Since I'm in a union and have a contract with the company doesn't that make me a contractor? The only real UP employees are non union employees. (Managers, Directors ect.)
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No it doesn’t. Everyone has a contract, even non-agreement employees...they just have an individually negotiated agreement instead of a collective bargaining agreement. The difference between an employer and a contractor in the sense you’re using it, is that contractors are brought in to complete specific projects for a price; while employees are expected to work for the company for a set rate (hourly, salary, etc.). A contractor would, say, install equipment in a shop for $100,000, or service locomotives at (I have no idea how much money) say, $100 per locomotive, and the contractor would hire the number of employees needed to fulfill their contract. An employee is someone paid directly by the employer at a set rate ($30/hr, $5000/month, etc.), to work on whatever the employer wants.
Another way of looking at it...UP isn’t paying IAM $10,000,000/ year to maintain 4000 locomotives, and then the IAM would decide who to hire to accomplish that goal. Instead, UP decides for itself how many machinists it takes to maintain their 4000 locomotives, and pays them $33/hr directly.
Because I have the courage to care.
Why do u care?
fake news there's no supervision on the railroad
They let them know they’re real employees by working them 90 hours a week on salary.
Your agreement expired at the end of 2019.