suck from tennessee all the fuckin way to lakeland florida

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 August 2009 First off I never post on every section on this website. I'll make an exception in this case. Average Joe You say you're not racist. You used the "N" word right from the start. You got hired then got furloughed. Join the club. Just about everyone who got hired the past year some have been working longer longer have been furloughed. It's the economy if you couldn't figure that one out seeing you state you have a college degree. No, instead you decided to rant and rave about if more blacks were at that hiring session you wouldn't of got the job. I'm going to repeat something no one wants to read. When a lot of us hired on the railroad we were furloughed at times. Some of us got furloughed on a regular basis because of seasonal business. Some were furloughed for years. It's not a new concept that the railroads have devised like outsourcing and downsizing. It's a matter of waiting your turn to get enough seniority till you can hold a regular job. Nothing hidden in it, it's plain and simple. I guess it's a type of weeding out those who'll stay and be dedicated and those who'll move on. All you did was join the pity party club. Those who feel how unfair it is. Those who wish all those oldheads would retire. Staying on the railroad is up to the individual either they can handle it or not it doesn't make a difference to the railroad. Those that are furloughed the statistics are only 10% will return. Maybe you belong to that club.

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 August 2009 well we all sit back and take it in the ass i got a job with csx back in october and still no fuckin job yeah two niggers interviewed me thank god there were any other brothers there other than them or i wouldnt have even got the fuckin imaginary job offer in the first place so here is what i say fuck affirmative action and fuck csx and all other companies and colleges who discriminate agianst white men and women dont act like you dont know you have all seen it i know i come off as racist but i am really not all im sayin is that if i was a black guy getting the job where i was supp0sed to go to work i would have my fucking imaginary goddamn house paid for by now i guess its my college that fuckin holds me back or the fact that my daddy didnt work for the railroad i dont know so there fuck it most of you all are well you knew someone so you got your job and fuck everybody else

Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 July 2009 The whole bailout plan is a crass, thinly veiled attempt by CSX to snitch public funds to the tune of mega millions, and rid themselves of the liability of running an unsafe railroad. Fraternity boys dont know how to make an honest dollar, so they just spend their time conjugating syphlitic plans to steal from everyone else. It's easier than working. An Masta is de gran pappy of all dem basta chillin, sucklin de public titty.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 Here's CSX's bailout plan...didn't work last year, so try, try again! Fla. has new plan to buy CSX line TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the latest twist to the controversial plan to bring commuter rail to the Orlando area, state officials are seeking $432 million from the federal government to buy 61.5 miles of rail line from CSX Transportation, The Ledger reported. But the request is part of $8 billion being provided by the federal government for high-speed rail that connects cities with few stops. The SunRail proposal is not a high-speed rail line and would have many stops between DeLand in Volusia County and Poinciana in Osceola County, near the Polk County line. The Florida Department of Transportation has also filed a separate pre-application for $2.5 billion in federal funding for a 95-mile high-speed rail line connecting Tampa and Orlando with a stop in Lakeland. The application said the expected cost is $3.5 billion. The department is also requesting $30 million to begin work on a high-speed passenger line between Orlando and Miami that would ultimately cost at least $8 billion. Final word on the federal government's decision will come later this year with more detailed applications coming from the state this fall. For the past two years, lawmakers have refused to sign off on the SunRail deal, objecting to a CSX demand that the company be held legally immune for damages involving accidents with passenger trains or motorists, even if CSX negligence was responsible. Under the deal, CSX would continue to operate freight trains on the line. State Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, has led the opposition to the CSX deal. She said Tuesday evening that she could not comment immediately because she had not had a chance to read the department's application. The "High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail" program is an $8 billion stimulus plan. There is little mention of using that money for commuter rail lines like SunRail. DOT Assistant Secretary Kevin Thibault said Tuesday the SunRail project would fit into the federal government's scope, in part by connecting the proposed SunRail project with the high-speed rail line in Orlando. "The president's focus has been on both high-speed rail and inner-city passenger rail," Thibault said. He said the final criteria for who will receive portions of the $8 billion stimulus plan have not been determined. Should the state receive federal funding to buy the line from CSX, that would relieve state and local governments of the $432 million obligation. Various states and communities nationwide are competing for $8 billion from the federal government for high-speed rail projects. With much of the planning already completed for the SunRail plan and the Tampa-to-Orlando high-speed route, Florida may be in a better position than other states. Thibault said that even with the dispute over CSX's legal liability still unresolved, that should not affect the request for federal funding. (The preceding article by Joe Follick was published July 14, 2009, by The Ledger.) July 15, 2009

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 July 2009 Boy, your daddy must of pulled out early and squirted part of you down your mamma's leg. You're definitely missing a lot. Keep posting us old farts need a good laugh.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2009 Actually I believe the arb. was issued in 63 allowing a percentage of firemen to be cut loose. I think it was 15 or 20 percent.XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Folk's parted way in the spring of 1964. I have my termination letter and the severence amount shown. The award was most likely in 1963. I went back to work on July 20 1964 as a Trainman. I made no trips with a Fireman or Apprentice Engineer from that date until I left the RR in 1970. We had none. Many RR continued to hire, I have a friend that was hired on the frisco in 1975 as a fireman. The L&N just did not do that. The state of indiana was a different duck, a Fireman on every locomotive that moved, State Law. Later repealled of course.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 July 2009 ...1964 and no fireman? What were you? A scab on FEC? I am very familiar with the FEC, the Southern and the fireman issue arb 282. It was the L&N. States of Ky and Tennessee, ran every train with no Fireman. Yard jobs with No Fireman. Nashville Terminal ran all shift's with no Fireman. The L&N and the BLE established a training program. Qualified Apprentice Engineer's that could not hold the extra board for Engineer's were allowed to work the yard, as fireman job's were listed for them, by the company. I was a Fireman, this is not a story, just the way it was.

Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 July 2009 You haven't a clue. By the way, where did you get your GED.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 "Would it be fair if their parents were laid off or fired after working 25-30+ years for no reason except to replace them with a younger worker would it be fair and justified?". i think it is more than fair why should the old head get to work and the new guy gets fires that makes no sense and it is unfair because new hires has families too your not the only one. also new hires work faster and longer hours where old farts get tired and need a nap so do you snore in the bunkhouse during shift when you suppose to be working i see it all the time. anybody over 50 should quit and get out of the way befor they hurt themselves or others

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 July 2009 Upset This site originally was used as a forum to discuss employee concerns. Over the past year or so it's been more of a forum of newbie against oldhead. To much unnecessary bitching about unimportant issues. The newbies (1-3 years) still working should be thankful that they still have a job. Regarding oldheads if newbies ask themselves one question "Would it be fair if their parents were laid off or fired after working 25-30+ years for no reason except to replace them with a younger worker would it be fair and justified?". I see it all the time with non-union workers. A good friend of mine was just let go for a younger worker he worked for commission at a lumber company. Only reason it happened that new hire will work for less of a commission. We're lucky to be unionized it's based on seniority which is all we have.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 July 2009 Hey UPSET, get in line there buddy. You think most guys who work for the railroad arent thankful that they have a decent paying job? You need to get a grip man. People who post on this site aren't posting because they are content with the fact they have a decent paying job. They are usually writing about the crap they have to put up with in order to have this so called decent paying job. Yes, you can give this job up, but couldnt you at least try and advocate change to make things better? Damn I love having time off to try and make you people see the light.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 July 2009 Ok, here is my story. You guys let me know what you think. I am a conductor new hire trainee. I went to the REDI Center, passed with no problem. The started my on the job training at my designated site. I was into week 4 out of 12 when I was told that all training was to be temporarily suspended. ( Unknown how long) I/We was told that I would receive info in the mail about health insurance, other info regarding status. Nothing ever came! I was told I would have insurance for three months after training was suspended. I never, in those three months received anything in the mail and called numerous times to check my status and was tld that I was still active and had health insurance. Curiosity got the best of me at about threee and a half months. So I called and checked again.... insurance cancelled!!! Still no info regarding termination of insurance/lay off. Nothing! So I called corporate and spoke with someone who told me " Sorry, that was a mistake on our end. I am turning your insurance back on for 4 months." I wanted proof, so I asked for new cards to be sent. They came within a week. About a month later, I had to take my kid to after hours care, only to find out that my insurance was cancelled. I called first thing the next day and spoke with the same person. They said " Sorry, that was a computer error, your insurance ended two months ago!" I was floored, telling them what they had previously old me and they said there was nothing they could do. Also, I have yet to receive COBRA info either. They asked me about it and I told them I had not received anything. At this point I was working at a new job which provided insurance that was no longer eligible for insurance because I missed the open enrollment period because I thought I still had insurance. Now because Cobra info was extemely delayed and finalization of insurance matters was delayed and not communicated, the only way I can get insurance is to pay 4 months of premiums with cobra(1600.00) or with my current employer about 2000.00. All of this was because of lack of communication from benefits dept. Can someone please help?

Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2009 Actually I believe the arb. was issued in 63 allowing a percentage of firemen to be cut loose. I think it was 15 or 20 percent.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 July 2009 ...1964 and no fireman? What were you? A scab on FEC?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 July 2009 Diesel Locomotive Fireman. I just can not believe, any RR hired a Fireman after 1965. I do know there were full crew law's in many states, that required a Fireman on every locomotive that moved. I see Engineers on this site that started as Fireman in the 1970's. What a career that was, and contuinues to be, you talk about lucky, walking into the right door, these folks had it tough driving to and from WORK, and watching a lot of it, from a heated perch. I spent from june of 1964 working as a Brakeman with no Fireman until I left the RR in 1970. Really never missed the Fireman, Guess the Engineer did, however he was happy with the extra pay, and I loved the better seat on the left side, or best yet 2 seats, one to sit in and one to prop my little feet in.

Name: David E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 July 2009 Anyone heard anything about CN buying the Nashville division by September or October? Lets pray shall we.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 July 2009 CSX is a joke! I would be ashamed to be an trainmaster! You have no ethics or morals! How do you look at yourself in the mirror? How do you sleep at night? Remember this what comes around goes around!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2009 Lot of good conversation on the human killer 24/7. This topic should be top of mind for all RR'S No easy fixes, million reasons why it will not work. Think outside the box, how can you make it work? I do not know,I ain't even close to that smart. However someone is! Might be time to find them.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2009 All 2338 articles on one big page. Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 July 2009 Goob We can't keep lowering my ratings. It took a long time to get to this point. I liked those hard ass oldtimers when I was young even though at times they were difficult. I even missed them when they retired. They taught me a lot about railroading. With some people the kinder gentler routine doesn't work not in todays railroad when these new conductors don't have anyone watching their backs. At least in my day we had full crews working your way up the ladder from head brakeman to flagman on the caboose to conductor or roundhouse hostler to road fireman to engineer. There always was someone looking out for you. I must admit the older I get the more tolerant I become. It's the old adage "My bark is worse than my bite". Lot of truth to that statement.XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX look's like a 3 is kinda solid, I understood the hardass oldtimers, just worked around them, and by that I mean they thought that I really liked them, when is reality I really RESPECTED THEM. When the Conductor called and wanted me to set out the head end to car number xxxxx on hi 5 north over the wy and shove to the plant and set 3. I was LOST!!! Engineer was the only one that knew, so I really needed him. That is where the RESPECT comes from.(Experience) Engineers have always done that, however the real ass holes would just grin at you. Ass holes stopped (BELLS) and started their own consist(very few) the rest I started on the run with no problem. I ran for switches for most and walked like a dead dog for a few. As a former Fireman I was familiar with swapping end's. Good Engineer's came to the rear end sat down and released the brake, and off we went. A few had to find the reverser, oh well you know the drill. You will adjust to retirement in about two good night's sleep. however you will never adjust to the phone when it ring's you will have that awful feeling and never want to answer a phone for the rest of your life. I still do not like answering anything except my cell, simply because I know when my cell rings it is a friend, and most likely they want to ride or drink beer.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 July 2009 Goob We can't keep lowering my ratings. It took a long time to get to this point. I liked those hard ass oldtimers when I was young even though at times they were difficult. I even missed them when they retired. They taught me a lot about railroading. With some people the kinder gentler routine doesn't work not in todays railroad when these new conductors don't have anyone watching their backs. At least in my day we had full crews working your way up the ladder from head brakeman to flagman on the caboose to conductor or roundhouse hostler to road fireman to engineer. There always was someone looking out for you. I must admit the older I get the more tolerant I become. It's the old adage "My bark is worse than my bite". Lot of truth to that statement.

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 July 2009 okay guys i see alot of bitching about the unions but where i live unions are shit there were two factorys here one union the other not. both manufactured the same product while the union employees did it for an average of two dollars less on the hour and had shittier benifits That is the awesome part about a union in a right to work state unions dont mean a hill of beans here just something to blow your money on. im an electrician by trade and went to a tech school for two years to get an associate of applied science in electrical technology got my license and all was well went to talk to the union and found out it was shit they start you out at shitty pay and pretty much wont let you test up to journeyman without 3 years working in the union paying dues sounds like a fucking scam to me so i never joined for that fact and the other bieng that if you join the union and there next job is on the other side of the country and you dont want to leave your wife and newborn for two years your blackballed and wont work for the union again So in conclusion in a right to work state unions are nothing but a waste of money and time average joe

Name: scar E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 July 2009 When the HOS kicks in on July 16th, then CSX will call back all furloughed T&E employees, the lamb shall lie with the lion, butterflies and unicorns will dance and sing in mike ward's backyard, And Barrack Obama will save the economy by borrowing more money to throw at the problem only to miss the target again, and again. Just glad to be living in interesting times. Remember these days...Cuz it ain't ever gonna get better!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 July 2009 RRJ You came clean!!! you had a hard time with the sorry part and got that a little turned around, however you are thinking. You have now lowered your hard ass rating to a 3. If you keep this up some new Conductor will actually look forward to working with you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 July 2009 so have they started calling people back anywhere else?

Name: mike D E-mail: md777@sbcglobal.net Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 July 2009 can you sue a local chairman and where do you start

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 July 2009 Goofy I need to proof read better before hitting enter. I noticed the mistake "smake" instead of "smack" after it was posted. I was hoping your meds kicked in or your glasses were dirty.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 July 2009 Regardless of how hard you try..you can't fix stupid!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 July 2009 Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 July 2009 Wow!!!!Goofy you rated me a four. I could imagine me on a golf course your head on a golf tee I raise my golf club yell out "fore" and smake your tiny little cranium down the fairway. I love happy endings. Don't you?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Hey Big man, you are the KING everytime your turn comes up. You call the shot's with all of the new folks. Quiet when you get one that you can not push around. Keep on golfing and (smake) them. You stand as a 4, and a well seasoned 4. I do love happy endings. When is your last DAY?

Name: pat york E-mail: patyork@csx.com Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 July 2009 TO Whom IT MAY CONCERn o trainmaster PAT YORK is a snake he caused lots of strife on the dothan sub just like any trainmaster....backstabber please dont go to work at this company

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 July 2009 Wow!!!!Goofy you rated me a four. I could imagine me on a golf course your head on a golf tee I raise my golf club yell out "fore" and smake your tiny little cranium down the fairway. I love happy endings. Don't you?

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 June 2009 Hello All- I am seeking any information from anyone that knows: (1) about the relationship or contract [if any] between CSX and Goodyear Tire Co. to service/replace and/or repair its Goodyear tires that are utilized, for instance, on backhoes including, but not limited to, (a)is it a national agreement, i.e., are Goodyear tires used in all the CSX operating states?; (b) who at CSX would be the person that would negotiate for CSX with Goodyear on tire purchase and (c)service "after the sale", if any, topics; (2) Is there any studies that CSX did/does and/or that they rely upon for working in the heat and protection of its MofW workers; (3) What is the CSX policy (if there is one) on working conditions (regarding heat exposure) it will allow its MofW workers to be exposed to? If anyone has this knowledge, I would prefer to use my email to receive this information at sgordon@gordon-elias.com instead of a response to this post and I would be extremely grateful to anyone that can shed some light on these issues. You obviously do not need to give your name to me. Thank you all for what you do. Steve Gordon http://www.Gordon-Elias.com

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 June 2009 Instead of getting your claims paid or improving working conditions,the UTU is making you pay, or opt-out, for Disability Insurance, $1500/month for less than $30 a month. $1500.00 a month is about 1/3 of of a 100% yardman earns and isn't going to pay for much. I wonder what the premium on an addition $1500/month is? I'm am also curious if disability from job related stress is covered? Mutual of Omaha, I say AFLAAAAAAAAAC!!! Group disability now available to members UTU delegates have voted overwhelmingly to amend the UTU Constitution to permit voluntary member participation -- through an opt-out provision -- in group disability insurance coverage, and any other membership benefit opportunities that might arise. The delegates voted 356-58 in favor of amending Article XII of the UTU Constitution, which now will read: "The Board of Trustees shall also be empowered to make agreements with vendors to provide members with disability insurance coverage or other benefits through the International, at the members’ cost, on an opt-out basis." Of 524 delegates mailed ballots, 414 were returned, with 86 percent of those voting favoring the change to the UTU Constitution. "Group disability insurance will be an essential financial backstop for UTU members, many of whom have been denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions resulting from their railroad employment," said UTU International President Mike Futhey. The UTU International Board of Directors put the amendment change to a vote of delegates, noting that a review of such available policies had earlier determined that a group disability policy available from Mutual of Omaha could best serve UTU members. Mutual of Omaha is an A+ rated insurance carrier with more than $4 billion in assets. The search was made under the leadership of UTU General Chairperson Paul Emert (GO 898), who, with assistance from his Assistant General Chairperson Mark Cook and UTU General Secretary & Treasurer Kim Thompson, contacted numerous top-rated insurance companies seeking bids. Under this Mutual of Omaha policy, every UTU member will be eligible for guaranteed coverage during the open enrollment period, regardless of existing health conditions. The policy will be made available within 90 days, Thompson said. As further details become available, they will be announced at www.utu.org. Especially attractive is that the coverage will allow members with a UTUIA disability plan to keep that plan in addition to the Mutual of Omaha plan without any reduction in plan benefits. Benefits will be for up to $1,500 monthly for up to 12 months per disability. The coverage will be for accidents or sickness, 24/7, on or off the job and will be tax free. This is important to those seeking greater coverage than will be offered by the Mutual of Omaha plan. UTUIA field supervisors supported the Mutual of Omaha plan and are pledged to assist members with questions during the open enrollment period. Because of the large UTU membership base and the UTU's collective buying power, premiums will be especially low -- less than $30 per month, through payroll deduction. A similar policy -- even if it could be purchased individually from an insurance company -- would cost UTU members up to $100 monthly. Emert, writing in a column in UTU News in February, said: "UTU officers have an obligation to do whatever is necessary to provide for and protect the needs of the membership. This includes ensuring our members have income to protect their families and property during times of sickness and injury. This policy from Mutual of Omaha will do just that." Thompson said that "still other benefits to members, as they are identified, now can be offered down the road as a result of this change to Article 12." June 29, 2009

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 June 2009 Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 June 2009 OK!!! Sorry if you think I tried to hurt someones little feelings. I just reread my post I think I gave good information. Damn right I'm a hard ass anyone who survives the railroad this long ends up this way. Seeing you didn't post your craft it suggests you don't work for the railroad. That makes it none of your business.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX No man not at all, you are trying to help a 10 year employee, that is not competant, or a poster. He wan't help for a regular time slip/ ticket.??? You are a little crusty, hard ass want to be. I would classify you on a scale of 1-10 as a 4.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 June 2009 Log on to the CSX Gateway at the top of page click the Help Center then click Payroll Contacts click Contact Payroll Dept. A form show's up that should already have you name and ID#. Hit the scroll list for pay shortages then explain. Once you complete it a case number will be generated.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 June 2009 It's straight pay they are denying. If there's a way to get it fixed online I'm there. Tell me how because trying to talk to those boneheads in payroll is like talking to a cinderblock.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 June 2009 OK!!! Sorry if you think I tried to hurt someones little feelings. I just reread my post I think I gave good information. Damn right I'm a hard ass anyone who survives the railroad this long ends up this way. Seeing you didn't post your craft it suggests you don't work for the railroad. That makes it none of your business.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 June 2009 Anyone that has been working for 10 years know's how it works. Old RRJ is once again jumping on a poser, as he always does. Old head's are Hard Heads. Perfect Match

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 June 2009 Are you asking about actually work time tickets not getting paid or claims? It's two different situations. I've used the CSX Gateway to resolve pay shortages it's quite simple and in my few experiences it did get resolved quicker online than trying to talk to payroll. Another issue I find is a lot of engineers rely on the conductor to put off the ticket without monitoring the input. A lot of shortages end up this way. A little more information would help.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 June 2009 I'm about to snap. This is one solid month of CSX denying my pay. What's to deny? I went to work, did my job, and went to work to get home. Simple. Yet they deny my pay. How the hell do they get away with this? Who do I contact to get these bastards to pay me for the job I do? I don't know any other person in any other occupation that constantly gets their paycheck denied. I'm getting desperate.

