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Swedish Meatball wrote:How come this is allowed for by the Unions on the property.The people who attend the school are not CSX employees. Therefore the CSX labor contracts do not apply. When they are hired by CSX after successfully completing the screening process and training regimen, they are then paid for any further training as employees.
Swedish Meatball wrote:How come this is allowed for by the Unions on the property. This had to be something that was negotiated at the bargaining table. What was given to the employees when they gave up paid training? This also seems like a good company practice because the training department has to be a skeleton crew at CSX.www.amdg.ws runs these schools. While some instructors are former CSX employees, AMDG is an entity unto itself.
SimTrains wrote:I was told by a CSX employee that the reason CSX gave up all it's hiring was to keep things on the up and up with equal employment laws and such. Should someone claim that 99% of CSX's employees are white males, and that isn't fair, then CSX can simple say....Oh well, we don't do the hiring.This is not correct. CSX still hires their employees, and is still subject to all applicable laws governing employment. AMDG takes care of the preliminary screening and training.
razor wrote:wmt,Waste of time if you will be working exclusively on CSXT lines......they through NORAC out the window Nov. 1st, 2004
You can get a copy of the NORAC rules here:
http://www.ble482.org/Norac8.pdf
-r
NASHVILLE-NEWBIE wrote: For all you guys and gals who think you have to tote a 80 lb knuckle from the engine back 4500 feet to a car let me tell you that is wrong--Of course not. Once you find the broken knuckle, you can close the angle cock at the end of the drag, have your engineer drop a new knuckle off on the side of the tracks (with a fusee so you'll know where it is) and ride the car up to the new knuckle. Then put the knuckle on the end of the car, and (with permission of the dispatcher if in signaled territory) shove back to the rest of the train......and then change the knuckle.