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Expect to hear something within days. The current mandate requires all agencies to cut 15% of their payroll. Not necessarily 15% of the workforce, but the dollar amount of payroll. Non-represented will be offered severance should they resign and represented will be cut in accordance with union contr...

The only person currently required by the FRA is the Engineer. That is because that position must be filled by an employee who meets the requirements of CFR Part 240. What would require a carrier to have a Conductor or Brakeman would be crew consist agreements and scope rules in your union contract ...

Metro-North as well as all the constituent agencies of the MTA are subject to the same budget pressures as the LIRR. Demographics are different on MN due to the age of workforce and eligibility of workers capable of retiring.

Thank you ADL for your typical response. Good luck with your 401k, considering the lack of intellect in your posts, would show how miserable your investment skills must be. Did you sit in the cab today and read a newspaper because you didn't feel like collecting? Did you deliberately rip your pants ...

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...

when they eliminate your position will you still be one of those tax payers carrying Jay Walder on your shoulders? Actually my position is filled by one person, myself, so I won't be laid-off. Unskilled, overstaffed positions such as yours will be chopped. I noticed how you talk like a real "u...

I guess the real question is what can the voters and taxpayers do to end this phenomenon of absent and/or "no show" workers on the LIRR? The answer to that is simple. Cut the amount of staffing on the trains, facilities, etc. With higher on-board ticket fees, new equipment, more shop auto...

BillyK responded, I thought it was the conductor because he was wearing a blue coat. It was the train to montauk that was late and it was around 8pm. There was one guy on the front with a blue coat cleaning the horn and another in the cab smoking and talking on the phone. If this is the train I thin...

BillyK wrote, She dont like trains and no i wont take her to Jamaica. I was just talking about what I saw in Patchogue that night and i felt bad for the Conductor having to clean a horn while the engineer sat on the power talking on the phone. I saw him climb down under the engine and open that plas...

The reason it was put on hold at this time, was to explore having the LIRR heavy locomotive maintenance done at Harmon. Transportation is also working with MofE and MNCR Engineering on what would be necessary to haul LIRR locomotives to MN facilities.