Recalling employees that are laid-off is dependant on their respective union agreements. The Engineers union has specific language regarding lay-offs requiring employees be cut "in reverse of seniority" and recalled "in seniority order". If the UTU does not have specific language similar to the BLET, then the Railroad may not have to recall those that are cut. We are researching the Railway Labor Act and Federal labor law regarding this subject.
ADL, very nice post. All of your posts as a matter of fact, especially the one ratting out your senior brothers and sisters being AWOL. I especially enjoyed your post about you being in that uniform "long after I am dead and buried". That's great news that someone like you will be toiling away in that job while I am enjoying a fruitful and generous retirement, one by the way, you will never have like me. I will think about you as I am travelling and playing golf. Please keep working so I and others like me get paid. Thank you!
Steamboat, I read your posts on this site and realized that you don't even work for the LIRR and are maybe a "railroader" as you have styled yourself, for maybe a year, two at most. What I forgot about this business, you will probably never learn. You will spend your days collecting tickets and opening doors watching real railroad people passing you on a freight and you wishing you were just like them and yet will never be.
Mark, may I suggest that your posts are shorter so that all the hard work you put in to them are read by others and not just the first sentence or two.