Name: Link E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 June 2009 If someone can find his address I will e-mail him about the outrage we feel. It's a shame.

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 June 2009 NoMo, I believe the guy with the crushed hand and missing fingers has settled now, but I am not sure. I've been working the yard for a few months now, so I haven't been upto Bergen for awhile. I was off on the 19th, but the men were well aware of the Black tee shirt day. Everyone should send a personal letter, written in there own words to Szasbo, the new head of the FRA. What happened to that man is just plain murder in my eyes.

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 June 2009 Closed shop, so you have to pay in order to be employed. I pay to the BLET for awhile now.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 June 2009 I have been preaching this for years to def ears. If you can not see, and continue to pay,Your broke kid's will still love YOU. Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 June 2009 The local UTU here in Philly just let me know last week that my claims I have filed with them were never filed further up the chain, hence they have expired. Now I doubt my appeal from my last investigation ever made it. Why am I not surprised?

Name: JET E-mail: Jetcherokee@yahoo.com Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 22 June 2009 To whom this may concern:I worked for the railroad over forty(40 yrs.) I worked as crew caller, fireman and enginer some times in engine service, I tranfered to brakeman a few yrs. later and worked as yard conductor, road brakeman,I started for the B&O Railroad in 1953 and I also worked for the Tennessee Railroad back in 1944 as crew caller,o.k.last but lease, The CSXhad the railroad when I Retired in Aug. 1993, let me tell you this, when the CSX had taken over, yes it was a new ball game, The CSX wasn"t a railroad co., they was more for Export and import, well I"ll shut up now, may have said to much, all tho I don"t think so. Thank you. Sincerely:Jet.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 June 2009 Hey Freddie: This site gets stupid all the time. That's no excuse for staying away. We need your eyes and ears in the Pilly/Baltimore area more than ever if we are create change. Tell Troll he's welcomed too...the more the merrier...this site sucks because all the new hires have a beef and rightfully so. Keep up the good work...don't let CSX get away with it! You know CSX hates this site...what better way to get even than to tell it like it is. Let us know how your appeal goes, although I know what the outcome will be...if I remember correctly, you're a member of the BLEt, not much difference between the two. By the way, how's the fellow that lost his hand doing, if you know? How did "Black Friday" go up there? I asked the question early Saturday and nobody answered...leads me to believe that nobody participated...what do you know?

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 June 2009 Good to see ya NoMo, I was giving this site a break, it was getting really stupid for awhile. Normal is just a setting on a dryer. Philly is the same if not a bit worse. Furloughed guys are being called back, but some of them have found more reliable jobs, so I don't know if they will be back.

Name: benn there E-mail: 124564 Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 June 2009 You have the right to sue under the fair duty representation laws. Your union is obligated to handle your grievances to the best of their "ability". If you have record of giving the claims to your LC he or she is obligated to handle. I wish you luck. Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 June 2009 The local UTU here in Philly just let me know last week that my claims I have filed with them were never filed further up the chain, hence they have expired. Now I doubt my appeal from my last investigation ever made it. Why am I not surprised?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 June 2009 Hey Freddie: Where you been? Hadn't heard from you in a while...things in Philly must been back to normal, what ever that is!

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 June 2009 The local UTU here in Philly just let me know last week that my claims I have filed with them were never filed further up the chain, hence they have expired. Now I doubt my appeal from my last investigation ever made it. Why am I not surprised?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 June 2009 This may also help Mr.Smith http://www.trainlawblog.com/2009/02/federal-railroad-safety-act-1/frsas-sharp-teeth-starting-to-bite-railroads/ http://www.osha.gov/dep/oia/whistleblower/acts/frsa.html http://railroadworkersunited.org/sites/rwu.prometheuslabor.com/files/CSX%20Harrassment%20FRA%20Report.pdf

Name: csmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 June 2009 does anyone have a phone number of an FRA AGENT in Georiga, I had an injury requiring surgery, and was told at my investigation during a break, that if I only reported one injury, the plant manager would have a talk with me when I got back to work, making me think I would keep my job, but they fired me anyway. They only reported one injury and showed the second injury as non reportable

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 June 2009 How are things looking down there in Nashville Rail Rat? How many you got furloughed down there and has anyone told you when they think you will be back working?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 June 2009 I am so glad working in an environment now where someones hard work ethic is appreciated. I left this crap hole this past year. CSX can honestly go to hell. UTU and the BLE can follow them...:0) I honestly felt while I was there that I did a serious crime and I was assigned community service, but just got paid for it. But of course, I worked in the Baltimore Terminal. From what I here, I heard other trainmasters around the system (even the REDI Center) threatens employees who do something wrong that they will send them to Baltimore if they do something else wrong. LMAOOOO HAVE A SAFE CSX DAY!!!

Name: Rail Rat E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 June 2009 Well, I did get it extended again. However, there still is an issue with the union not upholding senority rights to get requalifed. Believe it or not, there are some good folks in JAX calling me trying to get this resolved from labor relations. Yes, you CAN talk with them and they will try and work with you. I would rather deal with them, then with the UTU chairmen.Read the UTU/NTU website. It will tell you everything you need to know about insurance extention. Document this, and don't take it for granted what some local chairman from the union tells you. ONE DAY = 4 months. Since we all would like to get re-called, we do this at a minimum. But I know some of us needs this insurance badly. Yes, we are all bitter for being furloughed. But objectively I have seen good trainmasters who will tell you your doing a good job in Huntington. And the bad ones... well.. I document everything. There are double standards when it comes to safety. You can get written up for not usung a 'dated" brake stick in the yard. But when tieing down a train on double mains, with old hopper coal cars, you must climb and dismount on the main side depending where the brakes are located. We told them we needed a brake stick for this pupose enroute, but they look the other way. PTI can't carry them, and the bulletin says we are supposed to use a de-rail. Go figure! But the crews were good at telling you when they were about to pass. As big as that division was, they would listen and call you by name. There are some good crews up there. Corporate culture would change for the better if there were no double standards with rule application. The good T/M's I have dealt with used to work the ground - they know it! Just common sense.

Name: Just out of training E-mail: BaddA$$MoFoMastah@csx.net Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 June 2009 Wow. all you guys got is bad spelling as a comback? Hay guys why don't you stop worring about my spelling and worry about those extra inches your womens been looking for all these years. Summer time is coming and its time to have those BBQs Why don't you invite me over and we will get to know each other. While Im there I'll give those extra inches to your womens she been missing all these years. When God made me he told me I had two choices. You can be a master at word smithing or you can have a big male member. I asked, "Well what will open up doors for success?" He said, well having good grammar and spelling will certainly get you thru the door. But if your grammar sucks and also your spelling, and they try to shut the door, you can block it open with your big dick. Oh buy the way, when I come over tell your wife to wear those tight short shorts :) Have a safe day

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 June 2009 Alright trainmaster if that is a real post and your such a bad ass whats your name.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 June 2009 MMM... Community College? He must not have been smart enough to get into a University. His next stop just might be Tulsa Welding School.....

Name: Just out of training E-mail: BaddA$$MoFoMastah@csx.net Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 June 2009 Im a new trainmaster fresh out of training. Im 26 years old and got this job at a job semminar at my Commuity College. If any of you give me any shit you will help me make a name for myself. They taught me well and I know exactly what to do. I have a very big spoon over my shoulder the size of a spike puller. If you people hide or ignore me I will start sturring this spoon till someone or ones rise to the top of the tird pool. I will test you. If you don't like it I will fire your ass! Oh ya, If I see anyone wearing BLACK or if you are Black on June 19th YOU ARE FIRED! Have a safe day :)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 June 2009 I tell you what. I am so glad I have left this place..:0) CSX is horrible. Their management needs to realize "The way you treat your people is the type of work ethic you will get in return"!!! Then the low life union (other wise known as the UTU) took close to $400.00 out of my vacation paycheck this week!!!! And what the hell have they done for me in the last 6 months besides tell me what they are trained to say (they can do that, they can do that, they can do that, they can do that,etc...over and over again)?? HELL, WHAT THE F DID THEY DO FOR ME MY WHOLE 4 year CAREER??? Both the BLET and UTU are in the companies left hand pocket!!! That place is the biggest joke. So I can not wait to see what they take out of my second vacation paycheck for 6/19/09-6/27/09 but I will definitely keep you up to date on just how much our (more like yours now) unions are low lives (UTU & BLE). I have said it before and I will say it again (like my mother said), That place is for prison inmates who just got out of prison and looking for a career!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For you old guys and mid-career guys (and gals), I understand, your putting in your time to get your pention. Most importantly, you started when this place was a GREAT place to work at. But you new guys?? What the hell are you thinking about?? Honestly?? This place is TTTHHHEEEEE biggest joke. And what more proof do you need when this site was sued by CSX and went to court and this site/owner WON??? HHHEEELLLOOOOOOO???????? When you work for a place that has a web site that goes in depth about how bad it is, then that web site gets sued by the company, AND THEN THE WEB SITE WINS??? What more proof do you need that you are working for/in a bad environment?? But I had a guy who worked in my terminal who was SHOT (YES, GUN, SHOT) twice and out of service. I thought you had to pass a background check to get into this job?? Criminal background check at that. Again, that place was a joke and I could go on and on and on...I just want to say, I made some great friendships at CSX among my so-called brothers and sisters (BLT & UTU, just not the the reps BECAUSE I WAS SMART). And I hope the best for all of you non-management people. For you management people, I work M-F, make just as much as you do, and you know where you can go. Oh, by the way, I do not get called at 2:00a.m. for a derailment caused by another idiotic, inner-city kid by my a manager (Superintendant in your case) and I do not get called period when I leave the office..LMAOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I am working M-F, do not get called by an ignorant caller who my 7 year old's IQ is higher than, etc. (Again, ON AND ON AND ON AND ON)...LMAO When it comes to CSX callers and management, lets face it, it doesn't take much!!!LMAOOOOOO By all means, I am not bragging (just to CSX LOW LIFE MANAGEMENT).. Good luck to you older guys. This is one (and an on-going) hell of a transition you must be going through from your earlier years. For you younger guys, get out while you can. Realize the schooling/$4800 was a waste and move on to another career. I am now working for the gov't and I am going to the aviation school of maintenance. I plan on being a mechanic in the aviation industry and having my engineering degree within two years (80 credits to go)....:0) Good luck and god bless..:0)

Name: E-mail: mikewardisgay@gmail.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 June 2009 RailRat: Where i am, we have been told it takes 7 days to extend insurance, one trip will not extend anything.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 June 2009 Rail rat you have them, Now try to collect. you will face more BS than you have ever seen. Keep up the good work and force it right back in their Arse. Good post This man has a mission. Bottom line payback will be he spend's years on making a correct point and they say Sorry! You get zero, but keep on paying those dues!

Name: Rail Rat E-mail: jsdow@netzero.net Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 June 2009 For you younger conductors who got furloughed. Here is advice from an "old head" who worked under the railway labor act for 20 plus years, but not with the railroad. You see, I am furloughed as well too. I worked in the airlines in both management and the union, and NEVER had a pay issue for this time period while operating under the "Railway Labor Act." We had a copy of the contract in our pocket and on-line, and we went by it. I took a early out retirement buyout with the airline and decided to work at the railroad. However, when I come to CSX, it has been nothing but trouble with both pay and senority issues. Botton line - your UTU union SUX, not just the railroad. They enforce trainmen's rights based on secret addendums,and public law board hearings that are not placed into the "agreements" that are posted on the Gateway. I don't believe in working off the furlough board every time the railroad calls you, because then they would have no reason to re-call anybody. However, if you do work one day, you get 5400 dollars worth of Cobra premiums that extends your insurance for four additional months. So you could work only three times a year to keep your insurance. Last year some of us who were furloughed then, took temporary transfers to other locations. It was like a gold rush. They could not get enough help, so of course they cut our qualifying time in half - in our new territory. Upon returning home, were get furloughed again, and now the company says we are not qualified to work at our home district. We were furloughed out of senority order, and I have "hard copies" of jobs I could have marked up on for three weeks. The company would not re-train us, yet they were still training Cubs who will never return because they are so far down the list. Of course that does not prevent them from calling in the middle of the night to work. One night, took them up on their offer since they woke me up again, I deadheaded to Chattanooga from Nashville, they then "discovered" that I was not qualified to work and then deadheaded me home. It took four weeks to fight the company to get paid the day's pay and extend the insurance. I finally got it. But guess what? The company still calls in the middle of the night even though they know I am not qualified to work. MY ADVICE is to document every call you make and to whom. Now us "transfers' who are senior cannot work off the furlough board to extend our insurance, but junior trainmen can. Below is an exchange with J. Willis the union chair in JAX. ATTN: J.L. Willis, I will cut and paste your comments and respond accordingly Brother Dow, I have spoke to Labor Relations regarding your qualification issue. At this point they are not agreeable to paying you to re-qualify due to your furlough status and you do not stand for work at Nashville. However they advised that they would not have a problem with you re-qualifying at your own expense. Response: They don’t have a problem qualifying me at my own expense, but they also do not have a problem calling me for emergency service in the middle of the night and waking me up. I may just take them up on the offer since they keep calling me - for the purpose of extending the insurance anyways. Willis: When you are recalled any necessary re-qualifying should be paid by the Carrier. In regards to junior employees working when you returned from temporary transfer no complaint was made to this office at that time. Nor was any complaint made to this office at that time about the Carrier refusing to re-qualify you. Response: Oh yes there was. I contacted Mr. Barry Hogan who long since has retired from the union and he advised me to file a “CE” claim with payroll. Taking the unions advice, I did just that. And the company told the RRB that because I filed a claim –even through they did not pay it, I was in effect “still an employee”. So not only did I not get paid by the company, I did not get paid by the Railroad Retirement Board for the first month I was unemployed thanks to the “advice” of the union. (This is well documented with labor relations and payroll. The union has yet to help me get these CE claims processed.(The RRB finally paid this period five months later through no help of the union.) Willis: It is my understanding that you voluntarily began qualifying on the PM district after your return from your transfer. Response: Yes, I did, and that is a separate issue, because at the time I could still hold some positions there. In fact, there was much dialogue between Nashville management, and yourself over this. They thought I should have gotten paid (which we eventually did – all three of us through direct interaction with labor relations and no help with the union to get paid. As you recall, the decision was based on Art. 17 in a Public Law Board Hearing that should have been an addendum to the contract – so of course nobody knew the policy, not even management. You sent me a copy of this which I have, remember? Willis: It is my position that you should have been re-qualified at Nashville upon your return from transfer however I was not made aware of your situation until your call and email sometime after the fact. Response: Well, you should have been. Again, Mr. Hogan retired and you inherited his position. He should have conferred with you any pending issues that have yet not been resolved with trainmen whom you represent. He knew this fact last January. Willis: Situations such as yours should be promptly reported to this office for immediate handling and not rely on local Carrier officers for an interpretation of the contract. I have no record of you attempting to contact this office concerning your requalification during the 3 weeks that junior employees were working at Nashville. J R Willis Gen. Chm. UTU Response: Again, the union was in fact notified. You must remember, I document EVERYTHING. This includes phone logs of numbers that I have contacted. I keep copies of my phone records for occasions such as this. The only reason why we did get paid for the Bruceton runs is because I kept text messages from the railroad management saying that both the union and trainmasters were contacted and that we would get paid. My phone records indicate that Mr. Hogan’s office was contacted around the time the “CE” claims” were filed- as well as the local chairs. This is just an example of the union not upholding seniority rights of its members. Rail Rat Of course now I am doing some legal research to see if the union is libal for a "lack" of representation. I will keep you all posted.

