Claim Invalid??     Railroaders work, and expect to be paid. It's a simple idea. Less work means less pay. Likewise, more work should mean more pay, but that's not the way things work on the CSX. According to union contracts, there are situations that warrant additional pay, for additional work, but more often than not, these claims are not honored by the CSX.

Webmaster's note: Since I go through the server logs regularly, I just thought I'd take this opportunity to point out that all of the comments in defense of the company seem to come from Jacksonville, while complaints come from everywhere that the company does business. You do the math.

Name: 
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Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years
Posted: 04 February 2012

From what I have seen a lot of people file a claim but don't follow up
when it is denies. I truly believe payroll is trained to decline most
claims because they know many will not be resubmitted. Everybody needs
to push their claims and force the company to start paying up. I have
some carved in stone claims they denied that I'm still awaiting
payment but I will never let them get away with it. They are bragging
about record profits but don't pay what they owe us. They also
apparently would rather pay me 2-3 hours overtime per trip while I'm
trying to get a z put in for a deadhead and turn than hire some more
callers.

Name: School Boy E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 January 2012 IF you don't like the company why work there? The good thing about this great country God Made, is that you are free to work anywhere and not forced to work here. So again I ask, why stay here? Why not leave? Oh that's right, you can't get a BETTER job else where.

Name: Corp Comm E-mail: Bye bye Brown Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 January 2012 Dear CSX Employees, I am pleased to announce the appointments of Oscar Munoz as executive vice president and chief operating officer and Fredrik Eliasson as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Oscar and Fredrik are respected leaders, both inside and outside of our industry, and people I trust to help guide and energize the organization with the highest degree of success and integrity.  What means even more to me than their leadership and business skills is their passion for our company and its future. Oscar replaces David Brown, who is no longer with the company.  As stated in the press release, the company’s decision to make this change is unrelated to CSX’s financial condition, business performance or outlook, all of which remain strong.  We have a great operating team, and I am highly confident that they will achieve even greater levels of success in the future. Dean Piacente will succeed Fredrik as vice president of sales and marketing for the chemicals and fertilizer business, a position he held previously.  Dean is highly respected among this customer group and the transition will be seamless.  We will quickly identify a successor to Dean for his financial planning and analysis responsibilities. Also along with these new appointments, we are making a few additional organization realignments. Frank Lonegro and the Technology organization will be moved to Operations, reporting to Oscar.  This change will ensure that there is even more integration between Technology and Operations as we prepare our company to implement Positive Train Control and maintain all of the key systems necessary to run our railroad safely and efficiently. At the same time, Fran Chinnici and the Purchasing organization and Steve Crosby and the Real Property group will both report to Lisa Mancini in her role as chief administrative officer. We just completed a record financial year for CSX, and we believe that we are headed together for a strong 2012.  Please join me in building on the leadership changes announced today by continuing to deliver top-notch performance in the year ahead. Sincerely, Michael Ward

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 January 2012 YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT. THE UTU WENT OFF ON THERE OWN INSTEAD OF STICKING WITH THE OTHER UNIONS, AND NEGOTIATED A CONTRACT THAT DID NOTHING FOR THE MEMBERS AT ALL. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY SOLD EVERYONE OUT AGAIN! I WOULDN'T JOIN THE UTU IF THE DUES WERE FREE, THEY WOULD STILL SELL ME OUT.

Name: RUKidding E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 January 2012 To LE 30+: You mention that you are "pro union", yet the facts you cite in your diatribe on the current state of unions is a little off the mark, as are your comments on who is to blame for the current state of affairs. First, union officers who make $300K a year? really, I suggest you look at the DOL website and search for your respective unions LM reports where the salaries of those union leaders is a matter of public record for all to see. I also doubt you'll see any salaries in the range you suggest. As to our current contracts and situation, it can be argued that the UTU placed us in that position, or on the path of going the PEB route, but the fact remains, that the unions within PEB243 were told by the people in the congress that if the issue actually came to them, they'dve shoved into us even more, quite possibly wrecking the RLA and RRB in the process of "helping us". This should be cause for concern because it shows where the real issue lies, that being the congress we elect of office doesn't represent us, they represent those special interests who supply the most dollar wise. Now who might that be? Surely not the unions who essentially operate on a shoestring money wise. Hell we get grief from our repective memberships for a $1.00/month increase in dues while the bozos in congress take 10 times that from us without so much as a whimper from those same folks who gripe at the $1.00 increase. Most union members don't care about what goes on between contracts, either within their union, or the congress. They only look at things from that brief time and say to their union "what are you going to do for me?" Nevermind that in between when that union member should have been caring and paying attention the whole time, congress cuts the rug out from under the union by being beholden to the Carrier who supplies those congressmen with the $$ for re-election. And we wonder why we're in the proverbial pickle? That union that you seem to despise is in actuality protecting you rights and helping to keep your standards of living at par or better than the nation as a whole, all while you happily go to work in between contracts and pay no mind to what gos on. The whole time protecting you from forces that would love to strip that which you have away from you. If they could do it all at once they would. They can't because of some of things the union brought to you (i.e. RLA, mediation, workers rights laws just to name a few). We all need to wake up and see where the process has gone wrong and start doing something about it instead of standing in the shadows, and then bitching about the very folks who do our battles for us 365/24/7 .

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 January 2012 Evan Sounds like sour grapes. With over 70% voting in favor of ratification the majority rules. I figured seeing you cried about it on every thread I'd do the same. lol

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 January 2012 The national was ratified. This proves the carrier can and will do whatever it wants. Healthcare isn't what it was just wait till next contract. We will even give up a little more. The time I retire the carrier wont contribute nothing. Utu, Ble, Csx FUCK YOU

Name: PO E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 January 2012 GET the vacations in.. Jim, get off your fat ass and put the vacations in..

Name: Billy E E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..

Name: brown1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Your bonus will be sent by the 24th Dec. Merry Christmas

Name: ward1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas We're shutting down Thursday the 22nd at 2359. Everyone enjoy your family and friends. Don't worry about rushing back to work. We will start dh on the 2nd of Jan.2012. thanks for a great year

Name: Aaron Cross E-mail: cindermydawg@gmail.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 December 2011 I think you guys should make a Facebook page mimicking this site. Now days if you want things changed you need a petition to do it. Its the next best thing to a strike and actually losing your job. Facebook now days boosts companies' reputation with the "LIKE" button, or it can destroy them or even make it better for their employees.. all it needs to do is spread like a disease over facebook, regarding the lack of pay, compensation, and general "fuck you work anyway" attitude CSX has for its employees, and once the bad publicity spreads enough CSX will have a hard enough time finding buisness from companies wanting to use their rail cars for transport for fear of a strike or bad morale the employees who transport their goods hold for CSX. im gonna tell you a story, I learned this in a leadership course in the NAVY. its called "The 10 monkeys Story" regarding how to change things. There are 2 monkeys in a cell. the cell has a banana hanging from the ceiling and a fire hose pointing inside the cell.. both monkeys tried reaching for the banana and got blasted by the fire hose every time they attempted for it. after a week another monkey was placed into the cell... the new monkey went right for the banana and the other 2 monkeys beat the shit out of him.. 1 and then 2 and then 3 more monkeys were added to the cell and each time the new monkey went for the banana the other monkeys beat the shit out of him.. and pretty soon this happened still when there were ten monkeys in the cell.. they would just beat the shit out of whatever monkey wanted to go for the banana not realizing the fire hose was already taken away. point of the story is, the fire hose is one guy, one guy who set rules or procedure maybe 10 years ago, and everyone back then followed it, and after awhile that one guy (fire hose) left and everyone else just kept implementing and beating the shit out of everyone else because thats just how its always been.. Just because things were that way once, doesnt mean it cannot be changed or someone else can make changes.. for example, A boss(the fire hose) got sick of one person in particular sitting down when there was no work to be done, so he set a rule that even if its -0 degrees outside when theres nothing to be done you will stand outside in the cold untill something comes up. well it goes on like that for awhile 1 year goes by and that old boss (the fire hose) is gone, and people are still standing around outside waiting for work to do, even the other bosses inforce it not even knowing the original reason for it.. and then it never changes.. you will always be standing out side freezing your ass off unless you question why it came to be like that or do something about it. Im sorry for the long statement, but I really feel for you CSX employees makin 40k for a job you should be making 50-60k doing. and what is worse is that for the low money you do make, you are treated so shitty and get screwed over so much. <<<Not an Employee>> so I can speak my mind since the employees who think complimenting CSX on this site will earn them brownie points or extra money in the future are too stupid to realize it wont.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 December 2011 I just voted NO.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2011 Hey RRJ: Bailey's or Drambuie really liven up that morning cup!

Name: cya E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 RRJ, What are you putting in that morning coffee? We all read a lot of dumb shit from you.

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2011 Educational site rrj must have fell off his rocker again. I've red some silly post on here from him, but that one takes the cake. Old man it's time to put the pc down and feed the squirrels..

Name: mmmmmmm E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2011 Educational page called csx-sucks. You have to be joking.

Name: Sonny E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 December 2011 rrj YOu must live on this site or do you work for csx-sucks? Everytime I read something on here you have some silly remark. You must patrol this site.

Name: Willy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 December 2011 RRJ CSX-Sucks is the name of this site in case you didn't know. It's not like when you worked out here referring to certain ones like yourself " safety sucks, csx sucks, company sucks." this is a negative site bashing csx. I hope this helps. Now go feed your pengions old man..

Name: Boyles E-mail: RRJ Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 December 2011 RRJ, THANKS FOR A GOOD POST......WIFE AND I BOTH DO ENJOY THAT RAILROAD RETIREMENT CHECK ALSO...,,,,,,I DO HOPE AFTER 2 YEARS OF NO INCREASE,,,WE DO GET A RAISE THIS YEAR... I HEARD WE WOULD,,,,BUT,,THAT STILL WILL NOT CHANGE MY VOTE.!!! I SEE ALOT OF CHANGE HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE COMPANY SINCE MY REITREMENT ......ALOT OF GOOD FRIENDS AND CO WORKERS HAVE PASSED AWAY,,,AND,,,ALOT OF THEM,,,STILL YOUNG... I REALIZED,,,JOBS THAT WERE ON CALL 24---7,,,AND THE MONEY WAS NOT INMPRTANT ANYMORE.. LIFE,,,DOING THINGS WITH FAMILY,,,FRIENDS,,MEANT MORE TO ME THAT THE MONEY,,,AND,,AFTER R.R. TAX,,,,YOU MAY GET HALF,,,,,,,... ....YES,,,RAILROAD PAYS GOOD AND OT HELPED,,,BUT,,RAILROADS DO CUT ALOT OF TAX......I HIRED IN,,,I MADE $3.50 A HOUR AND I THOUGHT I WAS ON TOP OF THE WORLD.. RAILROAD WAS GOOD TO ME AS FAR AS MONEY,,,,,AND,,,I WAS GOOD TO THE RAILROAD AS WORKING......BUT,,IT GOT TO A POINT,,,,CHANGE WAS COMEING AND I SEEN IT....... I TOOK EARLY RETIREMENT AND HAVEING A BLAST ,,,WIFE AND I AND OUR CAMPER.!!! I HAVE ALOT OF STORIES I COULD TELL,,BUT,,,I DO NOT WANT TO NAME NAMES AS IT WOULD NOT BE RIGHT.... SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD STORIES ABOUT THE RAILROAD...... ......I DID SEE THIS COMING,,,,SO,,I PAID EVERYTHING OFF AHEAD OF TIME,,,,,,,I RE ADJUSTED MY SELF TO MY MONTHLY RETIREMENT INCOME,,, HAVE A BLESSED DAY,,,,,,,BOYLES..

Name: Boyles E-mail: UNION Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 THE GUYS I WORKED BESIDE WERE SCARED TO WRITE UP CLAIMS,,,,,SO,,,I WROTE THEM FOR US.......OF COURSE,,MOST WERE DENIED.!!!! A 100% GOOD CLAIM,,,MOST,,,WE NEVER GOT,!!!! NOW AND THEN,,,A CLAIM WOULD BE PAID,!!!!,,,,,, THE COMPANY SIGNED THE SAME AGGREMENT AS THE UNION,,,,,,SO,,IF A CLAIM IS LEGAL,,,,PAY ME,!!!!! BUT,,THAT IS NOT HOW CSX WORKED.. I HAD A COMPANY MAN,,TELL ME TO MY FACE,,,,,,,YOUR UNION IS NOT WORTH A DAMM,!!!!! CLAIM ALL YOU WANT,,,,I WILL PAY NOTHING,!!!. IT IS SAD,,,,HOW THIS R.R. HAS BECOME SO EVIL.......I HAVE BEEN OFF OVER 10 YEARS.......AND,,IT WAS BAD THEN,,,BUT,,FROM THESE POST I READ,,,,,,IT IS ALOT WORSE NOW,,!!!!! ....FRA RULES,,,,,,SAFTY RULES,,,,,,A JOKE.......MANY RULE CLASSES...THERE WERE SOME THAT ALWAYS FAILED.....BUT,,,THESE MEN LEFT THAT RULE CLASS WITH A PASSING GRADE......NO ONE FAILED.!!! IS THIS SAFTY.???......I SEEN FRA TEST GRADES,,,CHANGED,,,,,, BUT,,,NOW,,,I TRY TO FOCUS ON THE ROAD AHEAD.....I HAD MY TIME ON THE RAILROAD,,,IT IS YOUR TIME NOW,,,, GOOD LUCK,!!!!!!!!

Name: Boyles E-mail: UNIONS Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 I DO AGREE ,,MOST OF THE TIME ,,,I PERFERE UNION JOBS... BUT,,IN ALABAMA.TENNESSE AND MISSISSIPPI THEY NOW HAVE 4 MAJOR CAR PLANTS,,,,,NO UNION......!!!!!!! THESE PLANTS,,PAY AS MUCH OR MORE THAN UNION PLANTS,,,HAVE VERY GOOD BENIFITS...AND,,,AS LONG AS YOU DO YOUR JOB,,,,NO PROBLEM,,, I HAVE WORKED UNION JOBS,,MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE,,,,,LAST 30 ,,,RAILROAD.... I HAVE SEEN SORRY,,NO ACCOUNT..LAZY WORKERS,,,GET SAME PAY AS THE GOOD WORKERS....AND LAUGH AT THE EMPLOYE THAT TRIES HARD... SINCE ALL WORKERS,,,GOOD AND BAD,,ARE ALL PROTECTED UNDER THE UNION... IF THINGS ARE NOT CHANGED,,,IN THE NEXT 4 YEARS,,,,,PEOPLE THAT ARE 65,,,WILL NOT GET A RETIREMENT.....MONEY FOR RETIREMENT COMES FROM TAXES COLLECT OUT OF WORKERS CHECKS.....IF MORE PEOPLE GET ON FOOD STAMPS,,,WELFARE AND ECT,,,,,THERE IS NO MONEY COLLECTED FROM THESE PEOPLE...TO GO INTO RETIREMENT FUNDS.!!!!!! WHO IS GOING TO PAY.!!!! THE RICH,,,PAY ABOUT 75% OF ALL THE TAXES......THE MIDDLE CLASS 25%,,,,,,,,....,THE POOR OR WELFARE,,GOVERMENT CHECK PEOPLE,,,PAY NOTHING... AT SOME POINT OF TIME,,,MONEY WILL BE GONE... THERE MUST BE A STOPPING POINT FROM GOVERMENT TO UNIONS,,,, AMERICA IS AT THE LAST ROAD TO BECOMNG A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY... THE 3 RD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE NOW,,,PASSING AMERICA.!!!!

Name: Y E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 December 2011 Pierce formally notifies General Chairmen of tentative agreement CLEVELAND, December 5 — Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) National President Dennis R. Pierce has formally notified General Chairmen representing employees impacted by national health and welfare bargaining of the Tentative Agreement reached between the BLET and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) late last week. Not able to strike=no union ble wasted our money and time with this bullshit when there was no way we were ever going to be able to strike republican democrats they're all full of shit they don't care about the unions just reelection no one stood with us why should we stand with them

Name: JimmyDean E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 December 2011 I want my back pay and I want it now. It sucks working for this place. Cant lay off don't make what we should for hours we put in the economy turn around and i'm out this hole

Name: Y E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 December 2011 A union not able to strike is useless what a waste of money Congress kiss are asses

Name: done E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 November 2011 do i need 234 to get a vacation next year is this new everyone telling me 240 SL #4: CSX to recognize 234 “computed” days for the purpose of determining qualification for road vacations (180 basic days x 1.3 days 234 qualifying).

