I keep hearing shops or yards could be idled soon. Do we have any idea where and what they're thinking about specifics locations?
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It doesn't seem you have visited the Chatt Diesel Shop Edward!
It's in the hood G!
Chattanooga is in a great place.
Anyone saying middle of the ghetto has never been to another yard.
spot on AKA!
AKA. We already know this! AKA
yes EMD aka Caterpillar and GE aka Wabtec have some union contracts but not RR agreements aka less benefits lower wages and longer contract terms. what are you talking about long standing contracts? most are up for negotiations. as to who will work on the equipment. well they are producing a workforce every furlough. everything is primed to outsource. so hang on tight we are in for a ride!!!
Any class 1 railroad that buys a maintenance agreement from GE or EMD still employs union labor to perform the work. NS has been the only class 1 that hasn’t purchased this type of agreement. Most of the technical personnel from EMD and GE come from railroad craft employees. Who do you think they are actually going to get to work on this stuff? Knoxville locomotive? Curry Supply? ACS? They don’t have the amount people or the knowledge. And what’s left of the long standing contracts protects that work.
the work is contract already to the union halls. union craft workers need to compete and step it up. that said sadly the high wage and low energy union worker will most likely fall by the wayside if this isn’t corrected and soon. as to the management they are leaving too fast to cut them. they are running for the hills because most know the painful reality to get a union worker to do work is what will bring this industry to its knees. i’m not a rail worker but this is how the outsiders see this playing out.
Outsource the work and let all the contractors price gouge the railroad like GE is doing. It’ll bite them in the a$$ eventually. Maybe be 5 yrs down the road or might be 10 yrs but it’ll happen. Funny part is, they’ll do away with all craft personnel, contract the work out, and won’t reduce non agreement people at all 😂
wrong thinking. it’s not what is closing or reduced. it’s what or where will the work go. i think we will all be surprised who will be growing in capacity.
Back atcha!
Exactly! Wilcox is safe too!
I don't have a source like our good friend Mrs. Balboa here, but I'm guessing Conway, RLS, Bellevue are among the 3 to shut down in 2020. Let's hope not.
Chattanooga is right in the middle of the Ghetto! It's a total dump. I wouldn't call it a good location at all! 🤣🤣
Chattanooga is in a good location and I believe they are safe. Both shops in Roanoke will not make it through the year, one will fall and the other will at least be cut in half.
Chattanooga they have been shopping the belts job and the hump don’t seem b in the future plans either
Bellevue’s days are numbered... May keep a skeleton crew going because of the main... unfortunate as it is, the location just doesn’t make sense in the scheme that they’re going with.
Kind of like Shaffer’s getting brand new r—ders then shutting the hump down? Conways going away, they may upgrade some things to get some tax credits and write offs like Shaffer’s but it’s a goodbye
Unfortunately Conway is not closing. I heard they are getting a bunch of new equipment and they're going to start updating the facilities
Bellevue
Conway definitely, not sure about the others
Nobody knows until it happens. Not even the Great and Powerful Conway know it all!