Login
or
Register
Home
»
Trains Magazine
»
Forums
»
General Discussion
»
Amtrak Wants Out of RRTA !!
Edit post
Edit your reply below.
Post Body
Enter your post below.
For edbenton: <br /> <br />Ed, paying the $75/month health care proposal is not the point. The point here is, Amtrak employees have gone nearly 45% of their 25 year career time without raises. They are now heading into their 6th year without a raise, and, the agreement being offered by Amtrak amounts to about $100 per month raise, BUT, they want $75 of that back towards health care. So, what do you suppose the "bring home" pay is going to be after taxes are taken out?? Probably would be LESS bring home pay than what the 40 hour work week gets you now. <br /> <br />If Amtrak employees were receiving annual increases like other industires give their employees, then, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to contribute to health care. But, contributing isn't going to solve the health care issues in this "money grubbing", and "gouge 'em for what you can" health care we have here in the USA!! <br /> <br />On top of that, Amtrak employees don't feel that receiving average annual increases of about 44¢ per hour for each of the last 22 years is what one would really call raises.
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag
Update Reply
Join our Community!
Our community is
FREE
to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.
Login »
Register »
Search the Community
Newsletter Sign-Up
By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our
privacy policy
More great sites from Kalmbach Media
Terms Of Use
|
Privacy Policy
|
Copyright Policy