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 November 2011 Mindyourownbusiness Seems you're the only one who violated confidentiality by naming the person. That was wrong on your part. It's funny you chose to reprimand someone but you're the guilty party. This naming names on this site is mostly petty jealousy. Like the posts of people thinkng some get off easy on CSX by naming names it makes then feel better in actuality it shows they are a small person. What was your motive on identifying who you suspect another poster was discussing? lol. Now everyone knows. lol

Name: Mindyourbusiness E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2011 This posting is in response to the post from datsombebs@yahoo.com or John Doe. Please be sure that you have all the facts before posting information regarding another employee's status. It is not hard to guess who the employee is that you speak of that is being allowed to return to his conductor seniority on the A&WP. My guess is that you are referring to CD Ingram. If that's the case be man enough to say so instead of cloaking behind some fake e-mail address. However, you are completely incorrect in your summation of the facts and the events that took place. I am curious, how would other students know another employee's grades or his SIMS scores? I would venture to assume that this information is private and isn't shared with other students. The next question, are you being affected by this situation? I would venture to say that you have less conductor seniority than this employee and you don't want to see him return for that reason alone. With that said, be careful of what you wish on another person it might just happen to you. What do you have to gain? Why do you feel so strongly about this situation? Aren't railroaders supposed to be "brothers" in solidarity? Your post explains why the Carrier has such an easy time in charging or denying claims to other union employees. They don't have to search for anything people like you simply hand it to them. Good job, hope you are proud of yourself. Just wanted you to know that next time you decide to post make sure that you aren't posting a rumor. Post facts you might seem a little bit more intelligent.

Name: A "Wife" E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 As a "Wife" to an Employee of Radnor Yard... KARMA!!!! I sure hope those men keep their jobs because they are going to be BROKE paying all that child support ( yup, even to you Anna)!!! I personally don't think these woman are that stupid not to know what is going on! All those meetings, training seminars, derailments and overtime or extra shifts are total BS!!! And if the wives and spouses know about what is going on and want to tolerate it, well shame on them and they are just as twisted!! CSX is not a place for families.

Name: John Doe E-mail: datsomebs@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 *****MUST READ******* IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE OR YOU HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR NOT PASSING THE ENGINEERS TRAINING PROGRAM YOU NEED TO READ THIS. AN ATLANTA DIVISION CONDUCTOR ON THE A&WP SUB-DIVISION FAILED ENGINE SCHOOL AND IS BEING ALLOWED TO GO BACK ON HIS CONDUCTOR SENIORITY. OTHER GUYS THAT WERE IN THE CLASS WITH THIS INDIVIDUAL SAID HE GOT BY EVERY STOP SIGNAL ON THE SIMS AND COULD NOT EVEN PASS THE SIGNAL TEST OR ANY OTHER TEST HE WAS GIVEN. I KNOW SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WERE FIRED BECAUSE THEY FAILED AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO COME BACK ON THEIR CONDUCTOR SENIORITY AS THE LETTER YOU SIGN STATES BEFORE YOU BEGIN ENGINE CLASSES. GET THE WORD OUT TO THOSE THIS HAS HAPPENED TO.

Name: Indy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 I haven't recieved my back pay and those dirty basterds haven't paid me my raise it's only been over a month. Has anyone else had this problem

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 November 2011 SADLY,,,I COULD NOT VOTE DEMOCRATE,,,,,,, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN UNION,,,BUT,,NOW I SEE WHAT THEY HAD DONE AND WHAT DESTRUCTION THEY HAVE GAVE THE RAILROAD... I HAD RATHER GIVE MY TAX MONEY TO A RICH MAN THAT WORKS,,,THAN A DEAD BEAT ,,SOCIALIST ,,COMMUNIST THAT IS PAID TO DO NOTHING,,,DRAW WELFARE AND GOVERMENT BENIFITS... WITH MY TAX MONEY.!!!! AND,,,YOUR UNION IS NOT WHAT YOUR DADS UNION WAS 50 YEARS AGO.... IT IS CORRUPT NOW,,,,,,,BACKED BY THE DEMOCRATE PARTY..... ...YES,,,I AGREE,,BOTH PARTIES ARE SOMEWHAT CORRUPT,,,BUT,,,GIVE MY TAX MONEY TO A WORKING MAN,,,NOT A SOCIAL STAY HOME DEAD BEAT GOVERMENT PAID,,,PERSON,,,,, THIS IS CALLED,,MODERN DAY SLAVERY,,,PAID FOR BY THE DEMOCRATES.. WHAT HAPPEN TO ,,,,HOPE AND CHANGE.?????

Name: Radnor Trash E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 November 2011 Why is Ted not at the top of this list? If anyone would put up with Scott's crap he might of made the list. He is still dreaming that he's the ladies man. Other than that, I might agree with the list.

Name: Re: Nashville E-mail: Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 November 2011 Nashville If anyone that made it to "Family Day" could have noticed who is who. You had married employees that did not bring their spouse, employees that did bring their spouses and limited them on conversations with fellow employees, of course the glares from the ones that have had relations with one another. There needs to be tighter restrictions against the "Power Houses" that are ruining families and the companies name. Now let's start with that list. 1. Ted (swinger) 2. John (watch out for your wives, girlfriends and daughters) 3. Jeremy (better get tested when your done with him) 4. Mike (old school)

Name: Nashville E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 November 2011 Nashville- As for not knowing who Anna Stayton's babies daddy is, better get some DNA tests from the Train Master's down there. Only about 99.9% of the guys at Radnor Yard are messing around on their wives... They also like to share down there. NIGHTS DO GET LONELY DOWN THERE!! Let's start a list 1. 2. 3. Is it really fair for the wives and families that have been devoted and dedacated to them not to know?

Name: L&N WORKER E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 November 2011 SIR, I STARTED WITH THE OLD...L&N RAILROAD,,,,OVER THE YEARS IT CHANGED TO CSX.......FROM 1983--TILL MY RETIREMENT 2000,,,I WAS HARRASSED BY OFFICALS...CSX.....IF YOU WERE A OLD L&N,,YOU MEANT NOTHING...BUT,,NOW,,NOT ALL OFFICALS WERE LIKE THIS,,JUST SOME,,, MY BOSS WAS A SCL MAN,,,,,I REPORTED BROKE RAILS,,UNSAFE CONDITIONS,, THIS MEANT NOTHING,,,,I WOULD MAKE COPYS OF THIS ,,,I WAS ON SAFTY COMM,,,,88% OF MY FINDS,,,NEVER GOT REPAIRED...THROWED IN TRASH CAN.....I HAD NO ONE TO GO TO,,,YOU NEVER KNEW WHO WAS NOT YOUR FRIEND... AND,,FRA TEST FOR EMPLOYEES,,,,,WELL,,NO ONE EVER FAILED,,,,IF YOU FAILED,,WHICH ALOT DID,,,BY THE END OF DAY,,,YOU GOT A PASSING GRADE...IS THIS SAFE......????? Claims....legal clams always denined.!!! M.OF W UNION A JOKE.!!!!! CSX,,,,HAS ALOT OF NON UNION RAIL WORKERS...BUT,,,THEY SAID,,,THEY,,,CSX,,HAS STANDARDS OF HONOR.... THANK YOU L&N FOR ALOT OF GOOD YEARS,!!!!!!

Name: Jeff Middleton E-mail: Iluvsuckingcox.com Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 November 2011 ....my ex-wife hates me, my kids hate me, everyone hates me. The only pleasure I get in life anymore is firing employees in radnor yard especially if they are black. Pete Burris can't do anything about me because he is scared of me. The unions can't do anything with me because.....well because the unions can't do anything about anything anymore. So fair warning....if you want to keep your job with Csx, stay away from my yard or me and my big ass buffalo head will come down on you whenever and however I want......especially if you are black.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 November 2011 Hey Tim: It's tough when that happens...every one has had it happen several times. Wait until they come back and take a year of your lunch minutes away...of course they could always charge you with stealing time! So has bad at it seems,it can get worse!

Name: Tim E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 November 2011 I'm new to CSX and joined with an open mind. Ignoring all the slander and moaning from the old heads about CSX. But now I am starting to truly see this company for what it is. Here is the latest way that CSX has screwed me. According to the guarantee department back in July I busted my guarantee, but payroll didn't calculate it correctly. So I was paid my guarantee, well now 3 months later the guarantee department wants their money back. And of course payroll doesn't want to pay me the difference owed to me for busting my guarantee. So, one department is punishing me for another department's failure and payroll will not own up to it. Never mind that it is the holidays and winter is coming, not like I don't need to heat and feed my kids. I see why they have their HR in Florida, cause I am of the mind right now to do harm to them. Fuck you CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 October 2011 CSX is a Piss Poor Company to work for and I would NEVER EVER recommend anyone young or old Applying for a job with this company.From day 1 they try to Fire you and Hide in the weeds to Pray that they can catch you doing something wrong or at least Hope they Can LIE about something you did to get an O-test failure.The Huntington Division has to be the Worst division for Employees as Bobby Jack Frulla has a Hardon to Fire everyone that has on o-test failure.He and his Henchmen on the system could give a shit less about you,your safety or you feeding your family.He just wants to Fire EVERYONE I dont care if you have NEVER marked off,never had a Miscall,worked Everyday of the year even Holidays,Never had any Previous negative work history or attendance issues.The first time you get busted without your Studded Rubbers in the snow or Without your safety glasses your on the road to Termination in Bob Frullas mind he is out to Fire every employee he has.People like him are the ones who will Drive this company and companies like it into the Ground.No matter if how Stellar of an employee you are your still the Shitstain under the Officials and Bigwhigs shoesoles.You can never be a good enough employee and work hard enough for this company your just a # and if they dont like you for any reason there are schmucks waiting in line to replace you.

Name: Occupy Wall Street E-mail: 1500to1earnings@rbarons.rr Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 October 2011 The occupy Wall Street protest is working. A vast majority understands that a democracy cannot sustain itself when CEO's are earning 2500% more than their lowest paid fellow employee!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 October 2011 About the clerk being hacked with fake e-mails: NO COMPUTER IS HACK PROOF. HOWEVER, A MORE LIKELY SCENARIO IS THAT SOMEONE GUESSED OR OBSERVED YOUR PASSWORD AND UTILIZED IT FROM EITHER A WORK COMPUTER OR A HOME COMPUTER THAT HAS ACCESS TO CSX. GENERALLY SPEAKING, A NON OBVIOUS PASSWORD WITH A GREATER MIX OF LETTERS AND NUMBERS IS A WISE CHOICE. IF YOUR NAME IS KERMIT, AND YOUR WIFE'S NAME IS PIGGY, TRYING KERMIT1 WOULD BE A GOOD GUESS, WITH PIGGY1 AS THE NEXT CHOICE.THIS CAN BE MADE MORE DIFFICULT BY CHANGING TO !KERmIT!841 (NOT 1234)OR WHATEVER IS ALLOWED THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER (SO YOU DON'T WRITE IT DOWN AND TAPE UNDER THE DESK)AND YET NOT BE TOO OBVIOUS TO OTHERS. AND OF COURSE, SOOO MANY PEOPLE THINK SUPERSTUD69 OR SIMILAR IS A HIGHLY INNOVATIVE NAME ONLY THEY WOULD THINK OF.just fyi.

Name: RealVet E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 October 2011 Mr. Ian - you are an idiot. You can't even get Monte's number right. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. LMAO at you dumbass. Maybe you can put some movement sensors on that rock you live under so when someone lifts it you can crawl deeper under it. What a poser.

Name: RealVet E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 October 2011 Hey Mr. Ian Murphy, You are a poser and a loser. A quick google of your name shows what you are about. How about you just change your log on name to Convict? How about SEAL Imposter? I am thinking you just be the POS that you are and flush yourself.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 September 2011 If Pete Burrus was a descent human being maybe the good lord would have blessed him with a normal child.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 September 2011 i wasnt coming on here to complain , but just checking on here to see if this is a problem system wide or just a local problem.all the days are blocked, they are not taken. they were alotting us 1 per day.up to the first week of september,they were in there.the local chairman already knows about the problem and says its in the laps of the general commitee.so its in the unions hands and has been for 2 weeks now with no results.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 September 2011 has anyone in any other terminal or division have there daily vacation days blocked out like on the albany division? jacksonville blocked them out due to a "man power shortage". i was under the impression that i was allowed to take 1 week of daily vacation days under the terms of the contract.as far as i know there is no small print in there stating as "there must be sufficent man power to take vacation days". i guess csx makes up there own rules that seems to suit there needs and wont honor agreements they sign. its in the union hands and im not getting my hopes up they will fix the problem! or maybe they will , like they took care of this absentee policy!!! im sure they will go after personal days next and the union will let them get away with it without a fight as they normaly do. wow i thougt it couldnt get worse, i guess i was wrong!!!!

Name: Did you read? E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2011 Did you all read the great article about CSX in this past issue of TRAINS Magazine? Sure seems like a company thats moving for the better. Micheal Ward is doing a great job running the company. So why the need for such a negetive website?

Name: retired E-mail: fitzgerald ga Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 September 2011 when a person marks off for anything for 24 hrs it is impssible to get charged one day off the only way to do this is you must stay up and call in at 001 that day and on the same day call back in before midnight 2400 if you donot then the r.r. csx will get you for two days csx has been doing this forever. if you mark off at just say 2345 and the next morning mark up at 0015 whick is 30 mins. you will be charged with two days gurantee. csx uses this for their benefit to charge you witn two days. no need to try getting your local or general chairman to help they are not working for you just themselves/the the 24hrs off for one day just will not work you have to mark off and then mark up on the same day or else lose 2 days gurantee.the good old U T U used to work for you now in this day and time you work for them to get rich and sell you out. HANCOCK i know you are enjoying your retirement with all your deals with C S X.

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 A strike at least 2 days could seriously disrupt Railroad operations and could restore a "little" credibility in--international, general, and local leadership. The recently ratified UTU agreement is nothing but comparing apples to oranges over healthcare cost. The healthcare cost could easily be absorb by the 20-fold pay increases to Railroad executives over the past few years when wages were going in opposite directions. The membership got looted of leadership during the times of international (from both unions) indiscretions and the carriers took advantage of that and now the carriers is taking advantage of the current political leadership crisis. Once again: The combined accumulated wealth of the top CEO's is over 1 BILLION DOLLARS. Why can't that be exploited when negotiating a contract? That's enough money to pay for all the employee contributions for the next 30 years. TE&Y members working in a demanding hazardous environment of train operations should be compensated--not degraded as a normal occupational hazard! Use your unique skills as leverage; not as a submission to Robber Barons! May God bless the family of the conductor killed in a switching accident reported today by: UTU.org.

Name: Joe T. Plummer E-mail: rrstrike.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 Imminent strike looming for at least one day....In the mean time; take all pit stops needed for personal health! Bring back the good old days of unity and trumping greed!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 September 2011 still waiting on my pay

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 September 2011 Lay-Off restrictions: A "day" constitute a 24 hour continuous time period....If your union allows that to be cut in half; you need stronger leadership. Lay-off issues seems to be the prevailing problems for most of the complainers. You all are pissing in the wind if you don't change leadership. One less hired American is an additional thousands into the pockets of the Robber Barons! America is a great country with doctors and lawyers on both sides of the isle!

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 September 2011 "Labor Day" should be change to "Corporation Day." Infowars.com

Name: Truths E-mail: Hoffas411@hotmail.com Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 September 2011 I am extremely surprised that no one mentioned the want to be President Mighty pete burris? He makes his own rules, because he THINKS....daddy has his back...awee..but this is not so. Burris is a little man, with no disregard for the men who work hard, and he has been transferred many times, due to the fact, he has made many MANY CSX Conductors, Engineers, even officials HATE him to the point of endangerment. What a worm~ So now he hides ...so he thinks in Nashville Tn...and YES I know the addy haha, hiding from all those he is firing without cause in Evansville, In. However to those of you who are enduring this little piece of work, good news is on the way, he is ON the way OUT! His antics are costing the company THOUSANDS, and we all know, CSX, does not like loss of production, down time, and loss of revenue....so chins up guys and gals...soon you will be rid of satan and he WILL KNOW the word......... YOUR FIRED! Defination:the most hated man on the csx railroad- pete burris Urban Dictionary!

