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Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I have noted quite a bit of hypocrisy from both sides. First of all the UTU pushed for Trainmen to be able to operate Remotes. The problem I have with this is when the engineers lose their jobs in the yards they will flow back to another engineer pool and it starts a cascading effect in which some engineers will have nowhere to go because of their low seniority. So, in the end these displaced engineers will flow back as conductors and then the same cascading effect occurs with the conductors leaving some furloughed, so what doesn't make sense to me is why the UTU would push remotes when in the end it only hurts the members it is trying to represent?? <br /> My second point about the BLE is that they have merged with the Teamsters. The Teamsters represent trucking interests. Right there, I'm very suspicious of the intent of the BLE. There are already some local industries that have railroad spurs that have never been used because the business signed an agreement with the teamsters to only use trucking. To me this is ludicrous and hypocritical of the BLE to merge with the Teamsters when it seems like the BLE has made a deal with the devil. The only reason that I can see why the BLE merged with the Teamsters is to improve negotiations between the two unions and maybe work out some joint rail/trucking agreements with industries, but I just don't know how that sits with the memebers of each side??? [%-)][banghead][D)][sigh]
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