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 June 2009 Dear Safety Strike- I agree with EVERYTHING you said. ------------------- Dear APE- I took the liberty of posting your most important post here: http://www.yardlimits.com/forums/ask-attorney-steve-gordon-gordon-elias-law-firm/13276-railroad-workers-united-june-19th.html#post123340 Our firm will be joining you all. ------------------- Dear Just one more law firm searching for business???? I would ask that you not generalize please. Steve

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 June 2009 ame: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 June 2009 Goofy There's a difference between someones opinion and those that C&P. Whether I agree with a poster or not I respect their actual opinion. Those that critique others post line by line are boring. I guess with you it's the meds clouding up your thought process.================= ==================================================================== ==================================================================== Are you a real person, from planet earth? What is the difference between a person that C&P and their opinion. That make's no sense. I am very aware of respect and what that entails. I can assure my meds's are zero, thank you very much.

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 June 2009 Dear Been Here too Long- What did you say? Steve

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 June 2009 Dear All- Thank you for the honest responses. I will tell you that we work VERY hard and since there are only two lawyers in our "boutique" law firm you've always got a named partner on your case (LOL!). Seriously, I was hoping to get the responses I received. I think the concept of unions, on paper, are a necessary thing. Lord knows the company has your back alright...to stick a knife in it. So, Unions are a necessary evil...sort of like lawyers! I must say whatever tune we had to sing to get designated was the wrong one we chose. I swear I thought that (1) getting excellent results; (2) making sure the railroader was only treated by Board Certified physicians; (3) advancing money interest free [where ethically permitted to do so so the client could pay their bills]; (4) giving the client the lawyer's cell phone in case they NEED to talk to their lawyer; (5) never settling more than one case ata time instead of "group case settlements" and (6) busting the railroad's ass with a 'take-no-prisoner' mentality and approach would have been enough to get our name in the hat. BUT I WAS WRONG! So...here we are...not able to just call someone up when they are hurt but having to wait till they call us. Please do not get me wrong, we have good business. But I just needed to know that we had a fighting chance in the minds' of railroaders without the designation. Thanks again!

Name: Ed E-mail: edward.oliver@gmail.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 June 2009 Union Pacific is the same way. Make a profit above all else.

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 June 2009 Dear All- I have a question and since this is about as anonymous a place to post as one can get in the railroad industry, I thought I would ask here so here goes. As you probably are aware, our firm http//www.gordon-elias.com is not Union Designated. That is, we do FELA work but we were unable to do whatever the heck was necessary to get anointed by a Union Designation from the "higher-ups". You can see and hear my explanation at http://www.gordon-elias.com/CM/Custom/Unions.asp as to what happened. Here is my question: If you were hurt, would you consider hiring a "non-union designated" FELA law firm? If not, why not and if so, why so? The courtesy of a straight answer would be GREATLY appreciated and thank you. Steve Gordon

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 June 2009 Goofy There's a difference between someones opinion and those that C&P. Whether I agree with a poster or not I respect their actual opinion. Those that critique others post line by line are boring. I guess with you it's the meds clouding up your thought process.

Name: old rr guy E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 June 2009 Haa.I gotta say. I do not beleive that most of the posters on here actually work for the railroad. On second thought some of the whining does sound vaguely familiar. Example#1: "I can't believe they laid me off after only four months." C'Mon this guy can't be serious. I was laid off more than I worked the first three years I was employed by Conrail. Then, as now there was a huge recession on . No cars were being bought,steel mills were closing up thus no steel was being made, etc, etc.Thousands of cars and engines stored.Thousands laid off. Its a freight railroad. If the freight is down , theres no work. It is not a mystery or someome playing a game with your life. No one put a gun to your head to sign up. Get used to the lousy hours, and sporadic work, you will be living it with no seniority.Otherwise, hang it up and do something else.They are not going to treat you like anything other than an hourly employee. You will not like some of the people you work with. Sorry to rain on your parade. Its a business , not a jobs program.Feel bad for the guys in Buffalo where I started. I am surprised they didn't close down most of the Frontier operation a lot sooner, after the 99 split with NS

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 June 2009 You have to love this one, Big E does not approve of (Copy and Paste) So what the Fu-- does he do??????---Yep post on every single TOPIC MG son give us a break. Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 June 2009 I like it. Bog this website down with cut and pasting. Maybe the poster is tired of the BS of certian people who like C&P critizing every person's point of view. Keep up the good work.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Mostly Correcting you experiences to the real world. Remember you were a Fireman on diesel. Backup to get your check.

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 June 2009 Dear Sam, Z, Safety Strike and All Others That Are Interested- I apologize for not responding sooner. I posted the Press Release and just checked back just now [0018HRS---06/04/09]. Anyway, I would like to point out that it was not our firm that handled any part of this case. I think that the underlying firm did an admirable job to get a $5 million dollar JURY award. I have only had one in my professional career and I can tell you they are very hard to get no matter what the damages. So, in that sense, they are to be commended. I was not at the trial and I am only speaking from conjecture. However, having said that, I would like to point out some basic trial "truths" that go through a trial lawyer's wacked out brain. It is hard enough to get a verdict that is sizeable, you kind of want to do everything you can at the trial level to hold on to it when it is appealed. The general consensus on the modus operandi of the railroads are that, anytime you get a sizeable verdict, they will appeal. Hence, protecting your trial record is an all important process ever-present in the back of a trial lawyer's brain during the entire process including, but certainly not limited to, (1)juror selection, (2)medical causation issues [usually dealing with the famous Daubert case, and its progeny, at the federal level], (3)the sufficiency of evidence to support the individual elements of damages, (4)the sufficiency of liability evidence and, (5)as in the CSX v. Hensley case, the wording of the charge. Obviously, CSX prepared the "genuine and serious" instruction and the Plaintiff's counsel argued against it. Sometimes, just to protect your verdict, you will actually let the defendant's proposed instruction go to the jury. This is when you truly believe you've got the jury and there is almost no instruction that will persuade them not to go with you. This is only a call that the trial lawyer can make. The general rule is to try to submit a "plaintiff's favorable" charge and the defense submits their "defendant's favorable" charge and the Court makes up its mind after hearing argument of counsel [and maybe, if you're lucky, actually reading the law]. The CSX lawyers read Ayers as "requiring" the extra instruction, I could easily see how the Plaintiff's lawyer could have been worried that its inclusion could have been an obstacle for the jury to award big damages. It was a call he/she made and they won...at least till it got to the Supreme Court level. From reading the CSX v. Hensley case, Hensley had asbestosis from a long term exposure from working on the railroad. A reading of the Ayers opinion reveals: “Norfolk presented the question whether a plaintiff who has asbestosis but not cancer can recover damages for fear of cancer under the FELA with-out proof of physical manifestations of the claimed emotional distress. Our answer is yes, with an important reservation. We affirm only the qualification of an asbestosis sufferer to seek compensation for fear of cancer as an element of his asbestosis-related pain and suffering damages. It is incumbent upon such a complainant, however, to prove that his alleged fear is genuine and serious.” Norfolk v. Ayers, at 157, 123 S.Ct. 1210 After reading the above, if you had been Hensley's counsel, would you have vehemently argued for its exclusion? How about if you knew that, if it was excluded, that you would risk a reversal on appeal....would you still argue for its exclusion? .......Tough call isn't it? I can not fault the trial lawyer in this decision. I do have one issue that I would like to raise. There are many articles on the following point and they go either way. There is, I believe, a consensus of opinion of good trial lawyers that your 'bigger' awards are usually found with a general damage submission rather than specific damage questions. I will be more specific so you will understand. In some instances you can submit to the jury damage questions like this: "'What sum of money, if paid now in cash, do you award for medical expenses, loss of wages, loss of earning capacity, physical pain and suffering, mental anguish, physical impairment, physical disfigurement' Answer in Dollars & Cents $__________" OR, one could submit it this way: "'What sum of money, if paid now in cash, do you award for medical expenses $_________, loss of wages and/or loss of earning capacity $_____________, physical pain and suffering $__________, mental anguish $___________, physical impairment $__________, physical disfigurement $________' Answer in Dollars & Cents." The latter way permits the trial court, or the appellate court, to take away one element with out disturbing the remainder of the award. The Hensley case was a general/broad submission and, therefore, there was no way for the Supreme Court to determine what part of the $5 million was attributed to the "fear of cancer" award. Once, the Supreme Court determined the CSX proffered instruction should have been given, the ENTIRE case had to be reversed and remanded. This could have been different. Once again, the general belief among trial lawyers that are worth a damn is that bigger awards are found in the one damge line approach BUT......when CSX was denied an instruction that arguably should have been given, don't you think the trial lawyer might have "re-visited" the one line submission before it went to the jury? Well, I do not know if any of the above helps understand this case a little better. I think it was Sam that said something like "Whats the bottom line?" Here it is: A FELA claimant that seeks 'fear of cancer' monetary damages needs to put on evidence that his/her fear is 'genuine and serious' AND submit an 'instruction' worded as such. I do not believe you have to have psychological/psychiatric testimony but I know, if I had a client where this was an issue, I would damn sure make sure the client visited with a a psyche doctor so they could testify how genuine and serious the fear is. Ya'll take care out there and be safe. Steve http://www.gordon-elias.com ps-the Hensley opinion can be downloaded at: http://www.yardlimits.com/forums/legal-news-announcements/12920-csx-v-thursten-hensley-signiificant-u-s-sup-ct-court-fela-decision.html

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 June 2009 I like it. Bog this website down with cut and pasting. Maybe the poster is tired of the BS of certian people who like C&P critizing every person's point of view. Keep up the good work.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 June 2009 Get the point yet.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 June 2009 (Norfolk Southern issued the following on June 1, 2009.) NORFOLK, Va. — On the 10th anniversary of Norfolk Southern Corporation's acquisition of nearly 60 percent of Conrail, CEO Wick Moorman today thanked customers, suppliers, stockholders, communities, and employees for their hard work and support. "On Day One -- June 1, 1999 -- we set out to build the best freight transportation system in the world," Moorman said. "We have made steady progress toward that goal, and together we have enjoyed a decade of growth and financial success. All of us at Norfolk Southern are grateful to everyone who has played a part in this success, and we look forward to what the next decade brings." Since Day One, when Norfolk Southern added 7,200 miles of Conrail routes and 10,000 former Conrail employees to its system, the railroad has moved 3.5 trillion gross ton-miles of freight. A single train of every carload NS hauled in the last decade could stretch to the moon and back twice -- and then some. In order to meet increased demand and better serve customers, NS over that period has invested nearly $10 billion in capital expenditures to improve track, equipment, facilities, and technology. In new rail alone, NS installed the equivalent of a brand new transcontinental railroad. NS' industrial development activities since Day One resulted in the location or expansion of 1,115 industries along the railroad's lines, representing customer investments of $23.6 billion and creating nearly 55,000 customer jobs in the territory served by the railroad. The Conrail transaction returned competitive rail service to the Northeast for the first time in 20 years. NS sharpened its focus on customer service markedly following the transaction -- especially through its Thoroughbred Operating Plan -- and today is the industry's service benchmark. Most important, it all has been done safely. NS employees have earned the E.H. Harriman Memorial Gold Medal as the safest railroad workers in the U.S. for each of the last 20 years. "The numbers tell an impressive story, but as satisfying as it is to see how far we've come, it's more exciting to look ahead," Moorman said. "Our progress has given us the strength to weather the current economic storm. This recession will pass, and the long-term future for rail as the safe, clean, and fuel-efficient transportation alternative has never been brighter. NS is ready to take advantage of the opportunities that a recovering economy will bring. Ten years from now, along with our partners, we will look back again with amazement at how far we've come together." Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is a leading North American transportation provider. Its Norfolk Southern Railway subsidiary operates approximately 21,000 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every major container port in the eastern United States, and provides efficient connections to other rail carriers. Norfolk Southern operates the most extensive intermodal network in the East and is a major transporter of coal and industrial products. Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 June 2009 Railroad accidents have terrible consequences, safety advocates say (The following story by Nicole Printz appeared on the Abilene Recorder Chronicle website on June 2, 2009. T.A. LaCombe is a member of BLET Division 261 in Herington, Kan.) ABILENE, Texas — When people think of train collisions, they generally think of train crossings. Thomas LaCombe, Union Pacific train engineer and a presenter for Operation Lifesaver, is raising awareness about trespassing incidents. Operation Lifesaver had a car crushed in a train collision and displays at Flour Power Family Fun Fest this past weekend. LaCombe stressed the importance of railroad safety in Abilene. “There are two major railroad companies that run though Abilene,” he said. The multiple tracks through Abilene increase the risk for train collisions, either at crossings or trespassing incidents. “Railroads are private property,” he said. “Almost everyone crosses railways at some point. There were 2,000 people killed on the rail right of ways last year.” In Kansas last year nine people were injured and four people killed on railroad property, according to the Federal Railroad Association. LaCombe explained that many people do not think that fishing on a railroad bridge or walking on tracks is trespassing. The only legal place to cross a railroad track is at designated public crossings. Children are often fascinated with trains and will cross underneath stopped trains. LaCombe was starting a train and noticed movement in the rearview mirrors. There were three children playing underneath the cars. If he hadn’t noticed them, the children probably would have been severely injured or killed. “Don’t set things on the track. A railroad spike set on the track can derail a train,” LaCombe said. “If the train is carrying federal property and is derailed it becomes a federal incident.” Coins placed on the tracks can be flung with great speed when run over, potentially injuring someone. Drivers make poor decisions that lead to accidents as well. “The railroads have their own police,” he explained. “If I see someone go around the gates I am required to report that.” Going around crossing gates is illegal, and you can be ticketed even if the gates have been down for several days. If gates are down for no apparent reason, look on the crossbuck or near the crossing for the toll free number posted near every crossing. Trains can crush cars as easily as a car can crush a pop can. “If your car dies on the tracks, walk toward the direction the train is coming from.” LaCombe said. “If you walk the other way, the train could knock your car into you.” “There are no accidents with trains,” executive director Darlene Osterhaus said. “The train doesn’t come off the tracks and hunt you down.” LaCombe is available for free presentations for children and adults interested in learning more about train safety. Visit www.oli.org or call 1-800-537-6224 to schedule a presentation. Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 June 2009 Heads up new employees!!! Unless you have at least 7-10 years of service, time to dust off the old resumes... CSX plans to continue running on skeleton crews thru the July hours of service law change, and if they can still move their trains... yup, you guessed it... MORE FURLOUGHS!!! Get out now while you can...

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 June 2009 Mr. Gordon, could you please respond to Safety STike's request about providing more info on the Hensley case? Name: SAFETY STRIKE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 03 June 2009 Nice WSJ article, Z, but we need to hear MUCH more in the way of specifics from the law firm that handled the case. We need to know more of the facts of Mr. Hensley's case. He had brain cancer (?) and lung cancer (asbestosis) from exposure to toxic chemicals....what chemicals? How much exposure? What was the causative connection? . He had cancer(?), or he had symptoms of it (?), or he had a fear of the symptoms (?), or he had a fear of pending death from cancer, or.....something else was pleaded? It makes a difference. It is odd that the Court would not consider that Hensley had no fear of cancer (or a fear of dying for that matter) if he had no present ongoing stage one cancer. The Ayers standard for fear of cancer was 'proof of their apprehension of developing lung cancer in the future', which indicated that one did not need to actually have cancer, but had symptoms that could lead to cancer (plural plaques, cysts, high white cell blood count) but not actual cancer itself. Is the court saying something different? Is there now a higher standard based on something else? If so, what is that something else? What is the legal standard now for fear of cancer under FELA? Higher than merely apprehension, or apprehensions with associated predictive medical conditions. What is the standard now for 'genuine and serious'?. How high is the standard?. What would be threshhold examples? Is there a balancing test? What did Ayers say that the Court relied upon - or did not rely upon? Fear of cancer is fairly common in asbestos cases, and the standard is not "high".....seems like the FELA plaintiffs lawyers may have left the door open for a company friendly conservative court to come in and restate the rule of law. Why is FELA different from any other non-FELA fear of cancer case where brain cancer and asbestos related cancer are at issue? CSX argued that the instructions given to the jury were too friendly to Mr. Hensley - the jurors were ot instructed that Hensley needed to demonstrate that his fear of cancer was genuine and serious. How so? Is it simply a matter of issuing a jury instruction, or does plaintiff have to add additional facts to prove his case? "Although plaintiffs can seek fear-of-cancer damages in some...cases, they must satisfy a high standard in order to obtain them,". Ok, great. Ok, so again, what exactly meets the Court's definition of a "high standard" when seeking fear of cancer damages. Did Hensley win on other aspects of his case? What were they? Did he prove that his cancers (?) were caused to his exposure to toxic chemicals and to asbestos? Anything else this law firm can SPECIFICALLY tell us about the case would be EXTREMELY beneficial to every single railraod worker employed by CSX as well as the other carriers. We may be railroard workers, but we read these cases, and we like to know exactly what is going on. Thanks.

Name: z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 June 2009 Court rules for CSX in worker-injury case WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court Monday (June 1) threw out a $5 million jury verdict awarded to a former CSX Corp. railroad worker who alleged that he had been negligently exposed to toxic chemicals and asbestos on the job, which caused him to develop brain injuries and asbestosis, a lung disease. Among other things, Tennessee railroad worker Thurston Hensley sought monetary damages for a fear of developing cancer in the future, The Wall Street Journal reported. CSX argued that the instructions given to the jury were too friendly to Mr. Hensley. The company wanted jurors to be instructed that Mr. Hensley needed to demonstrate that his fear of cancer was genuine and serious. The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, ruled 7-2 that it was a "clear error" for the trial judge not to give the jury instructions CSX requested. "Although plaintiffs can seek fear-of-cancer damages in some...cases, they must satisfy a high standard in order to obtain them," the court's majority said. In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said, "As a practical matter, it is hard to believe the jury would have awarded any damages for Hensley's fear of cancer if it did not believe that fear to be genuine and serious." The Supreme Court decided the case without requesting a full legal briefing or hearing oral arguments, a sign that a majority of the justices believed the lower-court ruling was clearly wrong. The high court sent the case back for new court proceedings. CSX didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. (The preceding article by Brent Kendall was published June 1, 2009, by The Wall Street Journal.)

