What Will Happen to Conrail Employees?

[Anonymous]

At my home terminal there are only a handful of former Conrail employees. They have a prior rights agreement that protects their seniority on the one Conrail job we have here, so they have the seniority of their hire date on Conrail much to the angst of a lot of the CSX guys here who want their job. When the Conrail employees are officially eaten up by CSX they will retain their hire date seniority and it will act is if they have worked for CSX the whole time meaning many guys could be bumped off their jobs because these guys will jump up in seniority. I think they'll end up staying where they are at because they've been working the same job for years and they know it like the back of their hand.

[Anonymous]

The employees of SAA will go to CSX and NS according to seniority and in accordance with the labor agreements entered into concerning the merger/acquisition of Conrail by CSX and NS. The agreements will give them certain choices.

LC

[ValleyX]

If something happens to the Shared Assets and NS and CSX make a decision to divide these areas up, then the Shared Assets employees have an option of going to work for either NS or CSX, based on seniority and personal choice and, I'm sure, the area they're working in. This was set up before the acquisition for train and engine employees, anyway, not knowledgeable about the rest of the employees.

As for laid-off employees going to the head of the line when trying to find employment with other railroads, I've never heard of such a practice.

[Anonymous]

I doubt many jobs would be lost. It's not like they would take those Shared asset areas and shut them down. Somebody would have to operate those yards and switchers! It would be the people who are there now. Sure some management realignment would occur, but most RR management types are superfluous anyway. Excepting a few very good RFE's who tend to help their charges not throw them under the jail.

[Anonymous]

I was reading the thread on good and bad shippers (RR's), and "slotracer" had stated the bad attitude of many Conrail crews. I was wondering if these guys are looking at their jobs being lost?

Do I have this right?: .....Conrail is still actually a railraod company that owns track and structure, and has its own employees. NS and CSX own the engines and lease them to Conrail. The whole Conrail Shared Assets thing is able to be disolved 5 years after the takeover of Conrail, which is now, and that NS and CSX do want to take control over what's left of Conrail.

If I'm right, then these guys are just waiting for their jobs to go up in smoke?

Does their knowledge and experience of running trains in such congested areas like northern NJ and Detroit make them needed by NS/CSX?

Have there been labor agreements where laid off railroad employees are given hiring preferentials at another railroad (not just because they have valuable RR experience, but that a rule forces another railroad to put them at the front of the hiring line because they are ex-employees of another RR?

Thanks
Jim