Here, report has to be made public yet
https://mynewslinks.com/exclusive-bidens-emergency-board-calls-for-railroad-wage-hikes-to-resolve-contract-talks-iduskbn2pm1mk/
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Don’t forget the crews. No down time, on call most all the time. Plus you’d hope for a couple sick days. Money not bad. No other union job goes years without a contract. Reps better get it together. Health care always an issue. I believe we can do better.
We pay 12.6% of costs right now, not 15%
We pay 15 percent of the costs currently. If they remove the $228 monthly cap then insurance goes up every year forever because the carrier will always claim that the insurance is more expensive year after year. Then when this contract ends our wages freeze, but the uncapped insurance keeps going up. Wake up guys, we can’t accept this
I agree it's not that bad l have seen worse contracts for sure. Bottom line is that is going to be it. If you think we can strike and get better l suggest you contact your member of Congress and ask if they will support you, you won't like the answer!
If the insurance goes to $366 worse case scenario the difference is only 80 cents an hour which equals 21.5% compounded raise. If they offered the insurance locked in at $228 with the same coverage with only a 21.5% raise it would still be by far a way better contract then the last one. Plus the extra personal day. I think it’s pretty reasonable and don’t understand why everyone is acting like we are getting screwed. The last contract we got $3 dollars in 5 years and our insurance coverage got considerably worse.
Nothing has changed. It all boils down to 60/30.
Great contract!
- modest wage increases
- modest "signing" bonus
- health insurance goes up to about 350-400 a month, offsetting the wage increase values
- no sick days
- only 1 extra personal day
- railroads keep their Draconian attendance policies and keep firing people at will
F*** yes, big, big win for the Carriers...they will party their as--s off if we ratify this POS! One favor for me, please walk up to your favorite railroad white shirt, throw some change on the ground in front of him, and say,
"Here, you need this worse than I do!"
Sc--w this . Do they really believe we only average 30 hours a week ? Most of this was insulting if you read the entire thing . If the union heads say anything other than this recommendation is not acceptable , then they will have shown their true colors .
The previous contracts had a max dollar amount (cap) the employees would pay, this agreement the 15% has no dollar max. Should be frozen at the end of the new agreement at the current rate.
Capped just means they can’t keep raising the actual dollar amount beyond a certain point. At a minimum the actual cost to employees should be capped at whatever they are when the contract term ends.
The 15% capped or uncapped, what does that mean? Is this whatever the healthcare plan costs the carrier we are responsible for 15%? Not sure I understand. Anyone have any insight?
Looks like a copy was leaked out of the PEB report before official release. The are recommending to uncapped 15% contributions but not touching the deductibles or benefits at all. They did a good job at figuring out the scams the Carriers wanted to jack up the health care through the roof on us and explained it all in the report. They also said that meals should be negotiated as they have been updated in 28 years for BLET
What About H&W?