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 June 2009 Mr. Gordon, The Supreme Court opinion is most interesting, but could you possibly put it into the context of the King's English so that the majority of non-lawyers on this site can understand what the case means to them? Is the ruling applicable to asbestos disease cases only, or also to toxic chemicals, fumes, and exhaust as well. Is it just lung cancer, or does the fear of cancer extend to all types of cancer. Does a worker have to prove that he or she has stage one carcinoma, or is it enough to simply know that you have had exposure to a target group of carcinogenic causing chemicals to be at risk of cancer, thus have a "genuine and serious" fear of cancer? Much appreciated.

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 June 2009 ***PRESS RELEASE*** Significant Decision Affecting Rights of Injured FELA Workers On Monday, June 1st, the United States Supreme Court decided a case styled CSX Transportation, Inc. v Thurston Hensley 2009 WL 1506680 (U.S. June 1, 2009)). This case demonstrated the conservativeness of the Supreme Court, and their determination to exclude injured workers from recovering. The Supreme Court relied heavily upon a previously decided case, i.e., Norfolk & Western R. Co. v Ayers (538 U.S. 135). Ayers held that a plaintiff may recover for fear of cancer if he proves his fear is ‘genuine and serious’. Once the plaintiff has provided proof of their apprehension of developing lung cancer in the future, the law will provide compensation for those damages. At issue in the Hensley case was whether it was proper for the trial court to deny CSX its requested juror instructions. CSX requested the following instruction to be part of the charge: Charge One stated the basic requirements to obtain damages under Ayers. Plaintiff is also alleging that he suffers from a compensable fear of cancer. In order to recover, Plaintiff must demonstrate that the fear is genuine and serious.” Hensley first sued CSX in Tennessee state court. At the close of the trial, CSX requested an instruction that Hensley needed to have shown his fear of getting cancer was genuine and serious. The trial court refused to allow the instruction. The Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed, stating that they saw no purpose in instructing the jurors. If the jurors did not believe the plaintiff was genuine and serious in his fears, then little to no damages would be awarded to him. The Hensley court held the ruling of the Tennessee Court of Appeals and the refusal of the trial court to give the juror instructions were clear error. In Ayers, the Court expressly recognized that several “verdict control devices” were available to the trial court when a FELA plaintiff sought fear-of-cancer damages. One of the verdict control devices included that on a defendant's request, each plaintiff must prove any alleged fear to be genuine and serious. In Hensley, the trial court erred when it refused CSX’s request for a juror instruction on the genuine-and-serious standard of Hensley’s fear of cancer claim. The Hensley Court held that instructing the jury on fear of cancer damages would have been worthwhile. Given the fact that the cancer claim could have the potential to “evoke raw emotions” among the jurors made the need for a juror instruction on the legal standard even more vital. The Hensley Court somehow felt the need to bring up the numerous asbestos cases pending as a way of justifying the estimation of damages for plaintiffs. Their choice to bring up the cases was irrelevant and unnecessary. An interesting aspect to this case is found in the dissent. Justice Stevens, who had voted to affirm the Supreme Court decision in Ayers, displayed his contempt for the decision in this case. He stated that the new ruling authorized a fresh review of the jury’s damages award. Yet, as a matter of practicality, he noted that the jury would only award the amount of damages they felt was necessary. Justice Stevens further pointed out that CSX did not attack the $5 million dollar award as excessive. In that light, he further demonstrated that CSX did not request the trial court to ask the jury to award damages for each element of recovery. Had CSX done this, and the trial court had complied, then CSX’s challenge would only have gone to the amount awarded to the ‘fear of cancer’ amount and the entire verdict would not have had to have been thrown out. The Hensley Court’s decision to reverse and remand the case rests on the language in footnote 19 of the Ayers opinion. The footnote states: “In their prediction that adhering to the line drawn in Gottshall and Metro-North will, in this setting, bankrupt defendants, the dissents largely disregard, inter alia, the verdict control devices available to the trial court. These include, on a defendant's request, a charge that each plaintiff must prove any alleged fear to be genuine and serious, review of the evidence on damages for sufficiency, and particularized verdict forms.” Id., at 159, n. 19 The Hensley Court broadly interpreted the footnote, finding that anytime a defendant demanded an instruction, it must be given when involving fear of cancer. In contrast, Justice Stevens held that on the footnote’s face it merely points out that a defendant has the right to request a genuine-and-serious instruction, and if requested, the instruction is available to the trial court. It does not suggest that all instructions should be granted. The Hensley majority opinion deviated from Ayers stare decisis. The Court’s opinion, more than anything, will generate confusion regarding the Ayers case. The Ayers case had already suffered multiple interpretations by the courts. Given the opportunity to provide clarity to the holding of Ayers, the Hensley Court failed to meet this objective. In their rush to reverse the Tennessee Court of Appeals, they failed to correctly interpret Ayers and eliminate the confusion that plagued many courts. The Hensley opinion leaves the reader wondering why the Supreme Court failed to recognize the rights of workers who labor across America. This conservative approach greatly diminishes a worker’s ability to recover damages. ### Gordon & Elias, L.L.P., represents clients in all aspects of personal injury and wrongful death. They are a boutique law firm with a nationwide practice focusing on FELA (http://www.gordon-elias.com), Jones Act-Admiralty-Maritime Law (http://www.offshoreinjuries.com) and the associated Jones Act Blog (http://www.JonesActQuestions.com) and Trucking Accident Litigation (http://www.truckaccidentlaw.org). Gordon & Elias, L.L.P., was formed in 2000. Attorneys Steve Gordon and R. Todd Elias bring over 39 years of combined experience to the representation of their clients. The firm has the experience and resources to pursue recovery from large corporate defendants and/or their insurers. ###

Name: SAm E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 June 2009 Knock Knock "Who's there?" "RRJ" "RRJ Who?" "Ronald Raygun the Jerkoff, that's who".

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 June 2009 Sam the Foamer This is my last response to your stupidity. There that's it. Good-bye

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 June 2009 UTU 55k MEMBERS pay a $1.00 per month. Looks like $55,000.00 a Month Soon we are talking real MONEY. Cut the cord, cut the deduction, starve the worthless blood suckers, get even, get MAD. OR JUST PAY UP SUCKER

Name: SAm E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 June 2009 RRJ says were all going to hell in a hand basket cause nothing is going to change. Everybody be sure to line up for your ticket.

Name: lemonhead E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 June 2009 dude don't do that if you need to talk call me i'am for real 850-232-6347 terrance

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 June 2009 Then change the unions. It's not easy. The unions represent more than CSX. The western railroads have more voting power than the east. It's always been that way. Next year for the first time in our history every member of the BLE(T) will be able to vote on our leadership. I've been a member of the BLE for 29 years I've never seen one of our presidents show up at a division meeting or even a townhall meeting. Under the bylaws and constituation you can't even contact them without going through proper channels which is your GCA. Been there before. It's not that us "whiskers" don't care anymore in fact we're more vocal than those who have years left to work. The fact is we're the minority today. It's your turn to see if you can make change. The unions went downhill in the '80s after Raygun fired the Air Traffic Controllers. Unfortunately just like them we have to much goverment interferance not having the ability to strike on a moments notice. Most of you probably don't even go to union meeting.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 June 2009 Looks like Sam got Chicken Pecker's so upset he done went and got his chicken panties all tied up in a knot. Its a cryin shame that retirees have nothing better to do than be a cynical Walmart Greeter on Sucks. Life must be shitty for these old farts. I pity them. Sam has a point, and Z proves it - the old grey beards have a corn cob stuck so far up their collective anal retentive asses you'd have to go all the way to China to pull it out. Point is one union or many unions, the beef it the same. Incompetent leadership. We need exceptional gifted leaders, not corrupt Union politicians. Enough aleady. Weld that to your ear buddy.

Name: Fight the Power E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 01 June 2009 I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP. NOW GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE AND SHINE MY SHOES, BOY. BEFORE I KICK YOUR POOR WHITE TRASH ASS. FIGHT THE POWER

Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 June 2009 So now we don't need a new one as you have preached, just find the correct person to run "our union". Which is it, keep what we have or a new one. . He argues with me for over a month, that all unions need to be decertified and start a new one, now the old one is OK, just find the rite leader. You just like to argue and disagree. Your also wrong abut the ones with whiskers, which you also claim to have.

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 June 2009 There are honest people out here who would run an honest union. Like any organization, there are good people and there are bad apples. It all starts at the top, and trickles down. Many excellent organizations have grown from exceptional leadership. We just need to find the right person to run ours, and that is not an impossible task. The guys with long whiskers are numb to the graft and corruption, granted. But constantly spreading negativism without hope of improvement is no answer either. I think people want to hear messages of hope - not dispair. Which means we need to be talking about solutions to problems, not just the problems themeselves.

Name: fedup E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 June 2009 I want to start saying that I feel for all those cutoff, when I first hired I was on here preaching one union, we need to form 1 union, and as time progressed, I realized just what all the whiskers were saying were true-aint gonna happen. While there are alot of good men out here, greed prevails and it always will and csx as well as the unions know this. This place is just a place to vent and talk a good game, solidarity we dont have. To all the guys cut off, find other work and learn from this, for all those working, watch ur back and you brothers, I hear snakes are bad right now!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 May 2009 OK Boss, Whatever you say Mr Benny!!!!

Name: Fight The Power E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for N/A Posted: 31 May 2009 ONLY A CORPORATE WEASEL INVESTS IN CSX STOCK. IS THERE A WEASEL IN YOUR WALLET? T&E ARE OUR BITCHES. SO ARE YOU IDIOTS WHO BUY OUR STOCK. WE OWN YOU.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 May 2009 NoMo I agree. I basically stated let the stock artificially inflate and then get the hell out of it. I sold a huge portion of CSX when it hit 70.20 then when it went down to 65.00. What I reinvested in under the limited investment options in the 401K crashed. Sure in the long run I would be better to hold on to the other investments. I don't have a long run anymore. I'm going to be like those short term investors and run with it and know when to bail out. I don't have any faith or listen to Jim Kramer or any of the so-called speculative Guru's of the market. The USB article was amusing they told the truth of CSX always being the underdog of the railroads on stock price because of mismanagement. I bought back into CSX heavily earlier this year. I'll bail when the time is right.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 May 2009 Hey Loco 30+: No doubt CSX stock got a boost from the UBS upgrade. UBS must know something the other analyst don't...the consensus is still HOLD. I think UBS probably holds a substantial position of CSX stock and makes a market in it. UBS just wanted to cut their stake in CSX and what better way to increase your portfolio value, sell off some of your position, than to issue a STRONG BUY recommendation. I do think CSX stock will shadow the market and gain with the inevitable come back. You've already seen the market regain a large part of what it lost. When the market started it decline it was over bought. CSX stock never was worth $70/share. When it hit $70, anyone who owned it should have sold it. Remember Mad Money with Jim Cramer, he was touting the stock a buy when it was already over $60+/share. I think you bought in at a good price. At $32/share I think CSX is fairly valued, any thing over $42/share is probably too rich for my liking. You're right about Ward...he's at the top of the food change and hungry. Greed has been know to lead to creative accounting practices which can lead to overpriced stock. We have all become to dependent on other peoples expert opinions, the last 9 months have taught us that. CSX will keep the positive spin coming out of the PR Dept., fudging their operating results, ignoring safety, intimidating, harassing and working the crews to exhaustion. The worst thing that can happen is the recent fatality gets scrutinized. Business as usual!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 May 2009 Name: SmokinJoe E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 May 2009 You all have to realize- the main qualification for advancement in CSX is if Tony Ingram likes the feel of your lips on his ass! Give me a break- for example- within the past year, CSX announced a new VP-Mechanical. At the same time, a shortline was advertising for the same position. The guy CSX put in this position wouldn't have met the job requirements of the shortline. Any wonder this company is messed up?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Education work's really well!!

Name: Jim from Selkirk E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 30 May 2009 REPORT SAFETY VIOLATIONS TO FRA and UTU.ORG Civil Penalty Schedules In December, 2008 FRA issued a final rule increasing the civil penalties for violations of a railroad safety statute or regulation. The increase incorporates the new maximum civil penalty amounts authorized by the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and new minimum amounts required under the Federal Civil Penalty Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990. Specifically, FRA increased the minimum civil penalty per violation from $550 to $650, while the ordinary maximum civil penalty per violation will be increased from $16,000 to $25,000 and the aggravated maximum civil penalty per violation, where a grossly negligent violation or pattern of repeated violations has created an imminent hazard of death or injury, will be increased from $27,000 to $100,000. The new penalty schedule takes effect March 2, 2009. For more information contact: FRA Office of Public Affairs (202) 493-6024 www.fra.dot.gov February, 2009

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 May 2009 USB upgraded CSX stock to a "strong buy". Main reason perceptive mismanagement has kept CSX stock way below other railroad stocks. That even through mismanagement the stock has only one way to go up. It's only rated as a short-term buying oppertunity. Which I understand I invested everything into CSX at 23.84 a share a few months back. I'll be like those who run this corporation sell when it peeks only difference is they make millions in one day. I'll take my profit in the ten of thousands and run with it. Even at the current price at 0945 this morning of $30.20 someone would be foolish not to buy. I look for CSX to be in the low $50 range within the next year an a half or sooner. With the 401k's crashing over the past 16 months it's a great way recover some money. Got to remember Mikey Ward went through a nasty divorce last year. The ex-Mrs Ward got a lot in the divorce settlement. Ward had to sell $41 mil in CSX stock under the divorce. He has to recoup his losses. Whether we dislike the way things are running as employees this is a great oppertunity to cash in especially for those of us who are short-timers.

Name: SmokinJoe E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 May 2009 You all have to realize- the main qualification for advancement in CSX is if Tony Ingram likes the feel of your lips on his ass! Give me a break- for example- within the past year, CSX announced a new VP-Mechanical. At the same time, a shortline was advertising for the same position. The guy CSX put in this position wouldn't have met the job requirements of the shortline. Any wonder this company is messed up?

Name: Ken D. E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 29 May 2009 I support your efforts to stop unsafe working conditions on CSX. Jury awards $1.2 million to injured BNSF worker Posted on April 7 By the Associated Press BILLINGS - A District Court jury in Billings has awarded $1.2 million in damages to a former BNSF Railway employee who suffered a spinal injury two years ago. The verdict was reached late Friday, following a two-week trial before District Judge Susan Watters. Ken R. Dellos, 52, of Sheridan, Wyo., had worked as an engineer for the railroad for 30 years before being injured in April 2006. He filed a civil lawsuit later that year. The jury found the railroad violated the federal Locomotive Inspection Act and was liable for Dellos' injuries. Dellos was awarded $840,000 in lost wages and $360,000 for pain and suffering, said his attorney, Fred Bremseth. Dellos says he was relieved by the verdict. He says he's taking college classes toward a career in social work. Michelle Friend, a Billings attorney who represented the railroad, was not available for comment Monday.

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Sam is still just Sam. Chicken Pecker on the other hand, is, well, self explanatory....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 29 May 2009 Sam has been a busy boy under safety today. Post one thread and then another right behind it, 2 names.

Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Loco30+ still obsesses. Engineer my ass. Zodiac stalker - yep. .................................................................... Yep, been stalking you all day. Sitting here watching you post one thread after another under different names. eng 30 plus, lmao. Take me up on my offer.

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Loco30+ still obsesses. Engineer my ass. Zodiac stalker - yep.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Simeon - Cincinnati, Sam you at it again?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Like RRJ said, you sre sick. We can spot someone posting under multiple names in a heart beat. We all know you answer youself to try and make your bs look good. Take us up on my offer with the web master. Or are you chicken shit? Engineer my ass.

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Loco30+, your the only guy on here who has his head stitched on backwards to see who is sneaking up behind him. The boogy man out to get you?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 May 2009 Sam has another new name, Fight The Power. CSX doesn't own me Sam, I DON'T work for them.

Name: Sam the Railroad Man E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 Kung Foo Chicken Pecker, you have been annointed Master Kung Foo Chicken Pecker by The Chicken King hissself, Jimmie Hoffa, Jr., and has bestowed upon you the Royal Order of Turkey Basters. All hail the King. So, let's check in and see what the critics are saying about you and your fellow Chicken Peckers: Note: IQ of more than 1 is required. ************************************ Name: FIGHT THE POWER E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 May 2009 You Union T&E guys don't have the intelligence or the will to strike. Half of you guys would still work for CSX if we cut your pay in half. Do you think that payroll makes that many mistakes? We decline...you forget....we decline, you re-submit, we re-decline. We know how the cattle work. It is up to us to make sure the cattle do the work we tell them to do. We are Management, we make the rules- It's our game. You guys are just pieces on our board. All those older men out there know it too. Your Union Locals know it. So, cry all day long about how much you want changes, but I've seen girl scout troops more organized than you guys. FIGHT THE POWER! ******************************************************************** Karate Kid aka Master Baster Drunken Kung Foo Chicken Pecker still doesn't get it. Even after Corporate sticks his head in the toilet and flushes, he STILL doesnt get it. That's why they love you Chicken Pecker. CSX owns you lock, stock and barrel. When God was given brains out at birth, you though he said 'come and get your trains", and you missed yours. Better luck on the rebound.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 May 2009 Chicken Pecker's fingers must be getting sore by now.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FekVR_SC5M Sam we know how chickens excite you. The song has the word chicken in it and this style of guitar playing is known as chicken picken. Don't ell the jailer we snuck it in to you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 NEWS UPDATE It has now been determined that Sam less than 1, was involved in a elaborate plot, to try to seduce chickens, by claiming to be a engineer with 30, who was supposedly forming a new union. It was all an elaborate hoax to keep up the high demand of his appetite for chicken peckers. It was also discovered he was trying to organize a strike in which he offered to let Z walk the picket line at night. He planned on trying to molest Z under the cover of darkness. Luckily for all chickens, Z was the one Sam decided to molest. He didn't realize Z was one bad chicken. If it had not been for Z no chicken in America would be safe tonight. Sam was asked from his jail cell if he was guilty. He adamantly denied the charges as chicken feathers flew out of his mouth while speaking.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH A person named Sam, who claims to be a locomotive engineer with 30 years service was just arrested for trying to molest a chicken. CSX police say the chicken was named Z and is one bad chicken. As Sam, whose real identity was later identified as a brakeman less than one, with MPD was trying to get into the chickens pants, Z, the bad ass chicken, kicked Sam's ass all over the yard. We were able to secure a quote from Sam as he was taken to jail, in which he replied, " I can't help myself I just love chicken peckers. I didn't know Z was one bad ass chicken. He kicked my wimpy ass good, but I'm sure my new union will get me out of this."

