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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jumanly Rock Island had incredibly good employees and many darn good managers. It had few reasonable union leaders, however, who led good employees down the path to unemployment. Most of the Union leaders kept their positions with successor lines and cared little of the troops they had led. They were "frozen at the controls" when management tried to show new ideas to save the Company, they couldn't respond with anything except status quo. [/quote] Following extracted from the Rock Island, "Employees' Newsletter" of 1979: Employees' Newsletter - Tenth of '79 Two unions' leaders have not settled. The United Transportation Union (UTU) and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (BRAC) have steadfastly insisted upon retroactivity as a condition of settlement. Both UTU and BRAC leaders settled all other Rock Island issues months ago--when the retroactive pay issue was quite minor--but insisted upon retroactivity because, "that's the way it has always been done in the railroad industry." Employees' Newsletter - Twelfth of '79 On August 9, the trustee issued a statement to employees confirming that during mediation the railroad had offered BRAC a UTU-type settlement, with increased wages immediately while advisory arbitration or a special board inquiry settle the retroactive pay issue. BRAC rejected the offer, as it has turned down the railroad's overtures since July 19 to resume negotiations. Employees' Newsletter - Thirteenth of '79 BRAC President Kroll ordered a strike by The Rock's clerks, beginning at 6 a.m., Tuesday, August 28. Tuesday afternoon, meantime, UTU, the only other union that has not finally settled with the Rock in the current round, informed the National Mediation Board that it would strike the railroad at 6 a.m. Wednesday. ... The Rock Island does not have the resources to pay retroactivity. That was the key finding of Kay McMurray, the neutral member of the National Mediation Board special board of inquiry into the UTU-Rock retroactive pay dispute. ... McMurray: "Whether or not this carrier could survive further economic warfare, the neutral must leave to the parties' judgement and the passage of time. Based on the record, the odds are against its survival." For complete text, see: http://storm.simpson.edu/~RITS/history.html and navigate to the "labor issues" link.
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