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Re: (erielack) Anniversary
The thing that has never really been brought out is
that all of those nice shinny blue and white
locomotives and cabooses caused a social up heaval
that ripped apart families and caused people to move
not only throught out the states serviced by Conrail
but throughout the United States just to keep a job to
take care of their families. There was a lot of
injustice associated with ConRail and how people where
treated.
Bob Stafford
- --- Smtimko_@_aol.com wrote:
> Ed and listers.........
>
> An issue that had much more lasting effects on the
> EL people than the actual
> Conrail Day 1 was the seniority issue for trainmen
> and to somewhat of a
> lesser degree, the engineers.
>
> I don't profess to be an expert on the dates or the
> actual agreement(s) but
> when Conrail started closing yards and consolidating
> terminal operations, the
> job selections went to an Order Selection list. It
> had nothing to do with
> the actual physical location of the yard, but the
> area in which it was located.
>
> For instance, the EL yard at Niles, Ohio was closed
> as was the PC (PRR) yard
> and Goodman Yard at Lordstown was the consolidated
> terminal. EL crews had
> certain picks or order of selection for certain jobs
> as did the PC crews.
>
> Brier Hill and NK Yards were closed in Youngstown,
> the PC yards at Mcguffey
> Street was closed and everything was consolidated
> into the former PC Haselton
> Yard. The consolidated terminal included the former
> EL Ferrona Yard. There
> was an order of selection for the jobs in the
> Youngstown Consolidated
> Terminal. Youngstown went something like this:
> (Don't hold me to it, but I
> believe this is correct). 1. Former EL Ferrona
> Yard, 2 Former NYC Yard, 3 Former
> EL Road, 4 Former PRR yard, 5 Former Brier Hill
> Yard. If you had the former
> (Prior Rights) seniority, you could pick a job as
> defined above.
>
> A 40 year vet of PRR could bid and be awarded job 1,
> (former EL Ferrona
> Yard), but he could be bumped off by a former EL
> Yard switchman with three years
> seniority! This resulted in very mixed feelings
> between crew members in a
> terminal, a headache for the local supervision, a
> nightmare for Labor Relations
> and a mountain of paperwork and timeslips for T&E
> Payroll verification.
> Also, it resulted in the Local Chairman not being
> able to satisfy anyone.
> Thirty years ago this month, the EL crews in
> Youngstown, Ferrona and Niles
> probably had 20 yard jobs a day and the PRR probably
> had about 8-10.
>
> Because of this order of selection process and the
> Prior Right rosters, many
> EL trainman from Brier Hill ended up working for
> years and years in such
> places as Oak Island, Altoona and New Haven. I
> don't believe that the EL guys
> ever received their original seniority date back
> until Conrail was dissolved.
>
> While the basics of the above is correct, some of
> the minor details may not
> be and I invite corrections and/or additions from
> some of the former Local
> Chairmen that are on the list.
>
> SMT
>
>
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