New system here called self supporting pool. Works like regular chain gang pool except in the 6/2 config work 6. Days and get 2 days off. Can't shut rest off. Rest days rotate so you can't bid on just the same two rest. Days. (Say sat and sun) sat/sun this week, 6 days work then ya get sun/mon off, 6 days work then ya. Get mon/Tuesday off.
Only thing seniority gets you is you'll probably stay on the same turn unless you are. The. Lowest guy who gets bumped out first. Spall check entering periods where it wants too..tired of going back to fix.
guy marks off sick, dv,pl,etc his turn disappears from the list. Till he marks back up. No need for extra list.
The way it's been working When there is a train and no one rested or available then they get someone off the extra list to run as a make up turn. It's not supposed to work that way. They figgured everybody would stay marked up and the few vacancys would be absorbed by the working guys.
out of 13 turns in a pool I'm familiar with 7 guys have fmla and use it regular.take the fact that 4 to 6 guys are off day to day for rest, and it happens that the pool is running with all make up turns!!
wonder how fast fmla will disappear if the repugs get in control?
-- Edited by Calvin on Friday 2nd of October 2015 09:13:16 PM
out of 13 turns in a pool I'm familiar with 7 guys have fmla and use it regular.take the fact that 4 to 6 guys are off day to day for rest, and it happens that the pool is running with all make up turns!!
Snippy has disputes going concerning this aspect of smaller pools where the rest days don't trigger on time and they get buncked up. The MU turns take over the pool and the pool stays buncked up.
Not sure how we'll escape it. LAMCO ain't making out so great, either. (GXB replaces pool.) But, they're stupidly fighting away instead of trying to make it work because they're control freaks. Your GC is plugging away at it, tu.
Snippy has disputes going concerning this aspect of smaller pools where the rest days don't trigger on time and they get buncked up. The MU turns take over the pool and the pool stays buncked up.
Not sure how we'll escape it. LAMCO ain't making out so great, either. (GXB replaces pool.) But, they're stupidly fighting away instead of trying to make it work because they're control freaks. Your GC is plugging away at it, tu.
Good to know. We had our meeting last Monday. Our division doesn't like it. We hope to get things back to the way they were.
I've been on 6-3's, 6-2's, 6-1's, even 8-3's for years. It started with first in-first out, got bastardized into last in-first out (not for long, thank god). It evolved from starts to scheduled days off. With the csll windows, it had worked out pretty good. If we don't get called for our "out day" (or are not rested because of the beating we took on our last trip) then we get paid a basic day. The next day, our "in"day, they can only call us to work within the 4 hour call window. If they don't call us, it's another paid day off. And you get aweekend off every 4 weeks (on a 6-3).
The chronically pissed off pelletheads have a 5-2 but they rebid every two weeks. The rest of us redheads along with the Cowboys bid every 4 months.
I guess it's all what you're used to, but I kinda like it.
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We once had the 10/5 which was the best thing ever. Then we had 7/3 boards with option to take the days off. Then we got 6/3 with option to take the days off. Now we have nothing. We depend on RSIA for any time off which they are very smart in holding trains to ensure your count restarts or keeping at the AFHT for 24+ to restart there.
My call window starts 10 hours after I tie up and doesn't stop till I get a train...cause we all know how well the lineups are.
Good to know. We had our meeting last Monday. Our division doesn't like it. We hope to get things back to the way they were.
CSX's unilateral imposition of the pools which rendered the term status quo moot, was arbitrated in Boston on 9/11.
No word on how long the good professor will take to write his ruling.
We were told that nobody from the GC is talking. They don't want rumors started and don't want to carrier to get some information to use against us. I guess it's better than hearing we lost.