Name: Jimmy E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 September 2011 Hello I got 15 years of service on the railroad and currently on the BNSF. I got my first permanent disability check due to a heart condition not related to work. I thought I would get extra for my Boy 12 and Girl 8 but it's not showing on the deposit. Are we supposed to get extra for the kids under 18? I was reading through some of the posts and thought you guys should know =D Thanks guys! Jimmy

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 August 2011 Isnt it nice working weekends for straight pay, our union fore fathers, would roll in their grave if they knew it had came to this. Way to go CSX, you have beaten the unions.

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: ill gotten gains Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 August 2011 Accumulated wealth of top Railroad Executives: James A. Young...$500,000,000.00 = shares held at 554,209 Do the math on the following...need more interaction from viewers. Michael J. Ward...252,675 shares Charles W Moorman...206,382 shares Matthew K. Rose...(BNSF) private company but estimated wealth $200,000,000.00 Sorry for the ones not listed! They haven't reached the $100,000,000.00 yet! Majority of the wealth was accumulated during the last decade while trying to maintain "deregulation." How many friends do you have furloughed and have lost jobs to sub-contractors at the CEO's expense? Si! Source: Yahoo Finance (company symbol) "Insider Roster."

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 August 2011 "Intimidated no more; Libyans (Americans) end Gaddafi's (Corporate America's) rule!" Media

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 August 2011 when cell phones got banned? the dispatching went to hell! you figure it out yet? rotflmao! its not in Chicago budget to run things right! they cant take care of their own? much less look out for all the crews coming into Chicago? it might affect their bonus? cabs yup the kids are still waiting up to 90 minutes for a ride? not in all cases! so? when ya get stickman? go restricted speed a very safe speed at all times okay? get it? slow is safe? safe is good! watch out when doubling up in cabs! its your ass in court if ya get in an accident? especially if four or more are in the cab ! SO KEEP DOING FAVORS , SCREW YOURSELF AND YOUR FELLOW MAN? STAY BUDDY BUDDY WITH THE BOSSES? KEEP THAT BONUS GOING INTO THEIR POCKETS?

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 August 2011 Corporate CEO's....Be a patriot! Give-up your ill-gotten gains through fraud, deceit, union payoffs, lobbying politicians, corporate welfare, and greed. A "democracy" as we know it; cannot sustain such corporate malfeasance and expect to survive! "Ten million dollars is better in the hands of 100 Americans than 1 corporate CEO." Ralph Nader

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 August 2011 Retired. Got really involved when a national contract was settled and past claims where settled for an average of $1500 per member while the Local Chairman got $7500 and worked half the time during that period. Theses claims were from certain incentives allowed for substandard locomotive conditions and not allowed to eat after 5 hours on duty. The LC was involved in safety programs passing-out heat stroke pamphlets in December. While 125 members got $6000 less in back claims. That difference of 125 x $6,000 ($750,000.00) is saved for the company and tacked on to the CEO' salary including stock options. There's nothing magical about railroad CEO's innovations after two hundred years--just fine a Local Chairman who will sell-out his members of 125 for $6000 a pop so he (LC) can get $7500. I'm not suggesting that all LC's are corrupt--but repeat the same process at say 200 terminals nationwide; do the math and maybe that will help you understand why CEO's salaries and options are up 20-fold the last 15 years. Everyone wants to complain about the carriers. It's your union bosses plain and simple--from top to bottom. Oops! Without explanation; the carrier quietly paid an average of $3700 more to each (125) member without (accounting oversight)"fault!" 2002. The meaning of "cognitive dissonance" should be read and understood!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 August 2011 Ben, Nice post. They never have paid a claim that was not submitted. Many never submit until after the fact. Hey man I have done that 50 times and never got a dime. OOPS forgot to file the claim, but now want the result. Oh well life go's on in a very wonderful way.

Name: Bro. Ken Knuckles E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 09 August 2011 They never paid a claim that wasn't submitted. They never settled a declined claim that wasn't appealed. Know your agreement, sumbit your claims, and if they are declined, turn them over to your local chairman for appeal. Then stay on top of him to make sure he does his job. Just remember, when you submit a claim, you are the "moving party." As such, it is incumbent on you to provide ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO PROVE YOU CLAIM, not just the basics. It's your money, make the effort, don't just go through the motions and expect miracles. A poorly submitted claim cannot be collected. Just a little advise from an old fart who has collected thousands in claims over my past 33 years at CSX. Bro. Ken Knuckles

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 05 August 2011 I think I got a job at the Baltimore Coal Pier, in Curtis Bay MD. Can anyone tell me if this place is as bad as everyone says it is. This is a tough decision, because I have another job making more money offered to me.

Name: Cotton E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 30+ years Posted: 03 August 2011 I am so happy my time is up ! Was it worth puttin 30 + years ? Better than social unsecurity . Hope y'all are havin fun

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 July 2011 does anyone know if CSX has done anything about the drug problems at the baltimore coal pier.

Name: Safety First in Indy? E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 July 2011 CSX has helped make the streets of Indianapolis less safe by allowing Track Inspector Adam "A-Crash" Flowers to return to work this week. He was seen trolling around Hawthorn in his conrail coupe. He said his dad and Ralph pulled some strings and favors to get him back to work and he even had help getting his driver's license reinstated. I guess it helps if your daddy is a union rep. It is another classic case of how CSX's rules and policies are this way for certain people and another way for the others. These favors/strings pulled for Mr. Flowers only weakens the union since it's obvious even though we pay our dues, we all do not get the same representation. Several people are wondering how and why he was allowed to return to work.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 July 2011 fucking cry babies.......why dont you guys just stick it right in their fucking ass to get yours....thats what i do.....knocking down 100k a year

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 July 2011 The Union at the railroad will never be strong, unless someone educates 80-90% of its workforce to stop voting for republicans. Just read the facts people. Republicans have already been responsible for many RIGHT TO WORK states. They hate unions and will do anything in there power to bust a union, much like CSX management. So stop listening to your NON UNION bosses and do what is right for your much corrupted union at the railroad.

Name: just plain krazy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 July 2011 just wondering y and the hell the men cant stick together. the unions do nothing. the bonus the conductors were supposed to get (by what was said in the contract) on the first of july was pushed back to the 15th without the union letting anyone know till the day before.....all claims whether good or not are being deniedand i know the only guys that are getting thier claims paid are taking them to arbitration themselves..... ive been told stories of how combining the UTU and BLE has fell thru in the past but maybe it is time to try again. im tired of being screwed by this company, its time for both crafts to come at the comany with one united union.

Name: AWP E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 July 2011 Added to article below about Mineral Springs collision: Speed on impact 48 MPH.

Name: AWP E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 July 2011 In response to the rear end collision in Mineral Springs, NC on May 24, 2011 that killed the train crew: I work in the Atlanta Division on the A&WP and regularly speak with crews from Abbeville, SC about the rear end collision. I spoke with a man who has seen the download. The engineer complied to the Approach Signal according to the operating rules. The crew then came back out on the power as if they were displayed a clear signal at the intermediate siganl after the approach signal. The engineer blew the crossing a few hundred feet prior to the collision and turned the bell off just seconds before. They obviously were awake. This same employee told me that he has come out onto the main in that area on a short local train and not show up on the dispatchers board due to the tracks not shunting. Is there a known problem in this area? Were they running on a clear signal? We will probably never know cause CSX says the loco-cam was not functioning. Its funny how if its something that can prove your guilt they always can get the video but if its a video that can clear your name then it never seems to work. Go figure. I heard the NTSB took over the investigation so maybe we will get to the bottom of it. Big maybe.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 July 2011 my daddy didnt work here you spoke that well, I am in about the same boat you are. This place is full of journeyman of nothing. poor training and only thing they know is strictly memorization. Most employees are also job scared. Because no one else would hire them anywhere else.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 July 2011 Everyone knew the circumstances when they took the job offer. On-call 24/7. I talk to guys everyday who say, "man I can't believe they called me on my rest, thats crazy, man," or "man, i told you they would turn that claim down!" (However, we do have a major issue in this area that needs to be addressed. Its bad enough to work the hours we do but then you gotta fight for your money. Its not right.) Again, you knew what you were getting in when you accepted the job and when you voted in your union representative even if he is a dirty bastard. I feel like a shrink instead of an engineer. All the bullcrap I listen to everyday up and down the rails from the conductor or the guy thats in the yard office whose been here 40 yrs talking about how he hates working for the railroad. Nobody is holding a gun to your head making you go to work. If you can't handle the requirmemnts for employmet then go work at wal-mart or something. Oh yeah, wait a minute. Where else are you going to make $100K+ year with a GED or high school diploma? You're not! So step-up, shut-up, get out or retire.

Name: CSX E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 July 2011 Ryan Have that added to your FELA suit against the UP. Contact your attorney if you haven't already. Once in court jurors don't like to hear about employers that fire someone in retaliation for an injury. It's also against the law for the railroad to retaliate against someone with an on duty injury who filed a case under FELA.

Name: 00h323 E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 July 2011 Im sick of our general chairman in the utu signing off on territory that is new to us to be part of our assigned territory so we dont get code 75's but the engineers still get them because the blet wont sign off on it being their assigned territory. What is the general chairman getting in return for signing off so fast? We started going over to a new siding on the inrd that we never have been to then the next week the utu says thats now part of our territory its 5 miles from what was our assigned territory

Name: Ryan E-mail: uprr74@yahoo.com Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 July 2011 I dont work for CSX I worked for Union Pacific Railroad as a welder for 14 years hope you guys dont mind me posting my story.I was hurt on the job had to have back surgery, put on a APPROVED MEDICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE by the UP.Then when they got notice from my lawyer they held a investigation. Then said I broke rule 14 witch states "Absence from assigment without proper authority for more than 30 days. Then the notification of discipline assessed reads "It has been determined you failed to provide just cause for your continued absence from assignment without authority.Therefore,you will be considered as having resigned and your name removed from the roster per Rule 14 of the Agreement between the Company and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way representing your craft or class.Can some1 tell me how you get fired while on a APPROVED MEDICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE!You cant spell stupid with out UP!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 July 2011 To Doesn't Matter: You are exactly right! CSX is a shit railroad, piss poor management with continuous unethical behavior. Get out if you can, this railroad isn't worth the time that you give them or the money that they steal from you!

Name: Ralph Whitaker Fan Club E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 July 2011 I remember some other guys in the Indiapolis MOW department who received extra special treatment; Terry Stewart; a B&B crane operator who can't run a crane but has a company pickup and his crane is always in need of repair and he always has an excuse why he can't use the crane. Dirty Dave Bales ran over a utility pole in Avon Yards. Ralphy boy swept that under the rug. Dirty Dave would just hang out after hours for the OT and he did get with it. Mike "MB" Fulp ; the once pride and joy of Dan Justice at Hawthorne. MB Fulp was caught several times by Ralph and Dano for padding the payroll and screwing off. MB was even caught borrowing a CSX welder truck to use the torch to cut up some scrap metal at his house. Ralph and Dan just let that slide. It wasn't until MB Fulp was caught by the FRA for lying about inspecting track when he was really at home that Ralph and Danny-boy threw him to the wolves. Rick Perry; He was promoted to ADE of bridges as a result of putting an extension ladder against a bridge in the middle of a busy road without baricades cones,etc. Needless to say a car came by, hit the ladder and injured not-to-bright Rick. Sam Spears; Ricky made him a bridge manager even though there were two far more qualified black men who applied for the job. I suppose being kicked out of the NAVY for being AWOL too many times and being on the drug/alcohol rehab program at CSX made him the best choice in Ricky's wandering eyes. Josh Huron; He was told by the Roadmaster and the ADE to drive a pickup when he didn't have a driver's license. He followed orders and was later fired for his efforts. We hope that J-ville does give the enema to the engineering department in Indy and the GL. Ralph Whitaker should go back to being a cook.

Name: Doesn't Matter E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 July 2011 Boy am I glad that I don't work for the railroad anymore. What a shit hole of human misery. You poor bastards that are stuck in the sewer to no where, I pray for you every night that the devil don't come and suck the rest of your heart and soul out. Everytime I hear an engine whistle, I think to myself "there goes the suck ass railroad". Maybe someday God will come down and pluck you all out of your misery. Hallolouja!

Name: Max Dugan E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 June 2011 To Joe Preston Fan Club Re: Adam Flowers vehicle accident, Indy, IN. Our ADE; Ralph Whitaker didn't care for the track inspector at Hawthorn at the time so he threatened to fire him or suspend him if he didn't bid out. That guy bid out and Adam Flowers bid the Hawthorn track inspector job in. Ralph and Dano knew about Adam's driving history ( past and current ) and told him "to be careful". About 4 weeks ago Adam Flowers was playing with his phone on Southeastern avenue and rear-ended a Grandmother and her grandaughter sending both to the hospital. Adam's license was suspended at the time and was given a multitude of tickets. The company had Adam change his story from using his phone to reaching for a spitcan. I believe it's a Rooster-Fish company policy to NOT use tobacco products in a CSX vehicle. The GL boys waited 3 weeks to put Adam out of service pending an investigation or more like a "sweetheart deal". We are all wondering how Mike Flowers and Ralph Whitaker are going to get their boy out of this one?

Name: matt sanders and matt stamper E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 June 2011 Alright, so we finally got a hold of Mrs. Ward. Mr. Stamper got her in the ass which is what he is use to and since I am now in Indiana, I fucked Michael in the ass!! Good day everyone!!! Oh, I am sorry, and the "KISS ASS, NOSY BASTARD" Steve Crain took a dildo in his ass at the same time!!!LLLMMMMMAAAOOO Hey Steve, you still going to Pennmary every Sunday just toi get away from the wife/hemroid?? Just curious!!:0)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 June 2011 Yep look at the new UTU. They are so proud of this. Makes me want to ask why? Guess everyone is happy, making good money. So be it---- I have spent my time preaching, heck I lost, let em pay for nothing to the Union and pay up more for red board insurance, that is worthless.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 June 2011 Check out the "new look" http://utu.org/ It's kinda like a big box store...just when you learn where everything is, they rearrange the whole store!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 June 2011 Goob Things changed when time tickets went to computers no more local payroll clerks. One issue is local management doesn't control approving or denying claims. That took away a lot of their leverage in a pinch. Claims were simpler years ago both sides honored the confines of the agreements. I don't remember filing a lot of claims back in the '70s thru early '90s when I did they were paid. Most of them were runarounds they don't even have it anymore the unions agreed to letting a person claim their spot back on the board. If a yardmaster or trainmaster wanted a crew to do work outside of their job assignment all one had to do was make mention that a time claim was involved back then 95% of the time they would back off. Today if someone questions the yardmaster or trainmaster these people like to threaten insubordination. I had a few shouting matches with YM's & TM's reminding them it's my obligation to inform them of work agreement violations with filing a claim. That's where the trouble becomes escalated with TM's who were hired off the street instead of coming out of the crafts. Once they were informed it's their decision if they want the work done one can not be insubordinate. I'm still waiting on payment for a lot of claims that were filed and denied.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 June 2011 To RRJ, I know this may sound old and stupid, however when I was there I never forwarded any claim to the LC. (I did get paid for a few), but only made a claim and the union took it from there. The local chairman got the denial, (as I did) and filed it with like claims, and that was it. I received several small checks from the RR for the first year after resignation. They were forwarded by the USPS to my new address. No telling how many were returned after the USPS stopped forwarding my mail.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2011 Anyone hear if they are going to call back employees in Evansville, IN?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 June 2011 Terry Carter, you are a wuss for not putting your real ID...

Name: Baltimore Oriole E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 June 2011 WARD HAS SOME BALTIMORE BUSINESS TACTICS IN HIS WEAPONS AGAINST UNIONS AND ANYONE UNDER HIM. HE REAPS MORE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ FOR HIM AND A FEW OTHERS. DUMB DOWN THE BUSINESS AND HIRE CHEAPEST LABOR AND MAKE THEM WORK TWICE AS HARD NEVER ALLOW THEM A DAY OFF THAT IS WHY INGRAM, BROWN AND THE NAZI SOUTHERN IDIOTS CAME TO DO THEIR DIRTY DEEDS. SCAB OUT ANYONE THEY CAN AND SELL OFF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 June 2011 You have to be talking about penalty claims. Actual pay shortages are easy to fix that can be done on the CSX Gateway without even talking to anyone. Claims are another matter some they pay some they don't it's always been a game. With denied claims 85% don't forward them to the LC for handling that works to CSX's advantage. One must never include penalty claims as expected income they will be sorely disappointed. Even before I retired CSX took authorizing penalty claims away from local management it's now under payrolls control.