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 Make sure you give us a full report on your Local Union Meet'n with the boys, Chicken Pecker. We're all waiting with eager ears and baited breath. LMAO. .................................................................... Here it is for you Engineer Sam(cough, cough ). It is not a local Union meeting, it's much bigger than that. It is top secret. I've already called NoMo and RRJ to tell them about it. I e-mailed everyone else on the site except you. I even called Goober. By the way he could answer the 2 top secret questions I asked you, so I gave him all the top secret information about our top secret meeting. I will drop you a hint. The meeting opened in hysterical laughter about some dumb ass on CSX-sucks named Sam. You made Union history Sam. Everyone did send their condolences, hoping the meds helped you get well from the MPD.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 Loco30+ blames the FRA, the Company, the Unions, and the apathetic membership for allowing our present state of dis-array. As for the Selkirk murder - everyone else is to blame - you dont want to strike, you hate the present union, you dont want a new union, you want change but dont know how to do it, you dont want anyone's advice or opinion on how to change anything because you have all the answers - all negative, and no one else knows anything anyway and were all going to hell in a hand basket cause there is no hope. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, There you go twisting words and even putting some new ones in. I never said I was against a safety strike. I said it wouldn't happen with out the internationals approval. The blame on the murder in Selkirk falls on CSX. I said that from the start. Yes the FRA, railroads and unions are all to blame in letting the railroads run rampant with regards to safety. I never said I hated the present union, I said they were out of touch with the men in the trenches. You never have give facts or opinions on how to change things, all you do is rant. I told you how to start changing things from the start and all you want to do is keep posting under a thousand names. Theres plenty of hope. I see you couldn't answer some simple questions either Loco. 30 plus. Tried to avoid 2 simple questions you were asked, by dishing out more BS, the way you always do.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 Old Sam says he is the best Engineer. (No, there your go misquoting again - got dementia? I said I was a better engineer than YOU, peckerhead, which isn't saying much since all the other engineers are better than you too). ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Duh, What did I say. Read my words , you said you were the best engineer. So are you now saying your not the best engineer, that I am. DUHHHHHHHHHHH.

Name: sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 Chicken Pecker's feathers got ruffled. Look out! He's jumpin around like a Mexican jelly bean. Goober is laughing his ass off. Old Sam says he is the best Engineer. (No, there your go misquoting again - got dementia? I said I was a better engineer than YOU, peckerhead, which isn't saying much since all the other engineers are better than you too). Explain how to obtain a AB release on conventional 2nd generation locomotives or newer. (oh good lord, chicken pecker, now your going to waste everyone's time telling us how smart and brainy you are with locomotives. Professor Chicken Pecker, PhD (piled higher, deeper) at your service). I have Union business to attend to. (LOL. Pleae lord make me stop laughing. Your killn me. Chicken Pecker, we can only guess what "union business" your attending to ...let's see, what's on the agenda today? "Curly, your in charge of hand'n out beer. Moe, your on lookout duty for Trainmasters. Larry, your in charge of Moe and Curly. Chicken Pecker, your in charge of the Turkey Baster." Loco30+ blames the FRA, the Company, the Unions, and the apathetic membership for allowing our present state of dis-array. As for the Selkirk murder - everyone else is to blame - you dont want to strike, you hate the present union, you dont want a new union, you want change but dont know how to do it, you dont want anyone's advice or opinion on how to change anything because you have all the answers - all negative, and no one else knows anything anyway and were all going to hell in a hand basket cause there is no hope. If you ask me, that's not a leader. That sounds like someone ready to dig a hole and make a grave for themselves. Make sure you give us a full report on your Local Union Meet'n with the boys, Chicken Pecker. We're all waiting with eager ears and baited breath. LMAO.

Name: lemon head E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 May 2009 in june the hours of service law will kick in and help right???

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 RRJ and I know there is only one Goober.

Name: Goober E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 28 May 2009 I am not Sam. Or, maybe I am. Ha ha. You'll NEVER know. Ha Ha.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 He's not Goober, RRJ. I just gave Sam (Loyd, George etc etc) or what ever name he uses today the insult of saying he may be Goober. He still thinks we are one person. I see he didn't take me up on the offer of letting the webbie post that we were different people, if he would let the webmaster post how many names he post under. No he's not Goober. Goober just pops in every 4 or 5 days when he gets off his meds. Old Sam says he is the best Engineer. As long as they send me my check and I make it home every trip, I will let him claim the title, for we know Sam is always correct in his view. Good engineers don't have to appoint themselves as being good, everyone knows who are good, bad or the best. It shows everyday they run. He tells us everyday in very long boring threads how smart and good he is. He already showed me who he is and how he thinks, when he kept up the post on the wish list. Every time I think about it I laugh. Two pages of stupidity posted on his part. Here's your chance to prove you are a engineer, Sam. I even posted this one time on here for a student engineer. Explain how to obtain a AB release on conventional 2nd generation locomotives or newer. Are you a UTUE also? Must be not knowing anything about the BLE. Talking all your bull shit about a secret site for members only. You looked like a total idiot. Any engineer with 30 years service knows how to log in to OUR web site, except Sam. Well Sam I won't have time to keep you honest for a few days. I have Union business to attend to. Something you like to talk about, but are clueless in. Why don't you get off your ass and go to a union meeting, ask any engineer there how to get your password for the BLE site. In fact you can sign up on line if you know the right answers to give. HHmmmmmmmmm, 30 years, must have got to run from the jump seat a few times in his life, looking out the port hole. LMFAO OH NO, Sam has to go google now or ask someone so he can answer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 May 2009 the webmaster can block him, just has to ban his ip address...and if he is on dialup just block the whole ip subnet he is under.

Name: Sam the Railroad Man E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 Sorry Z, you lost the Zorro title after posting you that you are in real life a drunken Japanese one-legged chicken pecking kung foo wocki socki bedroom fighter. I think Chicken Pecker has an FELA claim against CSX for intentional infliction of mental psychosis brought on by a trainmaster's post hypnotic suggestion that changed him into a Japanese Chicken Pecker in accordance with the CSX Black Belt Program. If your 100% union, that's good. We will let you carry a sign on the picket line from midnight to 8 - less chance for you to get into trouble. Lloyd is correct. With the NS joining the strike, the outcome will be pre-ordained and it wont be pretty for the roads. I will enjoy seeing Mike Ward sweat in front of an angry panel of Senators on Capital Hill in front of a national television audience - and then he and his cronies will be summarily fired. As for you Chicken Pecker, will cut you some slack due to your 'condition'. Sorry I dont speak Chickenese, but here is some Japanese for you: Momotaro wa oui no taisho to tatakaimashita, lil spunky chicken.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2009 I never thought about it. Goober/Goofy is another idiot that might be posting under various names & titles. Good one. It definitely has his style of stupidity.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 May 2009 RRJ is a dumb ass. He posts under different IDs - Loco30+, Allman Brothers, and a bunch of others too long to go into. Too bad we cant block him off this site. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Block all you want, you will be blocking a lot of us Sam. Why don't you get one name and stay with it, you chicken butt licker. Allman Brothers, RRJ and NoMo say your Goober posting as Sam and 2000 more names. If you don't believe we are different people e-mail the webmaster and ask if it's 3 different people. I also go by Z because Sambo gave me the name Zorro. Which he was right, I'm everywhere and 100 percent union. I dream union in my sleep, that is if I slept. Let's see if Sam has the same nuts to get the webmaster to post how many names he post under and we shall see how many times he answers himself. He hasn't got any nuts though. Hes been a gilding since he went to work for the RR,

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 May 2009 Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 May 2009 RRj you dont know what your talking about at russell conductors dont have to take a call, you can even ansewer and say no, unless its your job and your turn, no one can force you to step up, also cut back engineers cant be forced to step up to run a engine they do cause they want to make as much as they can I agree with conductor 1-10 there suck asses. **************************************************************** RRJ is a dumbass. He posts under different IDs - Loco30+, Allman Brothers, and a bunch of others too long to go into. Too bad we cant block him off this site.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 May 2009 HELLO FELLAS I WANTED TO KNOW IF ANY CONDUCTORS or engineers HAVE DELIVERED COAL TO KINDER MORGAN IN NEWPORT NEWS VIRGINIA? WHO FIXES THE TRACK ON THEIR PROPERTY AND CAN I HAVE SOME INSIGHT ON THE PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE? anything would be apreciated, and good luck out there rail roaders it's tough, thanks.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 May 2009 RRj you dont know what your talking about at russell conductors dont have to take a call, you can even ansewer and say no, unless its your job and your turn, no one can force you to step up, also cut back engineers cant be forced to step up to run a engine they do cause they want to make as much as they can I agree with conductor 1-10 there suck asses.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 May 2009 To all the guys at Russell stepping up to help the company I hope your making plenty of money while 81 of sit at home, most not able to draw anything till july 1. I'll remember who you are, and also why don't you all just apply for management jobs since your so concerned with doing CSX favors you greedy non union acting suck asses, your the reason why our unions are week.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 May 2009 thank you very much for the input wildman, the type of jobs that i was looking at with kinder morgan were: maintenance man, compared to(csx freight cart repair) facility worker, compared to (csx track worker) loader, compared to (csx heavy equipment operator) machinist, compared to (csx machinist), and i also think that kinder morgan is a non union if i am not mistaken, just wanted to know who would i be better off. i do not know if any one on this site has any one that works or knows of kinder morgan. I also know this web site says CSX sucks but it could be worth a try, any inputs will be greatly apreciated. thanks railroaders!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 May 2009 hello, rail roaders!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO IS IT BETTER TO WORK FOR AS FAR AS A MAINTENANCE WORKER, CSX OR KINDERMORGAN (PLANT OR COAL YARD)!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE NEED ALL INPUTS I AM TRYING TO SAVE MY SELF FROM MAKING A BIG MISTAKE, NEED HELP!

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 20 May 2009 Has anyone performed a whizzinator check on our union lately to see if is has any balls?

Name: SAM E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 May 2009 Z, you back from Grandma's house? How were your milk and cookies? Oh - my - god. Just posted this on every section. whaddayaknow. Say Z, when the CSX homos demand you pee in their bottle while they hold your Johnson to ensure authenticity of personal urination, you gonna thank the Unions for their support? LOL. Dont forget - milk and cookies at 5.

Name: SAFETY STRIKE E-mail: SAFETY STRIKE. COM Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 19 May 2009 STOP THE KILLINGS AND THE INJURIES. SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE! SAFETY STRIKE!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 May 2009 Is there any reason why we need more that one board to post? I'm getting tired of reading folks complaining about multiple posts!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 May 2009 I only worked at csx for 89 days before i got laid off. anyone know when they will call back?

Name: SAFETY STRIKE E-mail: WWW.SAFETY STRIKE.COM Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 18 May 2009 When they strip me down to check out my WhizzyInAteHer, assume the CSX queers will be trying to suck me off as part of their safety enforcement "duties". This is all a diversion from the real issue - CSX is killing and injuring employees, and they are trying to blame the worker for their unsafe working conditions. I can remember when the Trainmaster would pour alchohol on the corpse and then claim the guy was drunk. Cover ups and lies. That's all it is. SAFETY STRIKE!

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 May 2009 Dear All- On Friday the 15th, the United States Court of Appeals in D.C. decided a case styled BNSF v. Dept. of Transportation. It has to do with the railroads performing urinalysis tests on railroad employees but there is more. The DOT argued and prevailed that the railroad must now strip the person down to make sure they are not using a device that looks like male genitalia (in the opinion it was called a "Whizzinator" but, apparently, there are others)when giving the urine. I have posted an article in Yardlimits.com and attached the opinion in a Microsoft Word attachment so you can download it and read it for yourself. The link is here: http://www.yardlimits.com/forums/ask-attorney-steve-gordon-gordon-elias-law-firm/12298-casey-jones-whizzinator-gig-no-good.html#post114211 From an academic constitutional law perspective it is a monumental and radical departure from 4th Amendment precedent albeit a foreseeable result due to the compelling need to have a drug free workplace in the transportation industry. However, from a railroad employee's perspective it is extremely intrusive and embarrassing. I highly recommend reading the opinion. Sincerely, Steve Gordon www.gordon-elias.com

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 May 2009 Greece, N.Y)- Some abandoned CSX cars that left people in a Greece neighborhood with eyesores in their backyard, were finally moved Saturday. The cars were sitting just feet from neighbors backyards for weeks. CSX blamed the recession as the reason, saying consumers are buying less therefore rail cars shipping less. Neighbors in the Pebbleview Neighborhood say they're thankful that the cars are no longer there.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 May 2009 "the railway company CSX, placed the property in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, telling a judge that it was "unable and unwilling to continue funding" losses." If CSX can go bankrupt on an individual property, Please, Please Go bankrupt on the Conrail properties from 1999. Return them to a Good railroad company. Thanks :)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 May 2009 "the railway company CSX, placed the property in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, telling a judge that it was "unable and unwilling to continue funding" losses." WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- The Greenbrier resort's new owner -- the man who outmaneuvered the mighty Marriott International -- is a coal baron who just sold some mines to the Russians for $436 million. He is enormous and boisterous, standing 6-foot-7 and weighing enough that he calls himself a "fat hog." He is the president of the local youth baseball league and coach of the girls' high school basketball team and is driven around town by his buddy Moe. "These people haven't seen anything quite like me," James C. Justice II said the other day, over a sandwich and fries at the resort. And neither has Marriott, which last night agreed to a settlement with Justice to avoid a battle in federal bankruptcy court in Richmond, where the two sides were scheduled to wrangle for control of the historic resort -- the place where Joseph and Rose Kennedy honeymooned and 26 presidents have visited. (Prince Rainier and Princess Grace stopped by, too.) With Justice winning control, some residents said, he will forever be seen as a savior to this quiet town in the mountains whose fortunes have fallen alongside the resort. The Greenbrier has endured hundreds of layoffs and brutal labor negotiations amid a steep drop-off in guest visits. The prospect that a local man, not some corporate muckety-muck, could be signing their paychecks had even led residents to pack churches and praise Justice. "I believe the Good Lord sent him for us," said Greg Scott, a preacher and doorman at the hotel for more than a dozen years who has seen 14 of his neighbors laid off. "We had no hopes, no plans. It was a glorious day when he arrived." That was less than two weeks ago, after Justice surprised the town and executives at Bethesda-based Marriott International by announcing that he had bought the resort for $20 million. In March, the hotel's previous owner, the railway company CSX, placed the property in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, telling a judge that it was "unable and unwilling to continue funding" losses. As part of the bankruptcy, CSX made a deal to sell the resort to Marriott for $60 million to $130 million, depending on the resort's future financial performance. CSX also agreed to give Marriott $50 million to run the hotel. The deal was contingent on CSX winning an agreement with the resort's unions that was also agreeable to Marriott. An accord was reached, and everything was looking spiffy for the world's largest hotel chain. But Justice, who owns coal mines and large farming operations in several nearby states, was lurking. He went to CSX in April, offering to buy the stock in the entity that owned the resort, assume the debt and move to have the bankruptcy case dismissed -- an unusual step, according to bankruptcy experts, who said buyers usually prefer to acquire assets out of bankruptcy free of debt. Why would Justice go through all the trouble to take on a business he knows nothing about and take on more than $100 million in bills? He said it had nothing to with the state recently approving casino gambling at the resort: "That's just bull snot," Justice said. "I don't want to damage these people anymore. I live here. I don't want to dash their hopes," he said. "I am honestly stone-cold confident that I can bring to the table a lot of good stuff. I won't be the guy who thinks with the standard hotel mentality. This place can't be run that way." Marriott officials met with Justice in Lewisburg, W.Va., yesterday to strike a deal. Under their settlement, both sides have 30 days to come to an agreement allowing Marriott to market the property and receive a fee for any guests it generates for the resort. If an agreement is not reached, Justice will pay a $7.5 million breakup fee, Justice said. "We have amicably resolved any dispute with Mr. Justice, and we will not oppose the motion to dismiss the bankruptcy," Marriott said in a statement. No matter what the outcome of the talks, Justice has won total control of the Greenbrier. "I needed the control," Justice said in an interview. "I'd be letting these people down without it." Justice won over the community by hiring back furloughed workers and reopening the union contract to increase health insurance and other benefits, including allowing employees to eat one meal a day at the resort. Last week, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III (D) and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV threw their support behind Justice, saying he's the right person to run the national historic landmark. A four-hour drive from Washington, Greenbrier features 721 rooms, 10 lobbies, three golf courses, a large medical clinic for executive checkups and a once-secret bunker for Congress to convene in the event of a nuclear attack. "I would hope Marriott sees we have someone here with the passion, the wherewithal and the resources to own the Greenbrier," Manchin said in an interview. Rockefeller sent Justice a handwritten note saying: "I can't tell how proud I am of you and how happy I am for West Virginia. Without a doubt you have absolutely saved the Greenbrier." White Sulphur Springs, like many small towns, harbors resentment toward corporate America, which has brought Wal-Marts and other big-box stores to town and -- in the view of some residents -- sucked local businesses dry. On Main Street, barber Mike Lane can look through the shop's window and see that all of the stores across the street are for rent. "Are they going to crumble, or are there going to be some businesses there?" Lane said. "I'd like to see more businesses. I'd like to cut more hair." He said he thinks someone with ties to the town has a more vested interest in the resort. "I want him to do well," he said. Peter Bostic, the union's business manager, agreed with Lane. "He will hold the place closer to the chest than an international company," Bostic said. Justice said his immediate goals include beginning work on a casino, but more important, he wants to win back the resort's Mobil five-star rating, which it lost in 1999. The key to earning that fifth star, he said, was improving his employees' outlook. His theory is that if his employees are happy, they will make the guests happy. If that sounds familiar, it's what J.W. Marriott Jr. has preached for decades. "I think it's all driven by state of mind," Justice said. "These people here are great. But how great can you be when you are worried if your family is going to be supported? These people have been through a really tough go of it and so we are in the process of lifting the cloud and bringing the sun back out."

Name: Jacksonville Division E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 14 May 2009 We need to Safety Strike, even if it means a WILD CAT. The unions dont care. who needs them. WILD CAT STRIKE - SAFETY STRIKE.

Name: clyde B. E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 14 May 2009 The Union needs to call a SAFETY STIKE. CSX will kill, maim or injure all of us. They dont care. STRIKE!

