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Cy Valley


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Color blind?  Flawed tests?

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The federal government has joined more than a dozen former workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used a vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train.

The lawsuit announced Monday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of 21 former workers is the first the government filed in what could eventually be hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits over the way Union Pacific disqualified people with a variety of health issues.

https://news.yahoo.com/government-sues-union-pacific-over-194000626.html



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We had an engineer who could never pick out the numbers in the test circles. The Dr (who loathed the RR) would bring out big brightly colored strips of yarn to assist him in the test. The engineer had previously explained to the doctor about working exclusively in "dark territory". Through the years there were a few hoggers I didn't like running against, this guy was not on that list.



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LAMCO agreements specify the method of conducting field tests on the engineer's territory using real, live signals, not some sort of light cannon.

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When I try to find out what a light cannon is, I see ads for bright spotlights...and maybe a blurb about the ruling...so what is this device, and how does it work?

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Do the the dozen former workers still want to work for UP with shit like this?

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They might, but for sure they want back pay and settlement money!

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