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[quote user="oltmannd"] [quote user="Sam1"]Hanging on to the car repair expertise may not be that difficult.  Offer to move the employees, with generous allowances, including incentives to find and buy a new house, and adjust their wages to reflect the higher cost of living in the Chicago area.[/quote] That works okay for the mgt.  It's the agreement folk where there's a rub.  I have no idea of the particulars, but I know it's anything but trivial.  You can't just "give" relocation,  cost of living adjustments, etc. without opening a huge can of worms. [/quote] I never worked in the rail industry, so maybe the rules (real and imagined) make it more difficult to move craft people.  We did not have that problem.  We moved craft people from power plants to gas plants to coal mines and back again.  And half way across the state to boot. Half way across Texas is nearly the same as half way across France. We did not, however, move low skilled people, but there are not many low skilled people in electric power plants.   I sense that the biggest barrier to innovation at Amtrak is management.  It seems to lack the guts to be innovative and take on the big challenges. It seems to roll over at the slightest challenge, i.e. implementing the PRIIA recommendations, assigning seats, etc.  We made it clear, especially after 1992 when competition came to the utility business in Texas, that we were a competitive business, and everyone had to be on board to achieve the corporation's objectives.  The craft people, as well as professionals and managers, understood the game had changed, and most of them signed on.
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