Name: FUQCSX E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 May 2009 STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!

Name: SAM the RAILROAD MAN E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 13 May 2009 STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE!

Name: Ennis E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2009 I was saddened to hear about a fallen brother in Selkirk. I do not know the details of this tragic accident. My sympathy goes to his family. I do believe that CSX has put men in harms way in order to save a few dollars. I cannot understand a 1 man remote job- IT IS UNSAFE! I cannot understand a yard job with just an engineer and a foreman. All yard jobs should have a switchman, and all remotes should have 2 men. Why did the unions let them cut the jobs? I hate RCO jobs! I believe for safety reasons that WE should DEMAND change! I call for a SAFETY STRIKE! I am only one man/ one voice, but I realize that under these working conditions, Each and every one of us is at risk every day we are out here. One thing I have seen is a bunch of apathy in most workers here at CSX. The Company is run like crap! A bunch of morons making stupid decisions that affect our lives- LITERALLY! WE need to show solidarity to effect change. Everyone here knew it was just a matter of time until someone paid the ultimate sacrifice. Thank God that you are able to read this today, because it could be you tomorrow. Again, I feel for this man's family in their time of grief; my prayers are with them. If the allegations are correct about the TM, then someone needs to take him for a long walk. I hope the family sues for Billion$. I hope they bankrupt this Company! SAFETY STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 May 2009 Dear All- I am a lawyer that sues railroads. In our firms experience, only in VERY rare circumstances, do the railroads ever try to be fair to an injured employee. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the exact moment you make a report of injury you become the "enemy". It does not matter that you have given all you have to give for the railroad. CSX is, by far, the worst of the worst. They will convince people to lie about their injury after persuading them not to make a report. They will actually fly head honchos in from Jacksonville to do this. They know the person got hurt at work but they will just stand their and watch the person make a false statement after hours of intimidation. We like suing railroads and we like getting Managers under oath. Their evil ways do not stop with just injuries. They will do the same to a widow and try and quick settle with them. Sincerely, Lie Hunter

Name: Michael Lindsey--UP Conductor E-mail: usdevildog1987@hotmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 May 2009 That is terrible about the fatality on CSX the other night. I HATE RCL's HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THEM. They are dangerous as hell. When I first hired out for the UP in Oakland, CA someone was run over and cut in half while operating a remote. Yet, the Class 1's love to save money, even at the expense of efficiency and more importantly, lives. What ever happened to the days of honesty, for the sake of doing what is right???? I would rather be furloughed than to work RCL. Does anyone know the details of the story (when, where, how, who) I would like to submit this to the national news. Someone should. How is it that baseball players on steroids, or the miss america pageant are on the news for days, but when it comes to reporting a death on one of the unsafe class 1's, it is always covered up.....AND NEVER REPORTED Why........

Name: fedup E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2009 Criminal charges should be pursued by this family, against the trainmaster as well as csx, accidental deaths are prosecutable if there was neglect, and the trainmaster definitely showed neglect. The coverup is underway.

Name: SAM, the UNION MAN E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 May 2009 STRIKE. UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS. STRIKE. STRIKE. STRIKE. STRIKE. STRIKE. STRIKE. STRIKE. STRIKE. STRIKE. How many times does it have to be said?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 May 2009 A UTU member was fatally injured tonight on a one man remote control assignment which was an East End puller in Selkirk, NY. I have been advised he was ordered to change a knuckle by himself after requesting assistance from the car department. The unofficial report is he twice requested assistance from the car department as was ordered both times by the trainmaster in charge he would be required to change the knuckle without the assistance of the car department

Name: avejoe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 May 2009 hey there shockey there is nothing wrong with hairy women maybe black women but not hairy lol fuck csx fuck the econmy and fuck all those working for csx makin the big bucks i see you drive by and flip you off sorry in advance for this lol

Name: Justin Shockey E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 07 May 2009 Matt Sanders loves fat, black, hairy woman from what I hear when I went to my investigation the other day. Look out Predator!!!! He is coming for you!!!hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahha And winning an arguement from a CSX employee in Baltimore (LET ALONE IF IT IS ON LINE OR NOT) is not hard. It is LIKE FIGHTING IN THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS!!!hahahahahahhahahahahaha Just working there is a tribute to the special Olympics!!!hahahahahahah Dumbass waterheads!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 May 2009 The Cock Sucker Xpress is looking for a few good cock suckers to fill up TM slots. All you ass kissin sausage lickn butt sniffin collatobors start linin up.

Name: E-mail: BNSFis the BEST Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 May 2009 We call them the Cock Sucker Express on our rails. LOL Run by Cock Suckers in Jacksonville and other places. High rate of gays run CSX Maybe that is why it is so fucked up. BNSF is a real railroad run better than the rest.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 May 2009 Need more monikers for CSX? Try these: Common Sense eXtinct Crappy Shitty eXpress Crashed, Smashed, eXploded Crooked Sadistic eXecutives Cut (jobs) Screw (employees & customers) eXterminate (morale)

Name: Santa's Little Helper E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 May 2009 CSX stands for Chicken Shit Xpress

Name: Santa's Little Helper E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 May 2009 CSX stands for Chicken Shit Express

Name: Michael Lindsey E-mail: usdevildog1987@hotmail.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 May 2009 You know, CSX is just as bad as any of the Class 1's. I work for the UP in Pocatello, ID, although I have followed my seniority all the way to Las Vegas, NV, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and all places in between. No matter what the sacrifices that you make for them, they will never thank you, they will never give you encouragement, they will never pay you what they owe you, and then they will just furlough you when times get a little slow....and throw you out like a piece of garbage. After 3 years of doing everything that was required of me, and working hard for their benefit, my wife and I are starving and about to loose our house and our car because they cannot see any way to not furlough me. Meanwhile, the boards are being kept really short, and crews are almost always turning on their rest. Many times there is not even a crew ready to be called, but yet there are almost 500 people in my seniority district cut off. Yeah, that makes a ton of since.........Its all the same, whether your on the "Usually Parked Railroad," the "Bigger Now Still Fucked Railroad" the "Nazi Southern Railroad" or the CSX (I dont know a good acronym) They like to give their train crew employees the shaft. Nothing you can do to change it, because the union lets them get away with it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 May 2009 From the REAL FOGHORN LEGHORN, That sounds like something I WOULD LOVE TO DO!!!!! I have to agree with the gentleman below who tried to use my nickname to cover up for himself. But I have to give respect to him for two reasons: 1) He used my nickname to say something "I" would love to do and he used my name because he STILL works at that shit hole unlike me because I am more intelligent than any CSX management, let alone CSX employee in Baltimore and got the hell out when the timing was right!!! (I realize this website is looked at globally, let alone nation wide. But that doesn't take much to be more intelligent than anyone in Baltimore...PERIOD!!) 2) I consider you a gentleman for being on the same page I am. I honestly consider that a compliment and THANK YOU!!:0):0):0):0)...Use my nickname all you want!!!!! Have a safe CSX DAY!!! Safety is a way of life!!! You will need it in BALTIMORE!!!LMAO LMAO LMAO No matter what route you go!!!... :0):0):0).... FOGHORN LEGHORN.......(Whats up Danny??)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 May 2009 Well Lloyd, I was prepared to join you in the great CSX swine flu epidemic yesterday, but I got cut off again and couldn't even hold anything to mark off from... but I was there with you guys that had the balls to do it in spirit. I hope the HOS law comes into effect shortly and is not delayed again and Mikey Ward and the boys take it straight up the arse!!! Maybe some of our furloughed brothers and sisters can actually mark back up then!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 May 2009 How does Will have time to go to parties? I guess being Bob Frulla's nephew has its privileges.

Name: foghorn leghorn E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 May 2009 Last night, I fucked Michael Ward's soon- to -be ex- wife. I bent that little whore like a pretzel and shot a load in her ass. It was the least I could do for the team. Video footage to follow.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 May 2009 In re the post from the new hire con that was recently furloughed. I know this won't be much solace to you and your furloughed Brothers and Sisters...you have heard tales of woe from old head engineers and conductors. Being furloughed for years at a time for their first 20 years of service. If I remember correctly, most of the tales involved being furloughed in late September or October and usually lasted 6 months or more...In my case I hired out (May) in Mobile and was forced to New Orleans to cub. I was furloughed after Labor Day for about 6 months. For the last 4 or 5 years the bitching about being furloughed has started after Labor Day depending on the terminal and rolls across the system with the recalls starting around Easter. The carrier and the union has done an abysmal job of projecting manpower needs...nothing like being furloughed at Christmas! You didn't mention how many years of service you have...if you lasted until March you probably have 3+. The bitching about furloughs really didn't crank up until after the first of the year. I made a post last summer about the economy, furlough season starting early, cutting deep and lasting long. I hope I'm wrong, only time will tell. You no doubt have been following the often heated debate about union representation and responsiveness to their memberships. Perhaps the widespread furloughs didn't start until after the holidays can be attributed to the union and the carrier...it would be nice to at least think so. The economy was in the tank at the end of last summer...that's when the furlough should have started. Then again the discipline policy could have played a part!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 01 May 2009 Goobers in the bottle again. He's tighter than dicks hat band. Old drunk lush, I say.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 May 2009 How sorry can a person really BE. Furloughed in March 2009. Was called back with other starving conductors and made more in 4 weeks than he made in 2 months. This dude just want's a steady pay check. Those job's are easy to find. Mgt say's no more lay off's, are you kidding me! We have a recruiting failure. Sure hope he has paid his union dues,and red board insurance. cause he just might not have any support with out them. HE HE As far as just a number and subject to CSX needs you are right. That is exactly what you are. Might be hard to swallow, you might want to get comfortable with it slowly??? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 April 2009 I got furloughed in march and sat at home listening to guys from work bitching about how much they were working. 8 on 8 off for those guys the whole time I was off. times got tough for the queensgate yard. the crew callers couldn't fill jobs half the time so they called me and 9 other starving conductors back. the management at QUEENSGATE said we wouldn't have to worry about being laid off again, but here I sit 4 weeks later furloughed again. I made more money in the 4 weeks back than i did in the first 2 months of the year. So what is my point? CSX MANAGEMENT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY, YOU ARE JUST A NUMBER SUBJECT TO THEIR NEEDS!!! WHEN THEY NEED YOU YOU BETTER ANSWER WHEN YOU NEED THEM YOU GET AN ANSWERING MACHINE AND NO RETURN CALLS OR EXPLANATION WHY!!! I know times are bad economically, but there is plenty of work in Cincinnati to have kept us on the xtraboard.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 April 2009 This is for Will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYYbfwYlfu4

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 April 2009 God I love fat woman!!!:0) So does Will Blanchetti apparently.. He came to our party the other night with this woman. I swear to you, if this woman wore high heels, we were striking oil!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 April 2009 I got furloughed in march and sat at home listening to guys from work bitching about how much they were working. 8 on 8 off for those guys the whole time I was off. times got tough for the queensgate yard. the crew callers couldn't fill jobs half the time so they called me and 9 other starving conductors back. the management at QUEENSGATE said we wouldn't have to worry about being laid off again, but here I sit 4 weeks later furloughed again. I made more money in the 4 weeks back than i did in the first 2 months of the year. So what is my point? CSX MANAGEMENT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY, YOU ARE JUST A NUMBER SUBJECT TO THEIR NEEDS!!! WHEN THEY NEED YOU YOU BETTER ANSWER WHEN YOU NEED THEM YOU GET AN ANSWERING MACHINE AND NO RETURN CALLS OR EXPLANATION WHY!!! I know times are bad economically, but there is plenty of work in Cincinnati to have kept us on the xtraboard.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 April 2009 Never have I seen a company get away with not paying employees their due and we get no help from the unions, federal government, labor relations, or anyone else.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 April 2009 Hey Will Blanchetti, I hope to see you in Blacksburg this fall. Come by the south end of the stadium by RV parking (Diamond hokie lot where all REAL hokie fans are). I will be waiting for you!!! Bring Matt "THE RAT" Sanders with you. I have a couple of boys that you might know that would like to say hello. Just old alumni that would like to share a beer or two with you or BLOODY Mary's!!!!! Have a safe CSX day and hope to see you soon....:0):0):0)

Name: maverick E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 April 2009 You railroad clowns make me laugh. You think your Unions represent you? You think the Unions need your dues to exist? WRONG! The carriers pay the Unions more money per year than you will ever know...Because it is illegal! But hey, It's America....Everything is ok. You clowns think that a Union will stand up for you- when you pansies won't even stand up for yourselves. Hilarious to think about what rights and privileges you clowns have squandered over the years. Real Trainmen died to get you these Unions and you pansies disgrace the memories of the real trainmen that built this country. You boys got no backbone, so why do you think your unions would be any different. Ask your union this: 'what have you done for me lately?' NOTHING?! And how much did it cost you last year in dues? Wake Up, Get Up, Stand Up!

Name: Chicken slack action pants E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 April 2009 You see, the position I'm in my personal life affords me the opportunity to see management in a unique way. Example: I was walking down the street one day, minding my own business and then suddenly, A pile of fresh steaming pile of dog shit, un-molested by flysĄ looked up at me and said, "You're no fucking good." See where I'm getting at? Ą A pile of fresh steaming pile of dog shit, un-molested by flys = CSX management.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 April 2009 Jax Division is so fucked up like the rest of the other divisions. Don Jones who the fuck made this guy a division manager? Seriously is he an alcoholic?? If not he's on something. Same thing here Rube, heard about Pensacola, keep your heads up high on the P&A/PD

Name: fedup E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 April 2009 Just thought I would share this tid bit about our glorious csx, I was injured on the job, payrol shorted my check the last day I worked, I called them and they acknowledged error, check earning statement and payrol deducted all towards health ins, all 117. of it, wow, heartless, no money comin in and they needed this. I hope this money pays for 1 of mikeys cigars.

Name: Chicken slack action pants E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 April 2009 The murder-suicide of the Billotti-Wood family Scholars link Wood's stressful work situation as an employee for CSX Railroad http://www.gazette.net/stories/04232009/urbanew172707_32531.shtml

Name: turtlehead E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 April 2009 I heard that same shit, Rube. Hell, I heard more like 3 years or even turning P'cola into a Flomerton. You boys in the JAX division are getting the root buried all up in your guts. Stay strong, brothers. Remember May 1rst! " We must all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately!" Make May 1rst a day to spend at home with your families. Take one day out of your busy life and do not even think about CSX or working. I wonder how many brothers will do that? I never met a bunch of men that talked so much shit, but bowed down like little bitches. And you oldheads are the worst ones- ya'll need testosterone injections cause ya'll done sold your souls so many times you cannot hardly consider yourselves men anymore. I'm just Sayin'

Name: Rube E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 April 2009 They been talkin' 'bout shuttin' down the P&A/PD for awhile now. I heard Tommy got a bonus for reducing the manpower there in Pensacola. Furloughs = brownie points with management. Melvin said they gonna run everthing off extra boards in May. and they gonna furlough about 10-20 more people there. So, look out Mobile! Them boys is coming and if you ain't got 6-7 years seniority= welcome to furlough city or New Orleans. I'd rather be furloughed than live in that shit hole! Good Luck and Hope it don't last 2 more years like they been sayin'.

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 April 2009 hey guys i dont know who zorro or nomo are but im joe not a ghost account controlled by another member so there

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 April 2009 BOB FRULLA FOURLOUGHING AGAIN IN ERWIN AND AROUND THE HUNTINGTON DEVISION. FUNNY MR FRULLA HOW LAST TIME YOU CUTT EVERYONE HERE OFF YOU HAD CREW CALLERS CALLING ME TELLING ME YOU HAD TRAINS TIED DOWN EVERYWHERE WHITH NO ONE TO MOVE THEM. YOU COULD NOT FILL YOUR REGULAR ASSIGNMENTS, YOU DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH MAN POWER TO RUN THE ERWIN AREA AND IM SURE THE REST OF THE HUNTINGTON DEVISION THEN YOU CALL US BACK AND HAS TROUBLE GETTING PEOPLE TO MARK BACK UP BE FOR SURE MR FRULLA THAT THIS TIME WHEN YOU HAVE TRAINS SITTING AND JOBS ARE UNFILLED AND YOU HAVE TO CUT THE FOURLOUGH BOARD THAT YOULL BE WITHOUT THE MANPOWER BECAUSE NO ONE HERE IS MARKING UP UNTIL THE VERY LAST MINUTE THEY HAVE TO OR EVEN LONGER IT HAS DONE BEEN DISSCUSSED. TREAT US LIKE WE ARE NOTHING THATS WHAT YOULL GET IN RETURN. EVERYTIME YOU FOURLOUGH MONTH ON AND MONTH OFF WITH NO NOTICE YOU JUST CAUSE PEOPLE TO HATE THIS COMPANY MORE. fOR THE OLD HEADS WHO ARE RACKING A NICE 4,000-5,000-6,000 OR MORE CHECK EVERY HALF WITH 50 GUYS CUTT BACK REMEMEBER THAT YOUR FUCKING US UP THE ASS AS MUCH AS MR FRULLA IS. IF EVERYONE WOULD TAKE A FUCKING DAY OFF EVERY HALF IT WOULD SURELY HELP EVERYONE OUT. AND BEFORE YOU RESPOND TO THIS DONT GIVE ME THAT FUCKING IVE BEEN THERE AND I DIDNT GO OUT AND GET IN DEPHT FUNNY TO ME THAT THE RAILROADS GOT YOUR NUTS RIGHT BEFORE YOU RETIRE BECAUSE YOUR FUCKING SOAKING IN LOADS OF FUCKING DEPHT!

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 April 2009 Thanks to all the Brothers who have responded in a responsible and constructive way to the Union problem. Guys, if possible, please post your Union membership contact information lists on this site. Thank you.