Name: Mark Harmon E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 June 2011 To start: I am a very hard worker and took pride in my new job as a CSX Conductor. I spent $10,000 to qualify and get this job. It is common practice for CSX to deny pay. Just in June and July of 2006 I was denied $2,000.00 of my actual work pay plus $50 or so every paycheck! Engineers and Conductors must prove that they have done a particular job to get paid. They will take a job here or there and deny it so you will have to go through the union reps to try and get it. This overwhelms the reps. Along with this tactic, CSX doesn't want any employee to stay with them very long because you hire out at 70% of pay. Every year you go up by 5% to eventually be at a regular workers pay. YOU pay for your $7,000.00 Conductor course plus living expenses to get the job. So when you become to much of a payroll risk they hope you give up and quit. They will run you ragged and not pay you. It is to their benefit. CSX wants low pay employees only and will use many measures to make you want to quit. I had enough after 2 1/2 years of this robbery.

Name: been quiet long enough wife! E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 May 2011 I am the wife of a Csx employee. He works as a conducter. I have witnessed a perfectly well adjusted college educated black man over the course of 8 years become a different person not happy with major depression; hypertention; anxiety; insomnia; bipolor; Adhd ; nervous stomach my list can go on. Yes he has a diagnosis for 4 out of the many. But his work schedule is so erratic he misses several dr. apptmnts. His only comfort is food. He has balooned to a 70 lb weight gain. This job is killing my man! Harrassment. Intimadation. Bullying. UNETHICAL. if one gets injured .U are on the Hit List to harrass and watch an employee work for an entire shift. If you are confident and secure with yourself U bet Mangmnt will try to break your manhood down. Thats my story. TO SURVIVE U MUST PRAY TO THE MOST HIGH GOD THAT IS IN HEAVEN. Praise JAH! I am behind my man all the way seeing that he is getting the medical attention he needs. csx has good medical insurance.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 09 May 2011 A person who has been dismissed from CSX is no longer an employee at that time until an arbitrator makes their decision. They are under no obligation to CSX. How can the company file additional charges and command the person to attend a hearing when that person is dismissed?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 May 2011 Mr. Ward and stockholders, D.J. Murphy; Director of Operations Support continues to send certified letters to a former employee commanding him to attend a "CSX hearing" at his own expense. A. The person doesn't work at CSX anymore. B. The person just doesn't have the money to travel at whim on a short notice at his own expense. He's unemployed, remember? C. Mr. Murphy & Co. is wasting the stockholder's money. The postage cost so far for the various certified letters is around $30. plus the cost of paying a clerk to type the letters and take them to the post office. The person could be doing something else instead; Remember, the person they are sending the letters to has already been dismissed. D. The former employee was "railroaded" by just asking for the racial slurs, sexual slurs,butt/crotch grabbing and harassment to stop.

Name: Brian Clark E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 May 2011 I was being harassed all the time by fellow employees; a couple of genius' started rumors that I was gay with the supervisor, Amish, put up with racial comments about my wife and son, and had a difficult time usung the CSX radio because one of the guys had a recording he would play over the radio while I was trying to get track and time. Other things were done as well but it's a long list. The supervisor and the foreman must have thought this was all cute since nothing was done about it but laugh. When this all came to light, there was a hearing for me and 2 of the guys harassing me. I was fired for using a cellphone at work that I was paid $35. per month to use. ???? The other 2 guys went back to work even though 1 was on probation for causing an accident to another employee earlier. Hearsay and who you know goes a long way at CSX.

Name: Troy B & Lee H E-mail: BLE532@msn.com Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 03 May 2011 HEY RICHMOND, REMEMBER JG MOLTER, SAFETY SUCK? HE IS RETIRED AND NOW SPENDS HIS DAYS ON CSX-SUCKS.COM....HE MISSED SUCKING OFF THE TRAINMASTER'S FOR SAFETY MONEY AND OVERTIME, SO MUCH, THAT WHEN HE RETIRED HE HEARD ABOUT THIS WEBSITE. HE THOUGHT "CSX SUCKS" WAS A WEB SITE WHERE HE COULD HOOK UP WITH CSX MANAGERS AND SUCK THEM OFF, JUST LIKE HE DID EVERYDAY AT FULTON. WE STILL GOTTA WORK OUT HERE IN THIS SHITTY WORLD THAT HIS GENERATION LEFT US, AND HE HAS THE BALLS TO COMMENT OF WHAT OUR JOBS ARE LIKE. MOLTER ONE WORD FOR YOU: "R-E-T-I-R-E" WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 April 2011 J.V. "PISSYPANTS" MILLER SELKIRK NY SOMEBODY PUNCHED THAT PIECE OF CRAP J.V. AND HE PISSED HIS PANTS AAAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 April 2011 RETIRED NOW, HAD A 36 YEAR CAREER. IT WAS MOSTLY MISERABLE. FOR THE LAST 10 OR 12 YEARS OF MY CAREER I REALIZED THAT CSX IS JUST A JOB. DON'T TRY TO MAKE A SILK PURSE OUT OF A SACK OF PIG DUNG. JUST A JOB, IT WILL NEVER CHANGE, JUST GO TO WORK, & GO HOME, GET YOUR MONEY & GO HOME & FORGET THAT CSX EVEN EXIST UNTIL YOU DRIVE BACK ON THE PROPERTY. IF YOU ARE IN LOWER MANAGEMENT, YOU ARE SCREWED. IF YOU TRY TO MAKE RAILROADING MORE THAN JUST A JOB, CSX WILL CONSUME YOU. THE RAILROAD IS NOT YOUR LIFE. YOUR LIFE IS YOUR FAMILY & YOUR HOME.. IT IS JUST A JOB.... YES, IT DOES SUCK.. GET THROUGH IT, YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE RETIREMENT.. THERE ARE 6 SATURDAYS & 1 SUNDAY EVERY WEEK.. THE RETIREMENT PLAN IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN SOCIAL SECURITY, IT WILL MAKE ALL OF THE LONG HOURS AND BEING AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY & MISSING MOST OF YOUR KIDS GROWING UP EVENTS WORTH IT, MAYBE EXCEPT FOR THAT MISSING THE KIDS THINGY, IT WILL BE WORTH YOUR WHILE. ALL OF THOSE CROSSING ACCIDENTS, I PERSONALLY WAS IN MORE THAN 60. SEEING PEOPLE CUT IN HALF, PEOPLE WITH THEIR HEADS CUT OFF, DEAD, BRAINS ON THE FRONT OF THE ENGINE. CRUSHED, DEAD BABIES & CHILDREN, SEVERED ARMS, LEGS, THE SMELL OF SOMEONES GUTS OPENED & FECAL MATTER, YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE SMELLS & SIGHTS. YOU WILL HAVE EARNED YOUR RETIREMENT. SO ENJOY IT. YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT... DID I SAY, "IT'S JUST A JOB."

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 April 2011 2010 FRA On Duty Fatalities - CSX Leads 753 Railroads http://csx-corruption.com/2010-fra-on-duty-fatalities-csx-leads-753-railroads/ Thanks to this sites administrator for helping distribute this information!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 April 2011 J.V. MILLER IS A LOSER RETARD. A TRAINEE KNOCKED HIM OUT A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. THIS GUY IS A PIECE OF S#*& IM SURE NOBODY DISAGREES.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 April 2011 ********** DATELINE----APRIL 11th 2011********** ********* NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY FINDS THAT THE LAWS OF GRAVITY DO NOT APPLY ON CSX TRANSPORTATION PROPERTY...... THE PLACE JUST SUCKS...... THAT IS ALL*******************************************

Name: terry E-mail: terrycarter5@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 April 2011 thanks for all the advice,, i have talked to someone ,,and i think we are going to move forward...and to prove i'm not joking C.S.X if your reading this , check my id h9367,,, now lets play

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 April 2011 why would anyone want to work at this sorry outfit, all of these stories are true on here, and I know they are. You people are being treated like slaves, anyone with any kind of trade or other skills, can make more money and be treated better. Everyone should write letters to your congress and let them know how crooked these so-called unions are. This is the most corrupt bunch of shit that I have ever seen. With a lot of people writing these letters, we can unite and stick together, you can basically bypass your crooked union and unite and conquer these crooks. And that my friends is forming a real UNION.

Name: cater E-mail: terrycarter5@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 March 2011 i'am lookin for a good Discrimination lawyer please e-mail me at terrycarter5@yahoo.com

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 March 2011 fonzie First off no need posting on every thread. Secondly you're screwed maybe a shortline will hire you. I doubt any class 1 would give you another chance. Being furloughed is at times a way of life on the railroads.

Name: fonzie E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 March 2011 I worked for csx 2 years ago due to being layed off every other week i decided not to go back after i begged a diffrent company to hire me back for the secomd time due to the railroad layin me off To make a long story short i was sent a letter of termination in the mail sayin i didnt mark back up in the required time My craft was trains and engines I was thinking and wanting to get in a track gang would csx consider hiring me back? And would any other railroad hire me Or am i basically screwed for being terminated from csx With other railroad outfits? Any insite on this topic id greatly appricate it thanks ;]

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 March 2011 I'm saying nothing that hasn't been said many times already. Denied claims is plain theft. We all deal with it and our unions do nothing. I submit one or two valid claims per week. I always make sure to be very detailed in describing what happened and why I'm due. Every week its denied. So I turn it in to the l.c. and that's the end of that.in. 2010 I had two or three thousand in claims, this year its already much more.our union officials are no better than the company. I might as well go in the yard and work. Its less money but hardly no claims for Csx to deny.I'm ready to get out of the railroad or change crafts.this place had changed. When jobs become more available people will leave this sorry way of life. Its not worth it anymore.Csx pockets are bulging while they sit around and laugh about locking us into a five year contract. We will never make what the CN makes. Never.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 March 2011 Chuck Baker will burn in Hell someday. Wonder if he will still get joy out of hearing himself talk and patting himself on the back.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 March 2011 Who are you sending claim to? It must be approved by roadmaster, division engineer of track, and possibly union rep before its sent to csx payroll for reimbursement. If done correct you should be reimbursed in less than a month, and it's a blind deposit with no pay statement sent to you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 March 2011 10 months ago i was told to use my personal vehicle to go to a D.O.T. phyiscle which is required yo keep my hydraulic license and my C.D.L. current.When i reterned to my West Springfield MA. headquarters i submitted copies of all paperwork as well as an expense report for mileage To this date after re-submittal in person, faxed, re faxed,7 -8 100% professional e-mails requesting re-imbursment the managers of C.S.X have still not made good on there promise to re pay. Iam sorry to say that intimadation,derilection of duties bye managent is alive and well at CSX albany devision I guess at 38,000 employees if corperate rips each one for 35 bucks, thats a wopping 1330000.00 SHAME ON U CSX

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 March 2011 I still did not get a response. is this the Jeff M. at Jax. fl. ?If it is he sure is a A--H---.I could write a book about this Jeff .

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 March 2011 Sure there are a lot that want to work for the RR, and they are free to apply. You may have a future hear after HS.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 28 February 2011 The people on this site who don't like their jobs should quit. I am sure they are a lot of people would love to have their job.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 February 2011 ITS A MIRACLE!!!!! I got some claims paid from 2007!! I had to burn a few personal days to get over the shock! Now lets see how long I get to enjoy that extra money before they want it back!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years Posted: 30 January 2011 Yeah you're right about Jeff. I often wonder why he doesn't just put a bullet in his head since everyone including his wife and kids hate him. But then after that all he has to look forward to is burning in hell.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 January 2011 Jeff Middleton will burn in hell one day!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 January 2011 I am the wife. I am not worried about him traveling 2 hrs away or whatever to work. He can't get no where he has called everyone he is locked out to even make bid on jobs because he cannot get to the screen to make them because of a time ticket that he can't put in because he was not cleared to qualify even though CMC Edwards told him he was on the next train to qualify and even got called by CSX Caller. The time ticket was from December 30th and he has been calling the Road Foreman and Crew Mangagement about it for 3 weeks on his vacation. It is still the same. Crew Mangagment is not helping so he can't even make bids on the jobs by tonight so he can get his pilot and work. So don't tell me that is right. The roadforeman was in and out of the hospital the week of Christmas and New Years. So that has been a problem as well. He has called people every freaken day to try to get this taken care of. He is getting the run around. So I am a bitter wife. I can't get a freaken job because of the railroad schedule and paying childcare. It won't be worth it. But this started when they switched his zone and he is the one that is getting shafted while the other people are still getting paychecks. So screw all of you who think that is right. I have all of our phone records and can prove to you freaken people showing how many calls we made to Edwards, Lampka, and Tom Flanery even on their direct lines and how many times they called back. They only time my husband ever talked too these guys is when they answered there phone except the one time Edwards called him and said he was going to be on the next train. He can't work because of stuff he can't take care of and the people who can won't return phone calls or won't help.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 January 2011 This goes to RRJ, how pathetic is your retired life. That you come on here and bash guys for complaining about their job on a site called CSX-SUXS.com are you really that dense? Get off your high horse telling guys how bad it was back in your time, yea real HARD TIMES. You guys partied at your job, you had 5 guys to a crew, you had cabooses, the engineers and fireman took turns running, because either too drunk or too tired, you had all kinds of arbitraties, that the guys before you fought for and you guys SOLD!!!!!! Lets see all the times you guys FUCKED UP running a switch or sideswipping cars and the TRAINMASTERS let you walk, but burned us for the same thing. So how about you go feed the pigeons in the park or go to the seniors club, and let the GROWNUPS ie. present railroaders come on here and BITCH! YOU JUST SIT AT HOME AND WATCH OPRA, while we pay your railroad retirement check, you useless old fuck company kiss ass!!!! Boo hoo guys come on here and bitch about the company I USED TO WORK FOR!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 January 2011 Yardmaster, My husband is one of the 5% that you claim that really never complained and went to work etc. Hardly ever marked off for any reason. He is being raked through the coals because of someone changing his zone almost three years ago which was supposedly illegal when someone changed it. They switched it back to the first zone and he lives 2hrs and 15 minutes away from the other terminal they are forcing him up too. Well since December 10th he has not really worked because he has been trying to get a hold of people and people are giving him the run around. He did get a hold of someone who actually moved him from the layoff board that he was on to the other saying he was an Engineer Qualifier now. Then was ordered to take a train the next day which would of been December 30th-31st, which was great until he went to put his code 17 in and it said he was not setup to qualify. He took all three weeks of his vacation so he could get paid. Now he is off vacation and still not been paid for those two days and can't even make bids because he still is not activated as an Engineer on the Bid screen so he can take and be paid the one trip with a pilot. Even though he has not been to the other zone for 7 years. I can name all the people he has tried to get a hold of and we have all of our phone records showing all the calls he made he has made as many as 20 a day. Leaving message after message and still there has not been a returned phone call. He called three people today and not one has returned a phone call Lampka and Edwards are two of them. Everyone keeps rubbing the stupid agreement in his face, but that person should not of changed it three years ago. Next week on Feb. 1st he can change zones, but that does not help the situation we are in now we have bills and noone wants to help. Someone is investigating it and I am hoping they come up with some answers soon. Cause this will be week 4 of him not getting paid besides his vacation. It is pretty sad we were actually going to get to go to the beach this year and nope thank you CSX. WE have 4 children and christmas was a disaster because of the stress luckily christmas presents were bought. I don't work because of the railroad schedule. We have no idea where to go from here. The Unions are not helping either. IT SUCKS!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 January 2011 What A Shit Pit!!!!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 January 2011 Hey Friend: What lease are you talking about and why would CSX share it with you?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 January 2011 having trouble getting copy of lease agreement from csx railroad

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 January 2011 TO: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 January 2011 HERE WE ARE AGAIN! JANUARY, 2011 .......AND CSX STILL SUCKS!!!!! as fucking always NOTHING EVER CHANGES IN THIS CHEAP ASS OUTFIT. Cheap Scape eXpress doing business as the Cock Sucker eXpress MONEY BEING DENIED, SCREWED UP ATTENDANCE POLICY, HARASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION, LOW MORALE, PISS POOR MANAGEMENT. NAZI STYLE LEADERSHIP & ENFORCEMENTS BECAUSE THEY STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO RUN A COMPANY. Bunch of Dick Lickers collecting a Big paycheck and fucking T&E for anything and everything. MOST FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES ALWAYS STATE "OUR EMPLOYEES ARE OUR GREATEST ASSES" Wait for a takeover after a big disaster CSXT COULD NEVER STATE SUCH A LIE!

