It now April 5th, in Feburary when management announced the cutbacks 700 union jobs and 300 supervisor jobs were to be cut. Of course the 300 supervisors were added since October, when 800 management were to be cut then. That never happened naturally, and the 300 were added (you can never have enough). When the layoffs were announced the union asked Amtrak when were the supervisors going to go. April 1st was the answer. Here we are, now it looks like were going to get our 1.2 billion to keep running, 700 or more union members have been axed, baggage service has been cut, phones have been taken away from conductors, BUTTTTT we still have all of our managers. Of course they no longer have there pagers so their even more useless then before. Once again the people that actually do the work have been stabbed in the back. Figures....but smile...and keep those service voucher numbers low, because were all in this together. lol
Posted by Eric (Member # 674) on :
Don't they have a manager to manage the employees who are taking the pagers away?
Posted by Konstantin (Member # 18) on :
Disgusted, I really like hearing your stories from an employees perspective. Thank you for your comments. I am not being sarcstic, I am being honest. As a teacher, I could say the same types of things about our public school system in a different forum.
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Posted by Steve4031 (Member # 1517) on :
Amen, I am a teacher too. I made the same connections. If one of my supervisors worked on the railraod, I think some of you guys might have opened the dutch door and hung her from one of those old rail express hooks. Well maybe not because if you missed, she might fall under the train and delay it. We can't block the freight traffic right?
To disgusted, Hang in their. Many of us understand how hard you work at Amtrak. We respect your efforts.
Posted by disgusted (Member # 1373) on :
Believe me when I say that I realize it's like this all over. What's going on with Amtrak is nothing new.
Some info did come out today. Here's the latest. On Feburary 1, they cut 100 management jobs, what they did with these managers is have them go around to see what union jobs to cut. Now April 5th they layed off 200 more managers, what happens now is most of these managers have bumping rights back to union jobs, so if they want they can go back to were they came from. So it's possible that 200 more low seniority union will eventually be out of a job, when it's all said and done.
Posted by irishchieftain (Member # 1473) on :
How the heck did management wangle bumping rights into union jobs?!? Is that in your contract (which shouldn't cover management, nor allow them to be re-unionized in that fashion)?? You guys got skrewed big-time on whatever contract was voted in last time...
Well, things could be worse; look at the Postal Service...if you want to view "pure hell", try a job with them...
Posted by disgusted (Member # 1373) on :
As long as they kept paying their union dues while being a manager if they came from the ranks, they have bumping rights.
Posted by irishchieftain (Member # 1473) on :
That's a real permissive contract that your union stuck you with; that's not right at all. Just because you keep paying dues shouldn't guarantee seniority; that's not fair to the less-senior among the ranks. When does this contract expire? I'd recommend a strike...
Posted by disgusted (Member # 1373) on :
LOL,,,haven't had a contract for 2 years.
Your right, somewhere down the line some low seniority person will be out of a job because of the bumping.
Posted by irishchieftain (Member # 1473) on :
quote:LOL...haven't had a contract for 2 years
Sheesh, you could strike anytime then...problem is, that would get the "bumpers" in faster...
Posted by Steve4031 (Member # 1517) on :
In my teacher's union, at least the administrators have their own contrack. However, they were once teachers too, so I suspect they would could bump teachers in certain settings. However, since were short of teachers, that would be harder to do.