Name: Sam E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 April 2009 Here is what our Company-Sponsored Unions have to say about Railroad rank and file (read Company-Sponsored posts by Loco30+ - the Company-Boot Stomping Union Man - see for yourself how the Unions think, and what kind of union "representation" we have....): The Railroad rank and file have no power. The rank and file likes to get screwed – so we (the Company sponsored unions) help the company put the screws to you. Railroad workers have no hope. Railroad workers have no rights. Railroad workers can’t strike. Railroad workers can’t take a sick day off. Railroad workers can’t get a funeral day off. Railroad workers who get hurt, get punished. Railroad workers must work in ultra-hazardous conditions without adequate safety protection. Railroad workers don’t like progressive unions. Continuous uninterruped employment for railroad workers will NEVER happen. Railroad workers who want continuous employment are Communists. Railroad workers can only hope to live in Company homes and live on Company coupons. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech does not apply to railroad workers. Railroad workers don't care what happens to them or their families. Railroad workers want bad union representation. Railroad workers want Unions to give away all their rights. Organizing a new, better, pro-active, assertive and competent Union is a "pipe dream". Anyone who trys to improve work conditions for the railroad rank and file is mentally ill. Developing a new Union is Bad - too many pro-worker ideas. Railroad workers like to take it in the ass. The Company sponsored Unions have all the answers - the rest of us are dumb asses. And on and on it goes. The ONLY possible answer to this assinine bubble-headed nazi boot stomping regime is to DE-CERTIFY THE OLD UNIONS, UNITE RAILROAD WORKERS UNDER ONE UNION, ELECT COMPETENT OFFICIALS THAT KNOW HOW TO REPRESENT RANK AND FILE - AND PRODUCE POSITIVE RESULTS! Read the prior post on how to De-Certify the Railroad Unions, which is stated in the post on the Railway Labor Act (thanks to Larry for the positive input!) . Add to the goals set forth in the new Union Platform. POST YOUR SUGGESTIONS.

Name: Somebody who cares E-mail: Congrats CSX@fu.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 April 2009 http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/04/christopher-wood-33-kills-his-wife.html Sad part was you never heard of this guy on the news working for CSX!!! How much did you pay them Michael Ward. I am challenging you personally!!! Are you going to step up and not hide behind Steve Ingram for once?? Oh no, that would mean you being a man!!!!! Heavin for bid if that situation ever came up!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 April 2009 Buddy, You really shouldn't advertise someones ID # on here and make accusations that are not true. Especially on a man that is good to be around. If you are going to make accusations like that, make them about a guy in Baltimore named Matt "The Rat" Sanders who turns on his employees because he THINKS he is promised a officer job!! He is also a young dumbass who has no sense and has no clue what he is getting into according to friend of mine out there in Maryland. I was out there last week. NOBODY talks to this idiot!!! Look up his ID (and people like him) and post his ID number, NOT MR. Salzaar (or however you speel it). If you all are ever out there in MD and see someone driving around in a blue puerto rican mobile, you know who it is.

Name: average jo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 April 2009 oh yeah one more thing THATS RIGHT ON EVERY FORUM LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 April 2009 guys im sorry for my post im still drunk to all you guys out there on furloughed status im am truly sorry i am a family man myself and since tencare just dropped my one year old daughter becuase my last name isnt henadez or brown i can feel your pain bieng the man of the house isnt easy and im just here to say i dont mean to come off abrasive in my post and im sure a railroader will condem me for posting on something i have no time in with i would just like to say you guys rock and me bieng on the outside trying to get in for so long im kinda jealous if you cant tell by my previous posts goodby note like all of you that put up with there shit you do it for your family not for your health or love of the job i have worked several places where company moral was low the only thing that kept me from quitting where my brothers in need of experinced help and my loyalty to them not the compay that we all got screwed by which at the time was well i wont say in case my case worker at csk is readin this post and that would id me to them, i hope all you guys get called back to work and then maybe ill get my call to come learn from you guys and have the chance to be furloughed you know deep down i think its sad to want a job you know that once you get hired you will be trained and immediatly be layed off but hell im married so apperantly im a glutton for punishment lol im just some guy trying to do what is best for his family with what i have to work with so guys maybe i will be a railroader one of these days if i am i will be proud to say it was to my own accomplishment and that is all so guys heres another drunk post by me joe have a safe motherfuckin day joe

Name: avearge joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 April 2009 So yes CSX does suck it sucks big hairy monkey balls i got a job in tn in november i want to say so i email my case worker and they tell me that since they already have so many conductors furloughed that it would be prudent for me to seek employment elswhere in the company i thought that the only reason i was getting a job was becuase of the new HOS law since my dad nor anyone im related to works for csx and i was never in the military for those guys who where in the coast gaurd lol and got military prefarence. So all these big plans of making decent money in ten years from now when i no longer would have to worry about bieng furloughed for the moment are gone im an electrician right now and doing good considering the econemy and all and to all those working for the company it may suck but know that finacially those who are working at least in tn have it alot better than most right now You know i think its funny i have done alot of contract work for csk ns and up the guy i did it with his son graduated from conductor school before he turned 18 and then i had to listed to him tell me how he couldnt help me get a job. yeah right is all i got to say to all of you who dont reply fuck you have a fucking safe motherfucking day average joe ps im drunk so can i be an engineer no really i am drunk right now so sorry for my bulligernce!!!!

Name: George E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 19 April 2009 UNION DE-CERTIFICATION: I agree with Sam and the retired Conductor of 30+ years. Lloyd has many good points on this subject as well. There are a great number of old heads from all the crafts that I have spoken with who agree. We have been around a very long time and have seen the changes for the worse. We all agree that unless something drastic is done to reverse the decline of the railroad union, railroad workers in all trades will suffer severe consequences in the very near future. Over the last few decades, beginning with the 60s and 70s, stretching forward to the 21st century, the present Railroad Unions have gone to the bargaining table again and again and come away empty handed on all the major issues. We have seen our wages, benefits and rights eroded to the point of utter humiliation. The reality is this: our current Railroad labor unions are outdated in their planning and policy - they are out-classed by the Carriers, and they have become completely marginalized and totally in-effective when it comes to the big policy issues that have huge affects on our lives. Meanwhile the CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, Santa Fe Burlington Northern -and now the Canadian National- are eating our lunch at the bargaining table. While our Unions have been floundering, the Railroad Companies are hard at work making plans to “rightsize” us at every step – greasing the political machinery 24/7 and bagging the breaks they need to get a huge leg up on legislation such as Railroad Retirement, FELA, Hours of Service Act, and the next round of bargaining. If history is any indication, we don't stand a chance against the large Carriers with the current Union administration. Even as recently as the last Bush adminstration, we had to stand by and watch while the Union helplessly signed away our right to strike. Now is the time to make a change. Now is the time Railroad workers can make progress. We have a new democratic administration at the helm of our national political process. We have a huge window of opportunity to better our work lives and make enormous progress for ourselves for the first time in years. However, our Unions have remained passive in the face of great opportunities. They apparently are happy with the way things are - and apparently are ok with watching the opportunities for a potential turn-around for railroad labor unions - the best time in the last quarter of a century - be lost forever. Is this the way you want your Union to represent you? Employees who no longer want a particular union to represent them — whether it's because the union is undemocratic, corrupt, violent, OR just plain inept — are entitled to seek an election to determine if a majority of their coworkers wants to drop the union. Such elections are known as "decertification elections." They are not rare -- several hundred take place in a typical year. Employees who want to vote a union out have to circulate a petition calling for a decertification election. Here is what a sample petition looks like: ********************************************************************* Petition for Decertification (RD)— Removal of Representative The undersigned employees of ____________________________________ (employer name) do not want to be represented by ____________________________________ (union name). Should the undersigned employees make up 30% or more (and less than 50%) of the bargaining unit represented by____________________________________ (union name), the undersigned employees hereby petition to hold a decertification election to determine whether a majority of employees no longer wish to be represented by this union. Should the undersigned employees make up 50% or more of the bargaining unit represented by ____________________________________ (union name), the undersigned employees hereby request that ___________________________________ (employer name) withdraw recognition from this union immediately, as it does not enjoy the support of a majority of employees in the bargaining unit. SIGNATURE NAME DATE (PRINT) ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________. There has been a lot of discussion on these boards of late about de-certification of the current unions, and replacing them with new unions and new leadership. I think this deserves some very serious discussion AND some very deliberate action. Thank you, -Brother George

Name: Jimbo1 E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 April 2009 You guys suck. You guys are big losers. You guys have no lives making fun of a good railroad like CSX. CSX is actually a decent railroad, and sure, it has its faults and mess-ups, but give them a break! All railroads have their faults/mess-ups! Nobody is perfect! They are a relatively good railroad! Also, for all of you railfans, I'm sure that most railfans hate seeing rail lines get abandoned, right? CSX doesn't abandon lines much. The worst railroad when it comes to abandoning lines is Union Pacific, who abandons way more lines than most railroads. They also have way more accidents than CSX. You can't blame CSX for hitting cars/trucks at railroad crossings, either! You guys are so retarded! Most trains need at least a mile to stop, so how are they going to stop when some idiot driver decides to be a moron! They can't help if the driver is stupid enough to race a train! 10 minutes saved is not worth risking your life over! Trains very very rarely waste any more time than 10 minutes. Is 10 minutes worth risking your life over? No! This is very stupid! Also, look both ways before crossing railroad crossings! Also, every company has its share of bad employees, so you can't just go around bugging CSX because they have SOME bad employees. Like I said, no company is perfect! If you are going to make fun of any railroad, make fun of Union Pacific. UP sucks, their service is very slow (the trains usually only go like 2 miles per hour or something like that that is really slow), They abandon lines all of the time (that's very loser-ish for a railroad to do), and they hardly ever even run trains on their lines! Like, there is one line that I live near where there are only 3 or 4 trains a day! So, if you are going to ridicule any railroad, you should at least do it to a railroad that REALLY DOES SUCK, LIKE UNION PACIFIC! IT SUCKS!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 18 April 2009 Danny Cunningham I've research the BLET SSA for CSX looking for a provision that states you forfieted the PBP when resigning. Nowhere did I find anything related to your circumstance. I do know a friend that became a RFE last year and did get his bonus for 2008. I do know that in a resignation you forfiet your rights to all claims. I don't consider the PBP as a claim as it is a form of pay increase which you should be entitled. I wish you luck in persuing this matter.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 April 2009 From what I read it just looks like he wants the money CSX owes him.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years Posted: 17 April 2009 I remember Danny Cunningham very well. Always thought he knew more than anyone. Looks like he wants to pick up his marbles and go play somewhere else, again. Some guys never change.

Name: Danny Cunningham E-mail: chinkaqroo@hotmail.com Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 April 2009 I came to this web site to share my story,and what did I get,insulted. Yes, I had 31 years with the CSX, and yes I got a much better deal at the CN. If the stories on this site doesn't explain why a employee would change employers, I don't know what would. Write what you will, I'll not be back.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 April 2009 Mr Cunningham, If you really have over 30 with CSX, you are a moron. When you move to any job you leave of your own free will. I know what you thought, the bonus cash would come your way, and now it has not. Keep working with the union, they will surely help you out??? You moved for a better deal, hope ya got what ya wanted, cause it is time to live with it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 April 2009 I HAVE A FRIEND WORKED 23 YEARS FOR FEC,THINK ITS A PART OF CXS? HE WAS A TRACKMAM/BRIDGEMAN. JOB ABOLISHED SHOULD OF BEEN ALLOWED TO ROLL A 6 YEAR PERSON ITS A RULE BUT WAS DENIED BECAUSE THE NEW MANAGEMENT DIDN,T WANT TO RESPECT THE RULE. UNION DID NOTHING ALLOWED HIM TO BE PUT OUT! sOMETHING SIMILAR HAPPEN YEARS AGO AND IT WAS REVERSED. tHIS BIG SHOT SAYS THIS IS THE WAY HE IS GOING TO DO IT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Name: Danny Cunningham E-mail: chinkaroo@hotmail.com Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 April 2009 I left the CSX to work for the C.N. railroad in Memphis,TN. I was awaiting my final check for the engineers yearly performance payment. This was in lieu of a yearly pay raise. Much to my suprise this payment was declined to me and all other engineers who resigned to work for the C.N. railroad. All other engineers got their payment, even those who resigned for reasons other than mine. This matter is being handled by the labor union as I type this message. I keep getting letters from the CSX asking me to give them proxy over my stock, want to guess what I do with them. Danny

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 April 2009 I think CSX has many ways of reducing thier workforce...especially when it comes to women. I paid for my "choo choo school" completed my probation period then discovered I was pregnant. I worked until I was almost due(even though they wanted me to go sooner) then took my maternity leave.Mind you when I called to mark off for this the caller had no idea how or what to do LOL after awhile of being on hold and talking to his supervisors we got it straight.I was never tol any specifics about maternity leave from the company or my union rep...I was nursing and not in a hurry to return to work but loved my job(something I cannot say about any other previous employment) I didnt hear from the company or union rep regarding my return so I figured it was due to business being slow etc.A year after I went on maternity leave I recieved a registered letter from CSX stating that within 30 days,they wanted a form filled out from the doctor that "i was under the care of" if I wanted to return to work or I could just sign off my seiority rights and stay off work.(still hadnt heard from my union rep, even though I left messages)I sent csx the form filled out stating I was able and willing to return to work in the alotted time only to recieve a letter from them stating I had given up my senority rights and nothing regarding my return to work!!! Again I called my union rep and never heard back....I was so frustrated that there was nothing I could do to get back my job.Mind you I was still paying off my tuition for a job that I could even return to!!!Needless to say I dont think very highly of CSX or the union.As the saying goes CSX SUCKS

Name: spongebob E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 April 2009 Hey there Loco. Eng. 30+ I'm sure there are lots of folks at Avon that are'nt aware of Mr. Salazar's sick behavior that has resulted in him being convicted of being a pediofile. I know for a fact (public court records-online) that there is a lot of employees at Avon that have been convicted of some pretty serious crimes but I don't really give a shit. The reason I mention Mr. Salazar is when someone molest children this goes into a whole other realm of crime. I do realize Mr. Salazar won't be bending any employees over the control stand any time soon, and we as CSX employees are'nt in danger of being molested. But I also realize that CSX occasionally has family cookouts and other events that involve our children, and he should be watched. I'm also sure we are smart enough to not harrass Mr. Salazar at work about this issue as it could result in discipline. Regardless, of what you or any body else thinks, if this posting of information prevents 1 child from being molested in the future it was worth it. By the way, his I.D. # was obtained by looking at the vacation roster, so it is not confidential info. everyone at work has access to other employees names and I.D. #'s.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 April 2009 I'm not sure I can agree with posting someones name & company ID on this site. I'm not going to check his offenses on the registry for sexual offenders which I'm sure others will. I don't plan on visiting Indiana anytime in the near future or if ever. This should of been kept locally this can open up a can of worms on this site.

Name: spongebob E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 April 2009 ATTN: Avon employees Francisco S. Salazar I.D.#574149 a CSX employee at AVON yard currently working the IN-IE side is a convicted pediofile. I am not making this up or passing along a rumor. Please visit www.insor.org INSOR stands for, Indiana Sexual Offender Registry Once you log onto the web site go to the middle of the page to City Search and go to Avon. Once there, a map wiil appear with lots of square boxes, select the appropriate box where CSX is located and you will see a picture of F.S. Salazar along with what he has been convicted of.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 April 2009 Amazing how management insists no cut backs or yard closings are in the future....Then the very next day (today April 14, 2009) they come in and announce that 50% YES FIFTY percent of the workforce is being laidoff effective June 1,2009...Goes to show you that Management can never be trusted!!!!!

Name: President, CSX E-mail: CSXexecutive.com Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 13 April 2009 Attention CSX Employees: Effectively immediately, all CSX union members will receive a $1 million dollar stock bonus (CSX Common Stock, par $25 value). To qualify, you must be a certified union member as of April 12, 2009. Your checks have been processed and will be mailed to you tomarrow, April 13, 2009. Recipients are responsible for payment of all social security and income tax payments. Furthermore, all employess with 30 or more years of active service will be entitled to double indemnity payments under amended RR Retirement Act of 2009. Retirees will receive a 2009 Mercedes Benz SX9100 from CSX for your retirement gift. Thank you for your dedicated service to this company. CSX is a GREAT place to work! We respect out workers! Thank you! Sincerely, President, CSX Transporation Company April Fool, you dumb ass! BWHAAAAahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 April 2009 You dumb bastards in payroll are the reason a lot of men don't take anymore run ups on jobs. You research and deny a legitimate claim for difference in pay.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 April 2009 HELLO, TO EVERY ONE. I WAS WONDERING IF ANY ONE CAN SHARE SOME LIGHT ON THE COAL YARD IN VIRGINIA NEWPORT NEWS, AND IF ANY ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT DOMINION TERMINAL ASSCOCIATES. I AM NOT SURE WHAT THEY DO IN DETAIL AND THEIR JOB POSITIONS OR IF IT IS CSX THE ONES THAT OPRATE THE YARD, WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT I SEE CSX COAL TRAIN IN NEWPORT NEWS VIRGINIA. PLEASE ANY INFO WILL BE GRATELY APRECIATED, THANK'S TO ALL.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 April 2009 Who the ---- is Judy Curtis?

Name: Retired Director E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 11 April 2009 First of all I would like to start by saying... to all you assholes who want to blame payroll for screwing your checks.. Maybe you should make sure your claims are accurate and truthful, which sadly, 70% of the time they are fraudulent. In regard to the comment directed towards Fmr. Director-LR Judy Curtis... honestly you can fuck off and die. I can understand your envy of her as she is one of the most powerful people in Labor Relations and the Company in general. Im very sorry you did not have the talent or intelligence to make it to her level or make the money she does... but then again She is WAY above your league... which is why she is in the position she is in... Is there any other Directors that report directly to the SVP-HR and LR? Nope only Judy! She deserves her name to be listed at the top of her level with Pam Overbay and Sandi Cooksey right there with her. Finally, you want her kids to eat out of a dumpster... For your info.. WE are doing Wonderful and have and do anything we want! So go play in traffic and maybe you will feel better about yourself because your a nobody and Judy is a made woman, comparable to Lisa Mancini, Ellen Fitzsimmons, Alison Brown, and Susan Hamilton! THANK YOU CSX FOR THE WONDERFUL LIFE YOU HAVE PROVIDED US WITH!!!!! Webmaster comment: There you have it, straight from Jacksonville FL. As long as management is not drawn from the ranks of anyone with a clue, it's easy to divide but not so easy to conquer when both sides shit on each other. A modern company might try to have productive dialog between the contract employees and management, but CSX would rather continue the beatings until morale improves: Nobody wins, not the employees; not management; not stockholders. I'm glad I got out alive because this place continues sinking to new depths.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 April 2009 HELLO, TO EVERY ONE. I WAS WONDERING IF ANY ONE CAN SHARE SOME LIGHT ON THE COAL YARD IN VIRGINIA NEWPORT NEWS, AND IF ANY ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT DOMINION TERMINAL ASSCOCIATES. I AM NOT SURE WHAT THEY DO IN DETAIL AND THEIR JOB POSITIONS OR IF IT IS CSX THE ONES THAT OPRATE THE YARD, WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT I SEE CSX COAL TRAIN IN NEWPORT NEWS VIRGINIA. PLEASE ANY INFO WILL BE GRATELY APRECIATED, THANK'S TO ALL.