Name: sctrain E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 January 2011 Info on florence sc is it as bad as they say it is down there heard its bad place to work

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 January 2011 HERE WE ARE AGAIN! JANUARY, 2011 .......AND CSX STILL SUCKS!!!!! NOTHING EVER CHANGES IN THIS CHEAP ASS OUTFIT. MONEY BEING DENIED, SCREWED UP ATTENDANCE POLICY, HARASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION, LOW MORALE, PISS POOR MANAGEMENT. NAZI STYLE LEADERSHIP & ENFORCEMENTS BECAUSE THEY STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO RUN A COMPANY. MOST FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES ALWAYS STATE "OUR EMPLOYEES ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET" CSXT COULD NEVER STATE SUCH A LIE!

Name: ripped off E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 January 2011 ANGELA! Instead of doing a story on the 401k program, why dont you look into the reason why csx doesnt pay our legitimate claims. See how many people have been ripped off by the company. This is money that the company agreed to pay when they sat down with our unions and now refuse to pay. This is money that could be going into our 401k. Why dont you survey the real workers of the railroad. The ones out in the field busting their butts getting the trains together and getting the freight across the road. See how many have had hundreds of dollars denied them. Maybe thats why csx is having a record profit this year. They are saving millions in pay by stealing from the workers.

Name: Angela E-mail: angie.marek@dowjones.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2011 Hey everyone, I'm a business reporter working on a story for a national business magazine that looks at CSX's retirement 401(k) plan for workers, which has actually had big investment returns in recent years. I'm hoping to talk with a couple rank and file employees who can tell me a bit about their experience with the plan and whether it helped them make progress saving for retirement in recent years. If anyone is able to chat with me and share your story, I'd love to hear from you. E-mail me here (angie.marek@dowjones.com) and we can find a time to connect. Thanks so much, Angie

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 January 2011 i hope the fra reads this..... most of the engineers and conductors(80%or more) talk on their cell phones while running the train. they are also goin on internet sites on their phones as well during train operations. and the trainmasters call the conductors and or engineers and talk when they know the train is moving i see conductors kick locomotives on a regular basis nobody ever does a correct air brake test either. its a joke itll be funny when a key train derails because of these issues on csx trains

Name: ACD E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 January 2011 I don't visit this board often. But the GL GM is in trouble. Begining on the 9th the Indianapolis chief will gone. The work will be handed over to the East chief. (who will now be doing the work of 4 chief dispatchers) Everybody in the office is PISSED

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 January 2011 i think its high we start organizing a strike against the unions and csx. arent you tired of being treated like shit and the unions just letting csx have their way? marking off policies that havent changed in many many years now changed a couple time in a few months to cover their ass for lack of crews. stealing money from your paychecks almost daily, categorically declining legitimate claims without consideration. setting you up for failure with e-tests with penalties harsher than if an incident actually happened. etc, etc we are the ones who make the money and run the trains but are treated like the lowest life form while everybody above us reaps high bonuses. we are blamed because they cannot run trains. telling the public, the stockholders (which most of us are), the news outlets that they are hiring and furloughed people are all recalled. we have many many people on furlough that were never called. the hiring is more management, not train crews. management cannot run trains. oh? a strike doesn't do any good because the gov't will force us back to work? with all the national attention it WILL send a message to csx and the country.

Name: Fawghorn leghorn E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 January 2011 God, I love fat woman!! Happy new year everyone from the Orange Bowl!! I had a woman down here in Florida so big on New Years Eve, you could have stamped Happy New Year on her ass and flew her all over Miami Beach!!!!;0) All the more reason to stay away from drugs and alcohol boys!! Keep it on the rails and good luck in that shithole industry!!LLLMMAAOOOO LET'S GO HOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET'S GO HOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET'S GO HOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are going to whip Stanfords arse!!

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 January 2011 DENIED CLAIMS.... Has anyone else out there put in claims for jobs worked or miles traveled in the Nashville division and had them Denied? Reason I am asking???? I did and it only took one phone call from the Nashville Tm in the area I worked to get them paid. However,when I worked a job out of the same yard(but went to a different terminal) that was covered by a greatlakes division TM, not only was the claim denied but the Tm wasnt able to get it approved. I personally watched him email payroll approving the claim and know for a fact that he faxed all info they requested. They also have a copy of the hotel register I signed when I worked the job. When I approached the TM last week and told him they still havent paid me, he said..."You got to be kidding me! I don't know what else to do." I suggested he send a letter to Michael Ward and ask him why he's not allowed to take care of his people when he is a supervisor! It has been 5 months since I worked that job. So why is it that the nashville division TMs can make one phone call and get pay approved and the greatlakes Tms cant get squat?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 January 2011 don't expect to get paid for your rsia mandatory off time if you're on any extra list/board. it will be taken away from your guarantee

Name: onetwo E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 December 2010 thank you Lloyd

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 December 2010 CSXT aka donald trump railroad YOU'RE FIRED !!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 30 December 2010 CSX PROBABLY PUT THIS SITE UP THEMSELVES, SO AS TO LET THE INTELLECTUALS WHO POST HERE VENT OR JUST SOCIALIZE WITH ONE ANOTHER. THEY MUST GET QUITE A LAUGH AT THE RUN ON SENTENCES AND THE ATROCIOUS GRAMMER, LET ALONE THE MISSPELLED WORDS. YOU CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT CSX FROM NOW TILL DOOMS DAY AND REST ASSURED, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. IF ANYTHING, IT WILL GET MUCH WORSE FOR THE EMPLOYEES. THEY ARE YOUR SLAVE MASTERS. YOU HAVE PROSTITUTED YOURSELVES FOR THEIR SUB-STANDARD WAGES AND PLANTATION LIKE WORKING CONDITIONS. YOU ARE A POWERLESS, IGNORANT, BRAINWASHED CLASS OF SOCIETY ALLOWED TO EXIST FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SERVING THE GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS. SO DON'T GET ANY IDEAS ABOUT IMPROVING YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. BE CONTENT TO WATCH YOUR FOOTBALL GAMES AND DRINK YOUR BEER AND WATCH YOUR STANDARD OF LIVING DESTROYED. KEEP BUYING JAPANESE CARS AND CHINESE COMMUNIST MANUFACTURED GOODS. LET YOUR CHILDREN ACT AND DRESS LIKE INNER CITY CRIMINALS OR YOU CAN SEE THEM SENT OFF TO SOME UNDECLARED WAR TO BE KILLED OR DISABLED. I COULD GO ON BUT I KNOW MOST, IF NOT ALL OF YOU, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND ANY OF WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN TODAY.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 December 2010 Reply to: WHATSUP 3 words. Great Lakes Division Watch that place over the next week! Then watch it over the next 3-4 weeks. speaking hypothetically that place will.. implode [ɪmˈpləʊd] vb 1. (Physics / General Physics) to collapse or cause to collapse inwards in a violent manner as a result of external pressure the vacuum flask imploded 2. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) (tr) to pronounce (a consonant) with or by implosion Compare explode [from im- + (ex)plode]

Name: Santarail E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 23 December 2010 Nomo You're as full of you know what as a Christmas turkey, Youre jealous cause I make more money than you do. you wish you worked for CSX the greatest company in the world.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 December 2010 i think its time to call for the resignation of michael ward apparently he is blind to the fact he is losing untold millions of dollars because there isn't enough crews to run trains BUT he seems to think hiring more trainmasters and middle mismanagers(and i use that term loosely)(lets just call them stupidvisors since they know nothing about trains. think of the business that marketing could build if a railroad ran trains. think of all the overtime that could be saved in the blue palace if they didn't have to spend hours and hours searching hundreds of miles for rested crews. now where is that quality of life we've been told is out there? think of the customers who would be happy to do business with csx. now they're just happy if their cars shows up when they ordered them. think of all the bonus money that isn't making it into the pockets of the senior mismanagers. although they get more than enough as it is. maybe thats the problem... wouldn't the shareholders and wall street love to know that all the people were not called back from furlough as stated publicly and the ones that were, are probably going to get cut again in january as the csxt decides to go the unproductive route and use one man remote operations, and consolidate yardmasters to running 2 or more rail yards yea business is not all that good mr. shareholder. a railroad that doesn't want to run trains, but is happy to take taxpayer money to fund its operations, and piss on union members who actually make the money and deliver the goods for the country but have to cover their ass every minute for fear of being run off for not finding a piece of paper in a switch point which caused no damage and where no on got hurt and god forbid your call off sick more than twice in a 4 week period for which you don't get paid anyway, so they can use you as a scapegoat for not being able to run a train instead of hiring more people. lets not forget to cut people off for making guarantee, which no one does because they make more than guarantee...its the shortage of switchmen causing csx to call brakemen to fill yard jobs which pays ABOVE guarantee which in the infinite wisdom of csx accounting can't figure out shows as guarantee payment. need we go on?

Name: Santarail E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 23 December 2010 NoMo I didn't say anything negative and you jump on me like a monkey on a banana. Just who are you to post on here you dont even work for Csx. You're just foamer who has nothing better to do than run down csx the greatest company of all time. 100K in this economy is nothing to laugh about. I have friends that are teachers, lawyers, dentist, farmers etc. they dont make much different than I do. I live across street from president of first national and trust. So yes i am proud of my 100k. O yeah I've never worked 80hrs in a week on the rr. Merry Christmas CSX and all my fellow workers

Name: Santarail E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 23 December 2010 I just pullen in beautiful Brewer yard. Those great men I worked for just gave me a Christmas turkey for staying marked up. This place is the greatest yard on the system. Thats saying alot beca use csx is the greatest job on earth. I dont know why you men complain on here. I'm going to work Christmas so I can make triple time. How I love this place. What person in thre right mind wouldnt want a job out here. I sure hope they dont shut down. I will miss not seeing everyones happy faces. and i also going to make over 100k this year hows that for dropping out of school at 14.

Name: peanutbutter E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 December 2010 Merry Christmas to all the hard working rrers. To rest of you company men. I hope you all get called out right before Christman dinner. Well the ble and utu offices will be closing I didnt know the rr shut down why should those pigs.. Our fat lazy no good union rep that cant barely hold a job will be laying off union as soon as he gets in. He'll be taking caring of all kinds of union affairs like feeding his fat ass. I'm sick of him and the rest of those guys claiming jobs they cant hold and staying displaced.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 December 2010 NO MO It took me 3 days to get through Nashville the last time I was there. Guess better transportation would help. 3 hours at Tootsies is a nice commute.

Name: Matt Sanders E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2010 Is it me or does my girlfriend remind you of a member of ms-13?? She loves her tacos and she runs for the border!!!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 December 2010 Two hours, hell it took me 3 hours to get through Nashville last Monday...25-30 miles!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 December 2010 Lloyd, This guy does not know that a 2 hour commute is very common. Let me clarify-- not on the RR call, that does not work. However the commute of 2 hours is very common for Houston Tx folks, and many other places. The RR 2 hour call is the only problem, now if assigned and not on call, the problem goes away. Hell man get a 3rd trick yard job, and drive your ass off, or get a camper!!!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 December 2010 Lloyd You should know better. I'll always put my handle on a post. Besides it was a conductor that posted. Ye'of little faith. Give me some credit. I can take the heat if someone doesn't agree with my opinion. LMFAO!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 December 2010 I just want to know what the hell is the problem with csx. They hired 7 conductors for chattanooga yard in tennessee. There are no positions in this sorry excuse for a yard. And now we get laid off....WTF I left a job to come to this shit hole to get laid off and have to find another job. Fuck You Pete B....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 December 2010 Loyd, jim was a drinking there a little, but he still makes sense. No reason to drive 200 miles to work each day. Numb nuts get a tent, or camper. I know-- no motel provided, dang that is bad. Other side is no pay check. you figure it out. Jim has it and many more do also. RR is more than a Job, It is a Harley lifestyle, Or Railroad Lifestyle, Some fit and some do not!

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 December 2010 Hey RRJ, that has got to be you. I say thats okay advice...if you CAN afford to drive 2 hours to work every day and you DO have someone to take care of whatever priorities you have at home. Otherwise who can afford to drive 2 plus hours to work with a family at home? I understand we all should do what we have to in order to make ends meet but sometimes its just not possible. I'm sorry but there just isn't a excuse for this company anymore with their hiring procedures and the way they let whoever go wherever to work because they can't figure out man power. Some of this falls on the unions because they are the ones who agreed to these sorry ass contracts in the first place so I guess everyone gets a big fatty in the rear.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 December 2010 Did he sit on his ass when he was furloughed or try to find work in another terminal? Plenty of guys at my home terminal collected unenjoyment for months when they could have held work within an hours drive. Ask him about the 80's, when some conductors spent 2-3 years working 300 miles or more from home to keep a paycheck coming in. The majority of us on the railroad have been through the same meat grinder; some of us listened to the old heads when we were told save money, live on a budget cause the big money won't always be there. I'm sorry if this seems harsh, but if you have some seniority, and want to work, there is work. It may not be where you want it to be, but it is out there.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 December 2010 7 years ago my husband went to the 5 week school for CSX. While he went to school which WE paid for we lost our home and cars. We thought in the long run it would be a better job and life for our growing family. We never thought he would have to fight for the next 7 years to get paid or to keep his job. Since going to work my husband has been laid off twice last time was at Christmas of 2008 (so nice of them) While out of work AGAIN we got behind on everything! We are still trying to get things straight. Just when there was light at the end of our dark tunnel... Now when he does work get to work they claim he has been over paid and cut his next two or three checks. He has to move boards every two weeks to make sure he is even going to be working! It really ticks me off he gets a letter from CSX claiming record profits!!! LOL! Really! Our husbands are the ones that are on the ground busting their butts to make those profits but all we get is a letter three weeks before Christmas saying they are cutting his check AGAIN!!! My kids say thank you CSX thank you.... Have a wonderful Christmas I bet your kids will have gifts under the tree....

Name: Steve Crain E-mail: tomheike@needsteeth.com Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 December 2010 I have been offered a job on the coal pier in Baltimore. I heard unless you support Rev. Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, you stand no chance. Is this true?? I mean, I do love my KFC and watermellon farms and have always been a big supporter of Old English 40's. Do you think that will help?? And when I pose a question, I always start out with "let me AX you a question". I do not know, I think I have a pretty good shot here people. Anyone here work on the coal pier there?? Any advice would greatly appreciated. Thanks and happy holidays everyone!!

Name: Retired CSX E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 December 2010 Is Tom Wolfe still employed? Or has his past of being a horrible officer and human being caught up to him?

Name: .... E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 December 2010 you're all dumb, CSX is one of the best jobs out there! i get 40.87/hr. hows that for ya? fuckin retards.

Name: where E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 December 2010 I work north out of evansville indiana what region am i and does any of this 2010agreement apply to me

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 November 2010 Happy Thanksgiving to all CSX railroad employees, and I hope most can be home for the holiday. I know CSX is a piece of shit unethical company to work for, and I know some people will be stuck out there moving trains when there is really no reason to be working with the whole country shut down. I just wanna wish everyones family a happy holiday from one railroad employee to another. I could care less about Ward, Brown, or Sandborn. We know they don't work holidays, and we know they don't care about you & me.

Name: plmorgan E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 November 2010 CSX BLOWS ASS!!!!!!!!

Name: john jack E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 November 2010 Avoid the Baltimore Coal Piers, yeah you can get good money but you'll be tossed out or leave within months. They complain about being understaffed but whenever they get someone they are driven off by whoever their working with.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2010 ALOT OF OPENINGS IN BALTIMORE AT THE COAL PIERS. ANYONE KNOW WHY? GOOD OR BAD PLACE TO WORK OR JUST EXPANDING?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 November 2010 To all the people around Syracuse. Stussie is bringing his clone to your area. Name is Adam Hawkins. He is just as bad as Stussie. He go hired as a TM because is dad is high up in the company. This guy ran Martin, KY into the ground. Just watch your backs.

