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CSX southern lines pact: Mixed results

A tentative five-year wage, rules and working conditions agreement between four UTU general committees of adjustment and CSX southern lines has been ratified by members of the largest general committee, defeated by members of two other committees, and will be re-voted on a fourth owing to an initial tie vote.

The agreement ratification process followed provisions of the UTU Constitution, guaranteeing each craft have a separate vote and that agreements are ratified only if a majority of each craft voting casts "yes" ballots. Members on all properties voted in the craft on which they worked on the day ballots were mailed.

A majority of votes cast by all crafts on the former Seaboard Coast Line (SCL) ratified the agreement with respect to that general committee.

On the former Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O), the tentative agreement was ratified by all crafts except conductors, and thus was defeated under the UTUs craft autonomy guarantee.

On the former Atlanta & West Point (A&WP), conductors ratified the agreement, but the trainmen vote was a tie, thus the agreement will be resubmitted to both conductors and trainmen for a new vote.

On the former Louisville & Nashville (L&N, which includes Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis), the tentative agreement was rejected by all crafts.

The vote was on an agreement negotiated outside national handling, with approval of the UTU Association of General Chairpersons, District 1, and the National Carriers Conference Committee.

The agreement dealt specifically with issues and circumstances unique to CSX southern lines and was negotiated jointly by four CSX southern lines general chaiarpersons -- John Hancock (GO 851, SCL), Randy Pullen (GO 025, A&WP), Jim Townsend (GO 201, C&O), and J.R. "Johnny" Willis (GO 513, L&N).

The ratified agreement affecting employees of the former SCL will now be signed and implemented.

Details of re-voting on former Atlanta & West Point are being worked out and members will be informed regarding new ballots.

As for the former C&O and L&N properties, a decision must be made by the general committees whether to return to national handling. However, CSX has indicated it will not deal with southern lines properties in national handling, but wants a specific southern lines agreement.

Separately, CSX is negotiating with CSX northern lines general chairpersons toward a separate agreement affecting those properties, including Conrail Shared Assets.

CSX has advised, under authority from the Surface Transportation Board dating to creation of CSX, that it intends to coordinate a single agreement rail operation that will combine agreements on the former C&O and former L&N properties. How that CSX coordination notice will be worded is currently unknown, and it likely will play out in proceedings before the federal regulatory agency.

As a historical note, when CSX and NS acquired Conrail, CSX served coordination notices that put the former Conrail and the former Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac (RF&P) properties under the former Baltimore & Ohio agreement, with the Conrail and RF&P agreements disappearing. Also, CSX, through a coordination agreement, previously wiped out the former Western Maryland property agreement, which was upheld in arbitration.

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May 6, 2010


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It doesn't sound like it is going to good down there. I like those L&N guys.

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Smells like dejaVu....


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    Vol.60/No.29           August 19, 1996 
 
 
Rail Unions Approve Contracts  

BY BILL ARTH

BROOKLYN, New York - A July 24 strike deadline on major U.S. railroads passed without a walkout. The Transportation and Communications Union (TCU), which organizes about 20,000 clerks and 12,000 carmen, agreed to a tentative contract hours before the deadline. Union officials did not release details of the settlement, which is subject to membership ratification.

The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees (BMWE), which organizes 27,000 track workers, reached a tentative agreement July 22 with all the railroads except Conrail. According to a statement issued by BMWE President Mac Fleming, Conrail refused to accept terms agreed to by the other railroads concerning "job security provisions" for workers with 10 years' seniority, as well as "production gang definition."

BMWE officials sent a written pledge to the companies, the Clinton administration, and Congress that they would not strike before July 31. "We also have committed to take no action beyond July 31 that would disrupt essential rail service to the nation," Fleming added. The BMWE and Conrail are continuing to negotiate.

The framework for the TCU and BMWE negotiations had been set by an earlier settlement with the United Transportation Union (UTU), which organizes about 50,000 conductors, brakemen, and yardmasters, as well as a few engineers. The UTU membership, in their first-ever vote on a national agreement,rejected a settlement that contained minimal wage increases and some concessions on work rules. Seeing the giant profits posted by the railroads this year, UTU members wanted a better contract after two decades of setbacks on wages and working conditions.

UTU officials instead voluntarily submitted the offer to binding arbitration, citing fear that a Republican-dominated Congress would impose a worse contract. The arbitrator rapidly issued a ruling that imposed the exact same provisions the membership had rejected. This contract then served as the pattern for the other settlements.

Bill Arth is a member of UTU Local 1447, and is a brakemen for Conrail.



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CSX is going to put out a Section 4 notice for down there. The results have been unacceptable to them.

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