Name: RETIRED E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 10 April 2009 mY INSURANCE WAS ALSO AROUND $300.00 A MONTH UNTIL THE MONTH I TURN 65 YEARS OLD THEN IT TRIPLED.YOU MUST NOT BE 65YEARS OLD YET WHEN YOU DO LOOK OUT FOR A BIG INCREASE IN PAYMENT OR ELSE NO INSURANCE.c s x PAYS UNTIL YOU REACH 65 THEN THEY QUIT PAYING ANYTHING.WHEN YOU TURN 65 THE R.R. AND THE UNION FORGET ABOUT YOU ALL TOGETHER.i WAS NOT EVEN COVERED THE MONTH I TURN 65 BUT THE MONTH BEFORE.hOPE YOU HAVE BETTER LUCK THAN I DO WITH YOUR INSURANCE.I AM STILL ENJOYING MY RETIREMENT AND NOT HAVING TO PUT UP WITH ALL THE CRAP THIS COMPANY IS HANDING OUT TO THE WORKING EMPLOYEES NOW.I dO NOT THINK i WOULD LAST LONG WITH ALL THEIR SHITTY RULES.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 April 2009 does anyone have any info about when furlough men are going to be called back to hamlet

Name: retired and loving it E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 10 April 2009 To Retired, When your wife reaches 60 you will hit the $ 60,000 mark. Her check will be about $1,660. As for paying $768 per month to Unitedhealthcare, you are doing something wrong. I pay $300 per month for my spouse and myself. I would check into this if I were you. Mine is for plan E-23111. Anyways once your wife hits 60 your annual retirement will be around $64,800 before federal taxes. I would call Unitedhealthcare and find out why your payment is so high.

Name: Sherlock E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 08 April 2009 The Dave Nelson Story - CSX Whistleblower Wednesday, April 08, 2009 CHANGING OF THE GUARD Bush nominee accused of cover-up Whistleblower says transportation secretary pick should be probed WorldNetDaily.com Mary Peters President Bush's nominee for secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters, should be investigated for shutting down a probe of CSX Transportation into wrongful deaths in crossing accidents and overcharges, contends a whistleblower who worked for the railroad company. Peters, who was head of the Federal Highway Administration at the time of the rail probe, is "another Bush cover-up artist," asserts Dave Nelson. The White House declined to comment on the allegation. Nelson received a $1.18 million payment after filing a false claims action against CSX, alleging the company was overcharging the Federal Highway Administration for railroad crossing equipment upgrades that were never made or were not made as specified. After Nelson's action, CSX agreed to pay the Justice Department nearly $6 million, admitting Nelson's allegations were correct. As recently as 2004, CSX paid a $1 million fine to the state of New York to settle Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's investigation into CSXT responsibility regarding railroad crossing accidents that resulted in fatalities in the state. Nelson told WND that even today, CSX is continuing to overcharge the Federal Highway Administration, or FHWA, for railroad crossing equipment upgrades and that railroad crossing accidents are still resulting in deaths that could have been avoided. While Peters was head of the FHWA, a criminal investigation was begun by the U.S. Department of Transportation in its Office of Inspector General. "I was providing information to that DOT criminal investigation," Nelson said. "The Justice Department closed both the criminal and civil investigation ongoing in DOT after the FHWA told DOJ that the FHWA did not care about CSX overcharges involving railroad crossing equipment.” Nelson further told CSX that the order to close the Department of Transportation investigations involved John Snow, the former secretary of Treasury in the Bush administration. Nelson alleged to WND that Snow's nomination to head Treasury was the reason Peters told the Justice Department the overcharges in the CSX investigation did not merit further investigation. Nelson said his attorney sent him an e-mail after Justice closed the CSX investigations and told him specifically the statement of the FHWA was the key reason the investigations were closed. "The Bush administration did not want the embarrassment of criminal and civil investigations being brought against CSX for activities when John Snow was CEO of CSX occurring when Snow was being nominated to be the secretary of Treasury," Nelson said. "I believe even today that Mary Peters was doing what she was told to do by the White House, namely to close the CSX investigation even if the charges were true." Nelson alleged to WND that wrongful deaths are continuing to happen due to CSX's faulty, inadequate or outdated railroad crossing equipment. "I invite the attorneys of any family seeking redress from a death involving a railroad crossing accident to contact me," he said. "In many cases, the death involves what amounts to negligent homicide and the board and executives of a railroad like CSX should be held responsible if effective civil and criminal actions are filed." Nelson said he also believes Peters should be investigated and possibly indicted because the decision by the FHWA to shut down the CSX investigation at the time Snow was nominated was an action that "doomed many innocent U.S. citizens, including women and children, to railroad crossing accidents the FHWA and DOT knew were caused by CSX fraud and negligence. … " Nelson estimates that in the last five years CSX overcharges to FHWA regarding railroad crossing equipment probably still amount to some $100 million. "This $100 million in overcharges gives CSX a more-than-ample war chest from which to hand out $1 million here and there to the Eliot Spitzers of the world and the various families who have the courage to sue when their family members are killed by CSX negligence regarding railroad crossings," Nelson said. Peters served as Federal Highway Administrator from Oct. 2, 2001 to July 29, 2005. Snow was sworn in as secretary of Treasury on Feb. 7, 2003. He was elected CEO of CSX July 11, 1989. The Senate Commerce Committee has announced nomination hearings for Peters will begin Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Inside information supplied by Nelson prompted and advanced a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by New York Times reporter Walt Bogdanich, called "Death on the Tracks." The stories reported railroad company cover-ups regarding faulty equipment and false reports concerning fatal accidents at railroad crossings.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 April 2009 I have to go take a Terry Turner (a.k.a- Bowel Movement) I will be right back. Then I will wipe my butt cheeks with my CSX approved, Matt Sanders toilet paper (he likes to kiss ass anyway)

Name: Buck Nasty E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 April 2009 Bend over and grab your ankles Selkirk...rumor is that junior is coming back to town!

Name: retired E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 04 April 2009 to the post on wanting people to retire. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW JUST ONE PERSON DRAWING $60,000.00 A YEAR SINCE MY CHECK IS $3800.00 A MONTH AND THIS YEAR I HAVE TO PAY IN $2,000.00 federal tax for 2008. I am also 65 years of age and my wife is 6 years younger her insurance is $768.00 a month with United health.even with all this I am glad to be retired but I for one can understand why some people works past 60 years of age. in my r.r.career i never once saw the r.r. add a person to the extra board or put someone back to work when they had people cut off when a person retired.this r.r. over hired and that is all there is to it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 30+ years Posted: 04 April 2009 SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The Government takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away... TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide. A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them. A CHINESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers. AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them. AND FINALLY: AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead. SOUND FAMILIAR????

Name: Yardman E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 04 April 2009 Corporate 1-10, Living proof CSX blatantly practices age discrimination against older railroad workers. Fire the old guys, hire the new guys. Trade experienced professionals for green horns = CSX Stupidity. Bite Me you little weasel.

Name: RETIRE E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 April 2009 I have a question for all the old heads still working for free. Why does a man work for 75,000yr and can sit at home for 60,000yr? Let's do the math that's working for 15,000yr @75 hours a week.HUUUMMMM!!!!Don't you think it's time to RETIRE, now who's keeping men cut off.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 April 2009 Quanne, You are a bigot and a racist. You should be fired. You are a corporate plant making racist statements on this site to bait the rank and file. Does CSX Management have no shame?

Name: Philipe Quann E-mail: Ilovechocos@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 March 2009 "Looks like Obama is pickin up the Economy pretty fast. CSX just called back 10 guys on the Baltimore Division. HOORAY!! There is light at the end of the tunnel!!" Hell, they never called me back. I guess I need to start eating chicken and watermelon and get some dreadlocks!! Who knows, I might get a call. Either that or date mexicans and start walking around the yards to see what I can't make remote control. Oh yeah, and drive a blue puerto rican car!!! But I need to go at this time. Jason Brandt's hemroid is acting up so I need to go wipe some cream on it for him. Stay safe, The only red head idiot in baltimore

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 March 2009 Denied claims? YOu dont say. the RR hates claims. They hate workers who get hurt - first thing eveyuone does it get their favorite lawyer. No one want to get screwed over. Cant trust what the RR will do - usually short change you. Best thing is, dont get hurt. If you do get hurt, you wil get punished.

Name: JJ E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 March 2009 Tacoman. Was that loaf you pinched half baked or extra crispy? hahahahahahahaahahaha

Name: TacoMan E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 March 2009 feels good to pinch a loaf in J'ville's Executive gold plated crapper. Layed one yesterday, looked down, an there was Ken Peifer starin back. Scared hell outa me. Took maintenance all day ta plunge that sucker down the shit hole.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 March 2009 I will be right back, I have to go take a bowel movement on the assistant Superintendants desk in Baltimore. Then calculate how long it takes for Matt Sanders to come in and volunteer to clean it up.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 March 2009 How many of us guys got injured cause we had to fix a FAILED COUPLING? CSX is 100% liable. Copy this link for the rest of the story: http://www.hoeyfarina.com/HFD5/ST268_newsletter.htm

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 20 March 2009 to BILL the smart as so call trainmaster. I think you are not a trainmaster for no claims is either paid or denied by no stamp any more you probably donot even work for the r.r. or you would know better but as dumb as your are that would probably make a good one for C S X.with todays work force C S X is mostly trying to run someone off not turn down claims for we have very little claims to make our good unions is the one too blame . I WONDER WHO GENERAL CHAIRMAN HANCOCK HAS WORKING FOR HIM SINSE VANHORNE AT FITZGERALD GA RETIRED WHO STOLE THOUSAND OF DOLLARS FROM THE YOUNG CONDUCTORS AND GOT TO KEEP IT ALL.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 19 March 2009 "Accountability at CSX is akin to virginity in a whorehouse." An the whores will gladly stab and bang you - till your eyes explode, and the knife wounds in your chest drain every drop of blood from your body.

Name: Bill E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 March 2009 I have a giant ink stamp on my desk - it says "CLAIM DENIED" in BIG black letters. I use it on dead beats. Right on the ass. POW. Then I kick em out the door with my big black steel toe boot. BAM. Loosers.

Name: Why Try E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 March 2009 You know that I'm fairly new to this site and I can tell you in my short career with the railroad that I've never heard so much whining in my life from old and young people. Everyone says that this place is so bad to work for, then why is everyone still here? It's not for your health or looks. It is for the money and insurance. Money is the American way and you all know this. You can't tell me that right know in the shape that our economy is in that you could go and start over again with your careers and make just as much money or even more some where else. The railroad is not that bad of a career. There is negatives and positives with every job out there. Some are just more noticed than others. I know that I come off being rude but I'm just telling my personal view. I'm tired off coming to this site and hearing about oldheads and lemon heads arguing everyday. Let's look at the real points at hand right now. Both unions need to come to some type of agreement with each other and help out all of there employees. Will this ever happen, probably not. A great amount of our fellow employees are furloghed right now of course including myself and none of us know if we will ever have a career again. I don't want no one's sympathy but give me a break with all the bullshit. Once again oldhead and lemonhead, should band together as one and try to prevent the company from stealing everything from us. Oh and by the way everyone also says that the union's (UTU and BLE) have something to do with all of this! They may play a small part, but wake up and smell the roses people, the economy is falling to shambles. If 10 million people are unemployed and car makers are shut down, steel factories slow, and most of the commodity's that we haul are laying off and closing up shop then we are all going to feel the trickle effect. Get all the facts together and really take a good look. I guess that the people with good senerioty and decent jobs right know that are making good money are still never happy and always bitching. I guess that 40,000.00 to 100,000.00 salary ranges for these people are not good enough. I know that the 610.00 that I get every two weeks is pretty depressing, but at least I can take care somewhat of my family. YOU ALL NEED TO GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 March 2009 If You read through the post you notice that there is alot of old head vs. lemon head bashing and vice versa. When will everyone realize that things have gotten the way they are because we have allowed it. No one stands up for each other, looks after each other, or cares about each other. In order to strengthen the unions we have to come together as one voice. Ble Utu must unite Road and yard must unite old head and lemon heads must unite. United as one we cannot be screwed, harrased, or denied claims yes the unions are weak but we can make them strong. yes some of you may lose some money or get some time out in the street but if we unite things will get better and we will all make more than we lose if we all work for the same goals.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 March 2009 My question is simply this. Why are fellow brothers and sisters talking bad about one another on this site (oldhead or lemon head, BLE/UTU) and not about the company?? The company started all of this (let alone trader union reps FROM BOTH BLE & UTU who gambled a couple of golf/poker games). Get mad at them. I say send the SOB's to jail!!! STRIKE!!! Let them suffer for once. Seriousley, that is the only way to get attention. It has for every other union (which, when they do strike, get what they want). HHHEEELLLOO?????? It isn't like your union reps are doing a whole lot (considering why this site exists). Put your union dues where it belongs or to who deserves it (still to be determined).

Name: The Song Remains the Same E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 March 2009 Look out major hump yards on the CSX system, you may be next. In the coming weeks, the company is following through with another great idea from the ivory tower. That's right. In Selkirk, the hump panel conductor's job duties are being abolished and being reassigned to...the hump yardmaster! Several years ago, they upgraded the hump computer system and tore down the retarder tower. The computer handled a portion of the retarder operator's duties, while the rest of the work was reassigned to the hump panel conductor. Now this job is being eliminated. Let's see. Job duties that have been performed by trainmen for decades are now being given to a yardmaster. Sounds like crossing crafts, doesn't it? Will this be a strikeable offense? Stay tuned. This company couldn't run a Lionel Train set around a Christmas Tree.

Name: DOUSCH BAG E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 March 2009 See how you guys are,Just keep selling yourself's out day by day that's what the railroad loves.Too faced back stabberes like you.Worried about your fucking stock.Your the first 1's under the desk when shit hits the fan. Doing personal favors CHOOO CHOOO SELL OUTS "and allways rember your senorty and your hard times, thats sell out #2"

Name: Lloyd Christmas E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 March 2009 Okay Jimbo, after reading your nonsense on every single category on these message boards I have this urge to reply to you personally. If you do not even work for CSX "as you clearly state your are friend or family na" then how the fuck do you know what kind of company CSX is? Actually you are probably just posting under this name instead of a previous posters name who bad mouthed employees who complain on this site. Fact is douche bag, unless you have had employment with this company no one really gives a shit what you think or really cares. I mean how can a guy take up for a company like CSX unless he has had previous employment with them or works for them now? Now go swallow some Michael Ward and Tony Ingram man gravy and never come back to this site again...ever.

Name: Jimbo1 E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 March 2009 You know what? You guys are losers. CSX is awesome, and I think that you are losers if you are going to criticize such an awesome railroad company. If you are going to make fun of any railroad, you should make fun of Union Pacific, because UP sucks. Don't be saying crap about CSX you losers. Say it about UP.

Name: Sick of it all E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2009 After being away from train and engine service for the last few years, I cannot believe what I have returned to. Senior engineers, many close to retirement, forced out onto the road to continue working. Employees with under three years holding regular yard jobs. Guys set back to train service who have been engineers for the last 6 or 8 years. Both unions bashing each other over the remotes and jobs that were cut or eliminated. WTF!!! It is surreal. At this point I have no interest in working the road. It is a moot point getting requalified as an engineer as I’d be set back immediately. I am not qualified on any of the yard jobs as a conductor as they are all remote, and I am not sure that I want to get qualified. Seems to me that both unions got screwed royally over the whole thing. The BLE lost a ton of jobs and the only thing the UTU has to show for it is a measly 46 minutes of straight time in return for doing the work of two people. Surely both unions could have negotiated something better than this? C’mon! The ability to bid back-and-forth between train and engine service? Some sort of compensation for engineers for the elimination of their jobs in yard service? Or compensation for a further reduced quality-of-life because of regularly assigned jobs lost forever. Certainly someone could have argued this! Some sort of compensation or reduced-crew penalty/lonesome pay (other than the 46 minutes) for conductors now doing the work of two. And look at all the people we have furloughed now. Who on earth thought this was a good idea!!!??? What union official(s) allowed this to happen? Both the BLE and UTU dropped the ball on this one. You screwed us both, UTU/BLE - conductors and engineers alike, pre-85 and post-85. Thanks for nothing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 February 2009 I haven't heard of any management being cut as of yet; but I hear that it is coming. They will probably be the last ones to get the axe.

Name: HoggerX E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 February 2009 Bonus- They weren't bonuses, they were advances on severance pay! "Accountability at CSX is akin to virginity in a whorehouse."

Name: bonus E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 February 2009 How many management jobs have been cut??? Stock down by half....Union contract workers cut to skeleton crews....if anyone knows any management jobs cut post here...I hear big bonuses were given for all the job cuts

Name: Tired bring the young men back E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 February 2009 In response to Bill Setser's post I have worked under 3 supers at russell terminal and you have got to be the worst. I'm not talking about e-test, boards or conduct only management. You can't get anything done in that yard anymore and it doesnt matter if your leaving with light engines or switching. The locals used to get done everyday as long as we had the signals now your on the law 5 miles out of the yard, your waiting on a pilot for the q316 cause an engineer was not rested for 3 hours. Claus was bad but at least he would listen, your all i'm the boss do it this no questions, its like you dont understand i cant move without permission from the yardmaster and you change the way the job is done everyday that means a job briefing which takes time. Things are getting bad a russell and its your job to move trains out of that terminal and if your the big answer to claus's screw up, money talks man, and two crews for to move a train 95 miles with 5 hours spent in your yard just like to two before CSX will ask you why not us.

Name: Goober E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 February 2009 old/ new Jeffy coming home from the new job, and guess what he has friday and saturday off. Hell I tought he was working friday and driving home. His free lunches are numbered. Wonder if he want's to give up the big paycheck that goes with all of those thank you's??? Bet not. GOOFY