Name: J W E-mail: fitzgerald ga Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 14 November 2010 for about there on your vacation your days for the year will end on the last pay period of the year just like your income on your W2 FORM.I DO KNOW FOR A FACT THAT CSX CAN ADD A FEW DAYS TO YOUR DAYS SO THAT YOU CAN QUALITFY IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO I FOR ONE HAD 12 DAYS ADDED ON THE YEAR i retired early in the year for I HAD ENOUGH OF CSX SHITY RULES AFTER 40 YEARS OF SEVICE.i know of a couple lmore people that had days added so they also would be able to get vacation pay. MIKE Pendergrass is a real r.r. person in JAX. fla if you like a few days I WOULD TALK TO HIM HE IS A PERSON WHO UNDERSTANDS AND WILL LISTEN.labor relation handles most of these claims however get your general chairman to speak for you if he will.

Name: aboutthere E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 November 2010 Thanks for information

Name: lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 November 2010 Your year to date days is your total you will have towards your vacation. Look for days YTD and you need 240...you will have all of December to meet this requirement for vacation.

Name: aboutthere E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2010 I was laid off for the most of the year but I have over 200 qualifying days. Does anyone know the last day in December that you can recieve qualifying days for vacation. Someone told me this was the same as the last paid day of the year. I'm barely holding on to a job.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 November 2010 Today I will be having my stomach pumped. I suspect you guys know what for. I wish you all safe trips. P.S. Ward you sure look nice today.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 November 2010 CSX Corp. erased gains after two blocks totaling 20.5 million shares changed hands, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Jacksonville, Florida-based railroad had risen as much as 2.7 percent to $64.50 before the shares traded for $62.50 each at 3:17 p.m. and 3:18 p.m. in New York, Bloomberg data show. The stock was worth $1.28 billion at that price. JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it handled a transaction for 20.5 million shares at about the same time, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. CSX shares rallied 30 percent in 2010 through yesterday, beating the 7.4 percent advance for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. To contact the reporter on this story: Elizabeth Stanton in New York at estanton@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Nick Baker at nbaker7@bloomberg.net.

Name: KCJONES E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 November 2010 To Hottytotty Get another boyfriend that doesn't work on the RR!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 November 2010 wow rrj i didnt know that they sold theyre men back in 1993, no kidding we already know that, they sold their "BLANKABLE" rights, yes there is a difference, but you wouldnt know that! and the union meeting that us "lads" shoudlve showed up to right? WRONG , you mean the private meeting for those 26 guys was held at a hotel and POST 1985 guys werent allowed to attend! But atleast theres comfort in knowing that the switchman that took promotion to engineer, will never get that money! So before you post about new guys not go to meeting you have absolutely no fucking idea about, just keep to yourself and shut the FUCK UP, and nomo you have no idea either!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 October 2010 Nope not the same guy jagoff RRJ, dont know shit about baltimore, nor do i care, worked at barr yard over ten years as a switchman asshole, not a foamer like you. But heres the BIG PICTURE, do you not realize youre on a website CSX-SUKS.com , not ILOVECSX.com, so what the hell do you expect when people come on here bitching about csx dickhead, yet you throw in your worthless 2 cents about shit! You oldheads fucked the railroads more than anybody, and now we have to pay the price, you guys sold shit and gave it away for youre own benefit, so suck it!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 October 2010 Wolfe is in Jacksonville after his promotion to VP of Safety for Positive Train Control Implementation. Pendergrass probably brought him down there to park his sorry ass until retirement so he wouldn't screw up anything else being the sawed off, no count, stupid fat ass that he is. Just glad he is gone!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 October 2010 Hey RRJ, just wanted to say fuck you, you jag off, its the oldheads like you that sold everyone out, thats made everyones job harder! You dicksheads sold the fireman, flagman, headman. You rant about everyone bitching on here, how many times you switch by yourself and do industries by yourself cocksucker! Hell even the oldheads at barr yard sold their blankable switchman rights for $100,000.00 a piece last year, and fucked every guy below them, Gen. chairman John Lesniewski worked out that deal for his buddys, oh, and they put a no furlough clause in there, the next week they started furloughing, so you and every other sell out can take a flying fucking leap! Csx paid $2.6 million dollars to the 26 oldhead switchman last year! Yet us non protected guys couldnt even get our lunches paid! Then these same oldheads, who we used to let sleep and watch movies on the second unit, for letting us be the foreman, have the gall, after they sold out to ask for a line up coming the yard, yea heres you line up cocksucker, GET FUCKED AND LINE YOU OWN SWITCHES, YOU DIDNT DO SHIT FOR OVER 10 YEARS ON THAT SECOND UNIT! So in conclusion RRJ, GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU CRUSTY OLD BASTARD, I HOPE YOU DONT COLLECT RR LONG!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 October 2010 Well, if he is a big enough screw-up as a manager, I'm sure he got a promotion and a big fat raise! And transferred to become someone else's problem.

Name: EX CSX T&E E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 October 2010 Does anyone know what Tom Wolfe is doing? And has he paid for his "sins" and coverups as a manager?

Name: doctor white E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 27 October 2010 Where do we start ! Safety ; everyone wants to go home the same they came to work. working road switcher jobs and yard jobs with excessive walking and and protecting shove moves is unsafe for one man. All the while trying to keep your work order scores on top of the mark so the trainmaster want get his rear end eat out.The railroad wants there cake & eat it to, there is to much work for one man to do while keeping your scope set on safety. The amount of work they want you to do is not within the safe limits of what one man can accomplish. I am a short timer and have seen many changes in my 34yrs of service. I can only hope that my railroad brothers & sisters can adhere to these unrealistic changes that the railroad is determined to shove down there throats. Code of etchics this word is used very often by the railroad, They do not begin to know the meaning of the word. Trainmasters , road foreman of engines, crew callers, and the list goes on & on. Rudeness - harassment - intimidation - all are parts of life on the CSX RAILROAD. Marcus Calhoun Mcant is a fine example of a cat with 9 lifes. All of the conflicks this man has been involved in brought on by his rude - raccist- ignorant remarks and actions and this man still has a job with good old C.S.X. I could just PUKE.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 October 2010 I would just like to say I am celebrating my 2nd year being OUT OF THIS CRAP HOLE!!! I worked at the Pentagon my first year out and now work for the state of Minnesota. I truely enjoyed the work while I was at CSX (my safety record speaks for itself). However, I saw the future and what it has become (and I was only there for 4 years. God knows the changes the old timers have seen). I enjoyed the work and had fun doing the job. But the politics became way too much. Some people getting favortism more than others (example: a man, sorry, I mean a drug dealer has 47 missed calls within half of a year. YES, 6 months). He was never taken out of service until a new Superintendant came in (by the way, we went through 3 Superintendant's the "4" years I was there). Oh, and by the way, this other crew derailed equipment (their fault) and went to investigation. Only to leave INVESTIGATION with two tickets to the Orioles game that night!!! Yeah, that WANNA-BE Superintendant is no longer with us, nor is the train crew who probably thought they just got a night in Beverley Hill's with just two tickets to the Orioles game!!!LMAO By the way, they are no longer with CSX Baltimore division either. Back to my subject at hand, this "47 missed call" guy happened to be the nephew or cousin of a mentor for all new hires in Baltimore. The mentor was demoted back to train service and his "47 missed call" family member was fired. Let alone this POC had a horrible safety record!!! NOW, I heard there is ANOTHER Superintendant in Baltimore (this is number 4 ladies and gentleman in 6 years)!! My point being this, when I signed my application for CSX, I am pretty sure (somebody tell me if I am wrong) it said "EQUALL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER". Mr. Ward (or Mr. VP or whoever), you need to make your way to Baltimore and show them how this is ACTUALLY PRACTICED!!! Because GOD KNOWS the union officials are not doing it!! Oh sorry, they are already in your left hand pocket!! All the more reason I am up here, behind a desk, making DAMN NEAR twice as much as I was making as a conductor..LOL However, I loved what I did and have respect for the men and woman who still do it (since I was once in their position).With that being said, write this down Michael Ward (and every other demon in your regime)!! "The way you treat your people is the work ethic you get in return"!!!!! You should remember this line Michael!!! You might not have such a bad record for derailments, injuries, etc.. Have a safe CSX day!!;0);0);0) For the rest of the hard working Men and Woman in train service, good luck with your careers. Keep it on the rails!!

Name: Alabama T&E E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 October 2010 You said the Touchstone Trainmaster in Alabama vanished and she was seeing T.E. Miller? Is she still employed or did she leave due to the affair?

Name: UTU hater E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 October 2010 http://utu974.com/Cram_Down_Arbitration.pdf Only four pages. Wow. Just wow.

Name: UTU hater E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 October 2010 Well surprise surprise we got the SSA forced on us. It is offical. At least the L & N will get New York Dock protection, the C & O, SCL, and A & WP do not.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 October 2010 I don't believe this appointment will benefit the rank and file. The way I read his qualifications is he worked on the corporate side of the business. His background doesn't bode well for labor! New mediator named by National Mediation Board WASHINGTON – The National Mediation Board has appointed veteran airline negotiator Walter L. Darr Jr. as a mediator. Darr, said the agency, “brings to the board more than 23 years of labor relations experience, having worked in the airline industry much of that time with responsibility for negotiating and administering collective bargaining agreements. "Most recently, he worked as principal for an independent consulting firm, with diverse engagements in industries governed by the Railway Labor Act and the National Labor Relations Act," said the NMB. A graduate of the University of Phoenix, Darr completed the NMB’s training program in interest based bargaining and grievance mediation, and earned a certificate in alternate dispute resolution at the University of Houston Law Center. October 8, 2010

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 October 2010 I went to the CSX-Corruption site. There are ignorant racist people everywhere not just on CSX. This site CSX-Sucks had to defend it's right to excist. Don't you think CSX will take on this new site? The story posted about an incident in Abbeville, SC about a clerks racist comment is hear-say because nothing was reported to an official by the conductor, engineer, or conductor trainee. CSX does have the CSX Ethics hotline that one could of reported this infraction without giving their name. Was that done? No. This could be considered slander because no action was taken at the time. There are no records of the incident. A timeticket with someones name on it doesn't mean anything. If a CSX employee started this site they better read their operating rule book especially rules GR-2A, GR-12, GR-13. You might think you are protected under the 1st Amendment rights but to defend the site would require identifying oneself. That could lead to termination. If the administrator has the convictions to defend their site at any cost I applaude their actions. If they don't I'd be shutting it down.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 October 2010 New site with new forums dedicated to CSX. Updated content! Visit www.csx-corruption.com and/or enter the forums! We need your stories to give this company the attention it deserves. www.csx-corruption.com

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 October 2010 It seems many of the railroads work the same, Never taking into consideration of employees knowledge of they're job. Say for instance accidents and fatality's, See if you can find any where other than human factor that causes them, you won't find any. But on that issue you have all probably asked for better line ups as to not be called on short rest or no rest, maybe having to work 12 hours and still be stuck on a train for much longer. Statistics in any other industry seems to know that lack of rest rotating shifts, longer shifts, reduces the awareness of an employee. And the accident and fatality rate is higher. Human error of Railroad accidents is true, but what does the Railroad do to prevent it, What do they do to protect employees and the public from these tragic accidents? Know one knows better than you who run these trains every day what it is like. And know one knows better than you the problems you have. The safety awareness should come from the employees who have experienced and learned. Let me give you a few examples in a different industry, Management with out experience to make rules for employees to follow. I personally witness this and probably saved the lives of every one I worked with in a chemistry lab. I was walking down the hall and looked though the glass window as the manager poured cyanide solution and to follow it acid down a sink, basically causing a gas chamber, I immediately neutralized it. This Manager had no prior experience. Just a Degree, There is a difference between Degree and experience. Not long after that incident I applied for a job with a much bigger company in research, in which every employee had a degree in chemistry. After the 7 hour interview I thought no way would I get this job, but I did, replacing someone with a degree, I asked the company why? they told me that the employee I replaced could tell you any thing out of a book but could not apply it. That my many years of hands on training was much more valuable. This same reason why the Railroad has so many fatality's is that they won't listen to the employees that actually do the work. They will make a policy on every thing on safety from the books but change nothing of things you experience every day. These are the issues that should be heard and learned by. I learned early in my career not to argue with experience. It must be awfully frustrating to know the problems, but yet have someone that has never experienced make the rules for you. It's like telling a Surgeon how to perform a surgery. If a company wants to know how to have a good work enviroment, save lives and how to prevent injury listen to the experienced employees take notes hve safety meetings and then put it in to a efficient program. Rather than make they're rules without experience, then punish you for being human for the demands they put on you. In light of this, I know that every one including the highest officials have seen the signs on the HWY or Freeway stating "If you get sleepy pull over" as to not cause an accident for safety reasons. Pretty simple your awareness is not good. Same as when you are tired going to work on a unexpected call. I seriously think that if the management and officials want to look like they are doing a good job and consider they're employees and have much more respect and knowledge than just what is written on paper they would listen. After all you are the ones who keep the Railroad running and keep them in business. Make your voices be heard you have the freedom of speech.Stand up for your rights.You can write to congress they will listen especially if it has to do with saving a life, if enough is said from many of you it then it is not just one voice it is many as it is in a strike. You can even make your post on here and some one can copy and paste to send them all in to congress. You may be suprized of the out come. I have no idea of your job functions, but I can see from the out side that much improvement could be made. Good Luck to all of you in the future.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 October 2010 You know, i sit and read post from employees and non-employees on this web site and laugh. All of you just sit here and complain. If you don't like the way things are, CHANGE THEM. Go to school, get educated, get promoted, and fix the problems. 90% of management in CSX came from the ranks (Union). Stop complaining get off your ass and do something about it. If you just complain about the the problems and don't try to help, means your the main part of the problem. Your right, not all management should be in management. Not all managers are good managers. Then again, not all employees should be employees. Not all people can work for the railroad. Most railroaders will tell you this is not the easiest job in the world. If you can't handle the job, leave. Those who complain, and don't step up, need to get out of the way and let others step up. Those who step up, need not to complain and fix the problems, or get out of the way and let others step up.

Name: AlabamaT&E E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 September 2010 I have heard the my supervisor L. Touchstone has strayed away from her husband before with different men. Is she still married?

Name: Ex CSX E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 September 2010 Brian Stussie was arrested for DUI/DWI? Is he still working? Don't most T&E people that he is an officer for get fired for this? He is the pretty boy's mug shot. http://southcentralregionaljail.info/?BookingID=2784018

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 September 2010 Here comes big lay-offs by halloween boys and girls! BB&T Capital Markets analyst John Mims this morning reduced his ratings on both CSX (CSX) and Norfolk Southern (NSC) to Hold from Buy, citing concerns that the coal market could be weaker than previously expected. He notes that both companies generate about 30% of revenue from transporting coal. “We believe that coal commentary will be increasingly bearish during the Q3 earnings season,” he writes, and that both NSC and CSX could come under significant near0-term pressure if guidance on eastern utility and metallurgical coal is revised downward. Mims adds that he isn’t making a call here on Q3 earnings, but instead says the more bearish stance is “a reflection of our belief that utility stockpiles in the East (particularly the Southeast) will not burn down as fast as the consensus view,” and that coal exports to Asia will slow in the near-term. Nonetheless, both stocks are trading higher in today’s strong market rally: CSX is up $1.52, or 2.8%, to $55.91. NSC is up $1.78, or 3.1%, to $59.77.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 September 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Railroad operator CSX Corp. spent $1.16 million lobbying the U.S. government in the second quarter on issues including federal transportation spending and antitrust enforcement. The company spent $1.12 million in the previous quarter, and it spent $1.5 million in the second quarter of 2009. CSX lobbied on bills covering spending for freight, passenger and high-speed rail and on a resolution calling for better security against terrorist attacks aimed at rail and mass transit lines. It also lobbied on railroad antitrust issues and corridors for inter-suburban commuter rail service, according to a July 19 filing with Congress. Besides Congress, the Jacksonville, Fla., company lobbied the Transportation, Defense, Energy and Homeland Security departments, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget

Name: W E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 September 2010 Hey there UTU haters. I wonder why it is the Engineer's Freight pool assignments don't have assigned rest days like the Conductors? As you guys may know the Conductors pools have rest days that can be turned off or on depending on whether or not the employee wants to observe his/her rest day. Article 45-Off Days, Paragraph "A" of the BLET agreement States " All pool assignments will have at least one (1)assigned mandatory rest day per week or two (2) mandatory rest days bi-weekly." It sure seems to me that with the current CSX availability policy the BLET would enforce this article of the agreement and provide it's members with some planned time off. If there are Engineer's off on rest days, CSX would ahve to increase there boards to cover these vacancies. Kinda seems as though the BLET is doing exactly what the carrier wants. This doen'nt really surprise me much with the past history of the BLE local chariman's at my terminal.

Name: KYLE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 September 2010 When i hired on at age 18 i used to hear a lot of the old heads talk about when it was the brotherhood of railroad trainmen & conductors union and how back then the union would fight like hell for the men and all that changed when it became the U.T.U. and i can see it myself that the u.t.u. is now in bed with the company officials, What we really need is OPEN SHOP union, you would then see how fast the union would start caring for the men, Did you know with CLOSED SHOP you can and will get FIRED if you don,t pay union dues, Now if you don,t call that being in bed with the company what the hell else is it? We are being forced to pay union dues but the utu don,t care a rats ass about the members as long as the dues money keeps comming into cleveland ohio utu headquarters from us closed shop suckers.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 September 2010 man, I am so glad to be out of this hell hole!!! Everyone is looking out for number one!!! I was there for 4 years and read between the lines!!!! I saw my furlough coming but needed the benefits!!! So I beat them to the punch and went out disability (with benefits) and received a job JUST before the benefits went out. The sad part, the union official was more pissed at me than the damn company officials!! I wonder why that is?? Could it be because I gave (and most on here still do) over $100.00 a month to a bunch of low life fags who were in the companies left hand pocket who only know how to say "they can do that, they can do that, they can do that. But hey, thanks for your charity to the waterhead (aka, UTU & BLE) union. We appreciate you WAISTING your money!!" The funny part is just that, I CAN LAUGH IN YOUR FACES!!!!!LLLLLLLLLMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO But hey, I love the UTU news letters I still get. Keep them coming, they make wonderful fire starters for winter!!!!!LMAO The federal gov't is the way to go people!!!

Name: Chris Leabetter E-mail: cleabetter@gmail.com Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 August 2010 "IF YOU ARE NOT DESPERATE FOR A JOB AND HAVE EDUCATION, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND TRY TO GET A JOB ELSEWHERE. FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT IS THE WAY TO GO. THAT'S JUST MY OPINION. I SHOULD HAVE QUIT CSX MY SECOND DAY ON THE JOB, BUT I STUCK IT OUT FOR TEN WEEKS UNTIL I COULDN'T TAKE THEIR BULLSHIT ANYMORE. UNSAFE, UNFAIR, RATS AND SCABS............" God Bless the mans heart who said this!!!!!! I am so glad the railroad is a distant memory!!! I have been out for 3 years and working for the Fed Gov't ever since. Seeing my family more and getting treated well by my management, I feel like a human again. I felt like I did something bad and was assigned to community service, except I received pay for it while I was in the RR.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 August 2010 JH Lay no blame, it came out well. As the Conductor it would be nice to take the hit for the crew, and at one time that was the deal. No longer works that way. The RR charges everyone=== then weed's it down to the truth. Hope you are doing Well.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 25 August 2010 I think everyone on here is pathetic. If you have an issue with CSX and it's that bad then just leave!! It seems to me that most of you want to receive a paycheck and not be held accountable for doing your job!! Also, if you have an issue with someone....talk to them about it!! Don't bitch on some website. GROW SOME BALLS!!! No need to respond....I will not be on here ever again. This was my first and last time. GET A LIFE!

Name: J H E-mail: Fitzgerald Ga Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 August 2010 I KNOW IT SOUNDED LIKE I WAS OUT OF PLACE BUT I FAILED TO ADD THAT THE CUB AND MYSELF WAS STILL ON THE ENGINE BECAUSE WE HAD ALREADY BUILT OUR,TRAIN.ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS SHOUVE IN CUT FOR SPOT AND WE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLEARING THE MAIN LINE AS SOON AS WE WAS IN THE PLANT, WE HAD TO LET OTHER TRAINS RUN BEFORE WE CAME BACK OUT. YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CUT AND THE BRAKEMAN SITTIN ON THE ENGINE THEN THIS ACCIDENT JUST MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED. THIS BRAKEMAN WAS ONE OF THE BEST THAT I HAD EVER WORKED WITH THIS WAS JUST THAT A ACCIDENT.I tryed to take full resposiblity of this but was refused by csx at the investgation I did this so the rest of the crew could get back to work for I had finally had enough of CSX SHITTY RULES. my good general chairman HANCOCK IS THE PERSON WHO SOLD ME OUT;

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 August 2010 To JH In all reality you were very lucky, you got your vacation and kept your job. Engineer was not at fault, so he got paid for the 37 days. Now as the Conductor sitting on the Engine with a Cub, while 38 year person does the work??? That was not the best decision, the cub should be on the ground with both you and the Brakeman. I know the situation and have done it myself. I was lucky nothing happened, you were unlucky and it happened and you were not there to see it. Man that is a gotcha, and as the person in charge it could have been much more than a few day's pay. You were Lucky, can ya feel it????

Name: J H E-mail: Fitzgerald ga Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 August 2010 To the cond Should I or NOt. I worked for 40 years trying to get my 240 days in for vacation for the followin year liked only 8 days had 232 days in. well I was working rd switcher and my brakeman had 38 years in he shouved into a cut of cars . we had a cut of cars of 38 me a cub and the engineneer was on the eng. I finally convinced csx to not even mention the cub so thanks that is what they did but the engineer myself and the brakeman was pulled out of service for 37 days well the engineer got paid latter the brakeman was found guilty and my good general chairmain mr Hancock got me 8 days added to my time he said so that i would quality for my vacation instead of about $10,000.00 this was not suppose to interfier with my claim for the 37 days but my good general chairman hancock said since he got me 5 weeks minimun vacaton pay he settle for this without even talking to me. i could have easy worked another week but he did not even care to talk to me Hancock knows who I am I wish he would call me.This is the same general chairman that helped our ex local chairman steal thousands of dollors from the young men in Fitzgerad Ga several years ago.I hope he enjoys himself when he gets through giving claims away and retires.It is not only Csx sucks for the higher up in the unions is doing the sucking too.The sooner the unions engineers and conductors become one union working conditions will not get better. Have a good day hancock i hope someone gets this to you.oh this happened 3 years ago i guess i should just forget but i will not.csx

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 August 2010 Nice website haven't been on here for awhile, now where are the ble-sucks, and the utu-sucks companion sites...They all follow suit...Earnings going down, all claims denied, no air on engins(real safe), some caps set at zero but new attendance policy, management is clueless, Union dues on the rise for these great agreements we are voteing in(yeah right). This company is now in the business of bonus, not railroading. And on and on, I could go on for days, but think of this.. without the railroad and those of us who do our jobs, there is no bonus...take care of what takes care of you. Jackasses.... Unions need to respect their members, and management needs to grow a pair and learn to think for themselves. We need thinkers not "yes"men. I am supposed to be led by example, but I only know how to railroad, and dont understand how a 2 year degree in nothing realative to my job can lead me, I'm not intrested in your degrees, we are not splitting atoms here. Stupid litte yellow switch tags, and stickmen..all will get your job, but what do you get for passing their little test? No praise, no thanks, nothing positive, you just get to keep your job...woo-hooo, Sorry for the ramble, and please excuse any of my phonetically challenged words, and grammer. I just needed to vent...have a CSX ethnical day.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 August 2010 hAy thIss iz fouR al yoU peeopple who post oN CSSX SUkS., DU evverbody a favor and LERN TOO SPEL !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 August 2010 NOMO, RRR may or may not be more secure than SS. I worked under a defined benefit plan 30 and out at 55. That is no more (now 401 only) and you are correct SS is headed for much more than 67. Watch them closely, you will see the benefits at 60 from RRR change. My comment was directed at paying SS rates and drawing RRR benefits. At one time one could draw both, however that was way before your time and mine as well. I checked they roll over.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 August 2010 I saw this on the UTU web site and can only say the UTU is interested in how their membership views the President's job performance. Not one question asking their membership how they view the UTU's job performance. Perhaps they already know the results of asking a embarrassing question. http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=52821

Name: Should I or Not E-mail: todatrash@gmail.com Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 August 2010 Ok just got my offer letter and Redi in Sept; Father 35 yrs +, gramps 40 yrs +; great gramps 19 yrs legs were cut off by a car, am I making a mistake by joining, not desprate for job and have education. Let me know

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 August 2010 Hey Goober: You pay more and so do the carriers don't they? The big difference is RRR is more stable and will still be around longer than SS. You can retire from rail service after 30 years provided you're 60 and there has been talk (light) about reducing the retirement age. With SS full retirement age is now what 67 with talk (heavy) about upping it to 70. In the end SS may mean pay more and get less!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 August 2010 NOMO, Now come on man the RRR is better than SS. Are you trying to kid someone. Railroad Retirement is really good, and so is Social Security. In Essence they are the same. Pay more get more. Very simple. Now the real deal is pay SS rates and draw RR, or draw both???? Let us not lead a newbe down a trail of errors.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 11 August 2010 Somebody pointed out the large number of unemployed middle aged men, and correctly realized that makes the RR quite willing to push its employees around - since this is the best game in town. It is CSX or Taco Bell.HOWEVER, 2 things have happened in the last 10 years. 1. The RR PAYS - TAX FREE - ALL YOUR 4 YEAR COLLEGE TUITION, and most masters where you just pay the tax on tuition, and B. There are MANY legitimate degree and degree completion programs available ON LINE as well as local.Most everybody can afford a computer and high speed internet DSL or cable or wireless card, and the vast majority of people I see at work have SOME college, or military credit, or SOMETHING that gives them part of a degree. The RR pays the rest. The RR offers this primarily for HQ people who eat it up, but it is FOR EVERYONE. Only a few minor exceptions - folks Deep into IDAP discipline should check first, theology and music degrees usually don't count, phony no work paper degrees from Central America don't get paid. SHOP AROUND and there is lots there. MANY other businesses I know about are paying TONS of $$$ because so many employees (your future competitors)see a real deal, and the employers make them sign a promise to STAY extra time if company pays tuition. You do have to sit at computer NOT playing Farmville, or drinking at the titty bar.I don't want to sound "old skool", but DRIVING to a stupid course on 15 winter nights, fighting for parking and standing in registration lines, and PAYING FULL PRICE from your net take home paycheck makes a tax free paid on line course sound like a great deal. Also, many community colleges offer skill programs in person only, I assume. They officially lead to a degree, and so are paid, but if you acquire a SKILL and then don't finish degree the RR has already paid. You are in the RR hole, but CSX will BUY you a shovel to dig out! You have to be the digger, though. If enough people did this the RR would have to treat people fairly for fear of attrition loss.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 August 2010 Hey Other: If you're taking a cut in pay, stay put...CSX has plenty of pressure too although the retirement through the RRB is better than SS.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 August 2010 have been offered a job with CSX as a communication technician. Is it worth leaving a job making 60,000yr that has a lot of pressure for the CSX job?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 August 2010 Hey Lucky: Only 4 Grand after 2 years...talk to the LC. It's an union problem. When you have 20 or 30 Grand...it's still a union problem... plus yours, if you let it go that long!

Name: Lucky E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 August 2010 CSX will screw you over 3 ways from sunday. I've had over $4,000 in claims for over 2 years now and the union nor the company wants to pay them. They want us to work by a contract but yet they continue to right rules and policies that bypass every agreement we have.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 August 2010 Half the people on this board are trolls. Go read a rule book, then post.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 August 2010 Is Matt Sanders fired yet for what he did?

Name: waldo E-mail: matthewcmill@aol.com Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 August 2010 Im a conductor cub and just thought i would gripe a little, the past 4 weeks it has been a act of congress to get a freaking check-two weeks ago they tried to pay me 64 bucks for two weeks of work! And its been hell trying to get my money since then. I just checked my pay stub and im only getting 600 bucks this pay check for two weeks of work! The contract says 96 hours every two weeks for cubs. I made more money than that on a short line! Anyone got a good contact i can call at payroll? BY THE WAY IM NOT THE ONLY CUB WITH SCREWED UP PAYROLL, ALMOST ALL THE CUBS I HIRED OUT WITH ARE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM!CSX SUCKS! matthewcmill@aol.com

Name: New layoff policy is BS E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 August 2010 ok so if you dont work you dont make money. Why is CSX doing this bullshit? Now it hurts the guys who hardly ever layoff and when an emergency comes up they either have to use a personal day or vacation. WE NEED TO HAVE A SYSTEM WIDE SICK OFF!!!!! fuck the union...they wont do shit about it so we should.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 July 2010 LE 10-20 All that needs to be done is have a vote for those who will represent them in railroad/union programs like the BLET SENSE or CSX Safety committee. That's how we deal with it. No union officer especially the LC should participate. That in my opinion is a conflict of interest. Bring it up at the monthly union meeting. My BLET division has been doing this for quite some time. It'll alleviate any suspician from the membership. Those voted in can do monthly reports at the meetings. Biggest problem most people do not fill out the necessary forms to report safety concerns to their rep. When they go to monthly meeting they need it in writing so it can be documented. People complain but their part of the problem. Verbal complaints never get action not like PI-82's or the BLET Safety forms. On CSX it's pretty much a sham every month old business is discussed with alot of follow ups. Changing a light bulb could take 6 months.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 July 2010 Loco 10-20 7/22 Are you kidding, it took you 10 years to figure this stuff out. I figure at 1k a year you have 10k invested in this. Man you bought some nice Lobster for the boy's. got a question for ya, How are things working for YOU? I know, I Know, gotta let em take my cash every half, can't stand up and fight the system. I know if they ask on Occasion for a little more, need to do that so my Budd's do not turn against me. Why post a bitch about the union, when you are the Union? I think you are ball less and a follower. No person in their right mind would continue to do as you are doing, the RR and the Union both know this, now it is your turn to tell me why?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 July 2010 Railroads, Unions, Lack of Oversight (Corrupt Corporate America) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2010-07-19, 5:42AM EDT Reply To This Post -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to the lack of FEDERAL oversight; some railroad management are audaciously (bribing) paying union officers FULL SALARIES to participate in phantom safety-[ not working] (once a month) programs as added leverage against employees to control dissent; incite intimidation. The union officers are suppose to be bound by honor and integrity to protect their members from harassment, threats for reporting unsafe working conditions and to ensure strict safe working conditions to prevent distractions that is the main cause of accidents. An environment free of intimidation is an environment free of accidents. The last ten years; Railroad CEO's and some union officer's salaries have quadrupled while the TE&Y employees are at par. The major rail (BLET UTU) unions; FOUR out of the last SIX International Officers have resigned or have been incarcerated due to misconduct. The moral of this alarm is this: if the railroads are encouraging corruption on local/division level; look at what the International Officers are turning-out to be on the national level...CROOKS-without any FEDERAL OVERSIGHT!

Name: signal man E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 July 2010 this has got to be a joke.. A big group of conductors and engineers that have nothing better to do then cry. I am a signalman with CSX and have never heard anyone cry and bitch as much as you guys. If you dont like your jobs then quit. It is because of your rule violations and not paying attention you ever get in trouble. Everytime I have to go to a meeting with trans I hate it you are a big group of crying bitches. Also it was a trans person that is making us work extra hard under FRA and now we have to add PTC because one of you guys in California killed a bunch of people while texting. Here is a hint, try to go get another job and see if you get paid 50+K a year to sit on your ass and complain because a caller runner didnt bring you ice and crew packs.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 July 2010 took a look at the proposed consolidation that CSX wants to impose. Looks like Montgomery and Erwin are really gonna take up the ass. Also it is very obvious that CSX is kissing the SCL's ass and wanting to punish the L&N for voting down the last agreement. Wow what a great company to work for. The L&N local chairmen need to get off there asses and stop this before shit really hits the fan. Would like to hear what everyone else has to say about this horse shit

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 July 2010 Did the webmaster forget about this website? Doesn't look like it has been updated in the longest time. well besides the daily comments that people post.

Name: Ms danvill E-mail: Asmo Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 June 2010 Word is Angie smith won her case against Csx . Found Csx guilty on all counts/sexual harrassment withthanks going too wes knick. Next followed up by retaliation for daring to report it.. Honor goes to jack Vierling for firing her . Maybe Csx can sell his black belt in six sigma with jay fleenors dentures and have enough for attorney fees. Honorable mention goes to Terry schray and randy hall for nailing down the loose ends and making sure the jurors had no doubt what a sleazy bunch Csx has at the hel

Name: red E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 June 2010 I've been laid off and just came back to work. I'm on the road. Does anyone know how many qualifing days I need for vacation. I'm hearing 240 or 234 does anyone know for sure. Thanks

Name: Dr Ruth E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 June 2010 C&O Joe: Sounds like to me you may be the one that needs laid. Maybe you and Wes could do each other since you both seem to be experts on who needs fucked.

Name: georgekoury E-mail: georgekoury56@yahoo.com Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 June 2010 in 1976 i was beaten by two black men on a coach of are camp train working on the CSX Central Regional rail gang. I still suffer many after affects of this attack. They arrassement me four months stealing my lunch and calling me filthy names. The experience was a tradfull one which i will never ever foget

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 June 2010 OK, Gonna let ya off the hook. I can hear ya gagging with that 14k hanging in the windpipe.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 June 2010 Friend of CSX worker, My wife is pregnant as well and i will be damned if i turn off my phone. If i am at work when she calls i will tell her to call the YM or Train Dispatcher (depending where i am working) one time. If i dont get a response in 5 minutes, my ass is off and gone. They don't want you to interferer with them making money and your outside life is at the very bottom of the list of core values

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 May 2010 No, you've been assuming T&E are closer to 5000. Reread my post. To tell you the truth I could care less. End of discussion.

Name: screw csx E-mail: screwcsx@gofockyourself.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 May 2010 just wanted to say Happy Memorial Day to all Union brothers and sisters. As far as CSX goes, YEP, YOU STILL SUCK!!! Enjoy and happy drinking!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 May 2010 Jim now listen up You said 2008-2009 furlough 2500, almost half?? dummy that makes 5k. Man you do it for me. Now how far is 5k from 14k. I have seen rocks and a few dumb rocks, you are the Engineer with a full grip!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 May 2010 RRJ Just to keep annoying you . What does 1200 train's per day really mean! Are these simply the one's that CSX want's to count, or the one's you want to count. I bet the CSX is counting Starts, not your imature BS. I would think after a gazillion years and all of your experience you would know. Heck man you can not even get the miles and states right. I gave you 3k and that is a brakeman on half the starts. Piss on about rock trains, guess they are not trains and require no one. Good thing you are Retired, However looks like you are simply a foamer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 May 2010 Angie Smith vs. CSX case goes to court in Danville 0900 Tuesday June 1st. Anyone in the area may want to see this show. Come to the court house and see all your favorite Characters....Frulla, Vierling, Fleenor, Wes Knick, Randy Hall, Terry Schray and last but not least a special guest appearance by no other than Gery Williams. Guaranteed to have more dirt and scandal out in public than an Jerry Springer episode.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 May 2010 Have you ever heard of yard crews? Mine switchers? Locals? Rock trains? Pushers - helper service? Industrial yard switchers? Road Switchers? Extra Boards? Utilitymen? I'm sure I've left out a few. 14,000 out of 30,000 is about right it is a railroad. By your guesstamites when CSX furloughed 2500+ trainmen in 2008-2009 they had to do way with over half their work force. That didn't happen. You sure are an obsessive little schidt.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 May 2010 From mike ward, CSX home site, info for investors. 2009 Review. CSX has 21k miles CSX has 3800 Locomotives. CSX has 101k cars. CSX runs 1200 trains per day.(24HRS) CSX moves 20k cars per day CSX has 30,000. employees. Now tell me why they have 14k or more T&E AS PER RRJ. 1200 trains would require, let us say 3k that would be 50% with a Brakeman? With 14,000 T&E Every one is loving the guarantee as they only need to work 3 or 4 days a month. Also this means 47% of all CSX employees are T&E qualified. OK RRJ your turn to check me out and make me wrong.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 May 2010 Carman in Selkirk NY,I am hearing that the FRA is camped out in Waycross GA. What is going on, Is Matt Carson still employed?

Name: Drinky the drunk guy E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 May 2010 Sounds like you have an alcoholic trainmaster in Danville WV. In new orleans they just had a trainmaster fail a breath test. He had just got out of rehab for drinking on the job and Angie Averitte was in NOLA for a couple of days and tipped him off that the nurse was there to test him. He just did not come into work. The next day they were back and he showed up and the idiot failed the test. This trainmaster, Joe Rider also fired more people than anybody there....and he was caught drinking on the job. Think about that for a minute. That whole terminals officals are the biggest bunch of drunks on the railroad. Angie was over saftery for the Atl Division and could not even drive to work because she had so many DUI's.

Name: worker E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 May 2010 worlking for CSX is like working for the NAZI's!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 May 2010 I haven't a clue as to the actual number of T&E over the entire CSX system but 13,000 - 14,000 is not unrealistic. MOW, Signal Dept, Diesil Shops, clerks ect...are part of CSX Transportation. CSX is comprised of 6 different factions CSX Transportation, CSX Intermodal, CSX Technology, CSX Real Property, CSX Transflow, Total Distribution Services Inc that info is from their website. It is a railroad and it covers 23,000 miles of track. CSXT is it's bread and butter the other's were formed during the John Snow days when CSX was trying to diversify.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 May 2010 only been back for less than month after this wonderful company furloughed me before i could complete training. Anyways meet all the train master at my yard the when i got back and all of them said unlike what the old heads think we are not here to fire you we just want to make sure your safe. They went on about how they don't want to do all the paper work involved in firing someone. I believed what they said for about a week. That is when a job in my yard had a derailment because two empty flat cars bunched up and derailed. The same young train master who told me we was here for us and not here to fire anyone was so, so, so excited saying " i finally got me one, i have been looking to fire someone" These were the exact words from his mouth. Never have i seen someone so excited to put a working man on the street without a care. What was funny is the investigation proved the crew was not at fault which made this train master looking even more like a asshole. If any traim master out there read this, don't fill young guys like me heads full of shit about how you don't won't fire us. Because we all know yall are full of pure shit.

Name: L & N Trainman E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 May 2010 have been hearing around my yard that since the L&N voted the new agreement down and i do mean really voted it down that CSX is trying to take jobs away from Nashville, Birmingham, and Louisville and give them to Chattanoga (can't spell it) as some sort of punishment for the NO vote. Anyone else heard of this and if so what is going on?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 May 2010 Let me clarify a smidge. T&E is all that I have spoken to. I never expanded the conversation to the Transportation part of Railroading. So we are clear. Mow ,Clerks, Signal, Bridge and many more were never in my numbers. I never considered these folks T&E. And I still do not.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 May 2010 Just checking to see how really wrong and off base I am. Did I read that 13k to 14k out of 30k CSX employees were T&E? If so I may not understand what T&E really is. I always thought that was Train and Engine service, the folks that actually run the equipment in revenue service for the RR. I see now that I may be so old that, reason has left me. I give up RRJ, you win!!! almost 50% get to Run, Must be a fun place to work, but scares me a little.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 May 2010 Hey Con 20-30: I'm betting neither. They're actually downsizing. If I remember correctly several years ago the UTU eliminated or consolidated a number of VP positions. There was also 3 or 4 VPs that got axed as a result of the proposed merger (but like the Terminator...they may be back). I found it interesting they will refurnish the entire office which will cost several million dollars. My questions are who owns the building and what connection do they have with the UTU, if any? Who is supplying the furniture and what connection do they have with the UTU, if any? A move like this take planning so it has been in the works for a while, probably more than a year. It's funny the general membership is just finding out about it! With the UTU/CSX SSA fiasco they may be able to downsize even further in the new future! At least there's not a Country Club near by...I guess they will just have to drive themselves in UTU supplied cars!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 May 2010 Will the new UTU Building rent cost a increase to my union dues? Or will the Sheetmetal workers merger off set that ? I know stupid questions get stupid answers

Name: me,me,me E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2010 i was at the redi center taking the refresher course and i came off the ladder.... and i have to go back in 28 days to do this again does anyone have any advice to help me to train and to pass this once more??? thanks in advance to all that helped

Name: LMAO! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2010 Thanks for the link to Marcus Calhoun McCants facebook page. NOMO son is friends with him! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name: jsmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 May 2010 These contracts get passed because the Union is in bed with the RR, I wish we could get rid of these Unions and start are own. We would be better off being represented by our own people and just hope they dont get greedy and get bought by the RR. On another note, Please check your wheels on your locomotives before departing. I work at a engine house and know through other people that wheel reports have been doctored, meaning changed to look like they are good just so they can outshop the unit. If you dont know how to gage wheels go on the Domino site on the gateway and read the Safe Job procedure or SMR and I am sure you can get a wheel gage from someone at a shop. If you wanna stick it to CSX look at your wheels on every unit in the consist. I have changed all the traction motors on unit because it derailed. That unit had no buisness being on the rail. I wish I had thought to write down the unit number but I didnt. Please check your wheels, supervisors will run units with bad wheels. I found some bad wheels oneday and the supervisor wouldnt have them cut and said the unit didnt come in the shop for that so we are not cutting them or replacing them. I had a supervisor want me to read a wheel with a hand gage because the electronic gage said it was out of spec. He was trying to get me to say the wheel was okay and I wouldnt do it. On another ocassion I was told to go and qualify some bolster pads and if I didnt pass them he was. Needless to say I didnt qualify them and they dont ask me to do much anymore because they know I wont sign it off to go back on the road unless its right. Alot of the othe rmachinist will do things for them such as sign off on stuff that aint fixed or hasnt been fixed. I have thought about going to the News and newspaper and squeal like a pig on there safety practices, things that I have seen and seen done by others. Its hard to stop this kind of thing and get someone important to take notice and do something about it. All this lobbying by CSX is one problem, who is gonna step on there toes when there pockets are getting padded.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 May 2010 There are several comments I could make but I won't...I'll let the article speak for itself! http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=51817

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 May 2010 Wrong. In Virginia there are at least 400 engineers when you take the 3 seniority rosters from the former railroads (C&O, SCL, B&O Eastern (RF&P)) some might be cut back to trainmen but their still on the roster. Add the other 13 states plus DC and a few Canadian provinces that CSX owns tracks. When I left last year in Virginia there were aprox 260 engineers on just the C&O roster. If you think 13000-14000 people in T&E out of 30,000 employees is high then you don't much about railroading. They could use another 2000-3000 in transportation. A lot of crafts have been hit harder by technology 1) clerks not many left 10% of their numbers from 20 years ago computers did away with their jobs 2) track department is about 25% compared to 20 years ago machines now do the work 3) there are only two major locomotive shops on CSX 20 years ago every location had a roundhouse. Like most industries the railroads have downsized utilizing those remaining into working more which means less quality of life contrary to what CSX states to the public.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 May 2010 I had a little concern about the 30k employees, went back to the message from CSX and it is true. 30k is less than Tyson, Disney, GE, and many more. Not very many get to ride and drive on CSX. Most are selling, building,and managing the few that ride.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 May 2010 CSX has 30k Employees. And that is not very many. Now listen up 7,500 are Trainmen or Engineer combo's Who is kidding who. 5k Are Engineers. Looks like everyone get's to run Just guessing, purely a guess on my part out of 30k total Employees less than 5% are on board employees regardless of the trade. Looks like the CSX may have 1400 qualified engineers at a given time. Feel free to correct me , anytime

Name: Danny Lash E-mail: Tobykieth@yahoo.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 May 2010 Baltimore terminal sucks ass!!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 May 2010 I stand by the numbers a conservative 7500+ trainmen. The CSX UTU Northern committees were not included in this tenative contract. Thank's for the info NoMo with some rough estimates taking in to consideration half are Canadian members, shortlines, Amtrak, 1800 yardmasters, commuter service, 8000 bus service members the UTU states it has a membership of 125,000. As for 5000 engineers one must remember every new hire can be forced to engine service. So they count even if their cut back. They do have a bypass clause if that individual has enough people under them in seniority they can't be forced into engine service. In my area I only know of one person who has used it. He hired out about 12 years ago with retirements he's secure as a trainmen. Biggest pitfall for him if the railroads get engineer only road trains. Then he'll be forced into yard service with the RCO at the bottom of the roster.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 May 2010 Hey Other: 7,500 is probably a good guess. The total votes cast were 2384 if the numbers were correct...and that only covered about 1/2 the system. In the past few elections a 50% turnout would be considered about average. When you consider yard service, the ratio of 1.5:1 is probably conservative. With the above in mind 7,500 seems reasonable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Transportation_Union

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 May 2010 The UTU has 5,500 members total RRJ. Now there is now way 7,500 are working for CSX. Get it right retired one. Engineers at 5,000 on the CSX is not even a good guess.

Name: me E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 May 2010 when does the montgomery a.w.p get paid next? and do they paid every week or every two weeks? getting transferd there and would like to know so i can see when and how to pay my bills ....thanks in advance....and what is the conductor gurantee pay ??

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 May 2010 NoMo If there are according to CSX aproximiately 5000 Locomotive Engineers on CSX you can bet there are at least 7500 trainmen. Even if 10% of them belong to the BLE(T) that still leaves 6750. If those figures are correct on the vote then the unions aren't the problem the membership is. Which todays young ages of trainmen makes sense they haven't a clue about unions and their responsibility. I can pretty much make a sure fire bet most came from families that their parents/parent were non-union. Unlike my generation where we knew unionized jobs were the places to work.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 May 2010 If that's the case Hancock is way out of line...the GC on the L&N and C&O need to file charges against Hancock with International; if the don't they should be brought up on charges. Sounds as though Hancock promised something he can't deliver on. With 66% against you can't even justify a recount unless you question the vote on the SCL and A&WP, which you could easily on the A&WP based on the margin. A total of 2100 took time to return ballots...I wonder how many ground service personnel are represented by the UTU on those four flags? Sad!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 May 2010 I understand about the single system agreement but what I was told by my lc that hanCOCK said the l&n and the c&o would go before an arbitrator and he would decide which to go with I say is bs . HanCOCK and csx wants this agreement bad . There has already has been phone calls to the national office.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 May 2010 No news of the results for the CSX/UTU Single System Agreement posted on the UTU website this morning at 0812 on 5/3/10. If it's true that a majority voted it down then it isn't forced on anyone. What don't you understand about the words "Single System"? This agreement would do away with the SCL, C&O, B&O, L&N, Conrail ect....former work rules an agreements would then be null and void.

Name: Be happy in your work E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 May 2010 Did you know that=== Todd Novak ===is planing to come back to work , at collinwood yard . this skum bag was the BLE treasurer in cleveland ,and was convited for stealing money from his brothers and union people . He stated all he was doing was using for a while and planed to pay it back . sounds like every other embeleser , i would like to see what union local is going to take him back ????? do not let ====Todd Novak=== back !!!!!!!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 May 2010 Hey Con 10-20: Why am I not surprised...I suspected CSX and the UTU might try something like that. I'm no labor expert but I'm not sure CSX can cram it down on the L&N and C&O side even if it passed on the A&WP and SCL. Better get your stones out and start honing those blades...it nut cuttin' time...sooie pig! Just make sure there is a mud wallow nearby so they can cool that fire! http://www.bluntie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pigs-in-mud-wallow-300x225.jpg Isn't that Hancock facing this way?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 May 2010 Well NoMo , it passed by 25 votes on the scl and passed by 1 vote on the awp (the deciding vote was throughed out b/c he marked the wrong craft) voted down on the l&n and c&o . Overall voted down numbers 1400 against and 700 for the agreement . So now they are talking about the scl and awp having the agreement and doin a cramdown on the other two. So they say the popular vote doesn't mean shit!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 May 2010 Well now...it's Sunday May 2nd the UTU has had plenty of time to tally the votes...and the decision is?

Name: Nazi Hunter E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 01 May 2010 Very interesting article that might change Nazi Safety Programs April 29, 2010 Massey offering each family $3M, miner's daughter says The daughter of one of 29 men killed in a West Virginia coal mine explosion says owner Massey Energy is offering each family a $3 million settlement. By The Associated Press Advertiser CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Massey Energy is offering $3 million to each of the families of 29 men killed in an explosion at its Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, the daughter of one of the victims said Thursday. The offer came a week earlier when Massey officials visited the family, said Michelle McKinney, daughter of Benny Ray Willingham. McKinney said other families have received the same offer. Massey did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment. The widow of William Griffith has already filed a wrongful death lawsuit, while the mother of Adam Morgan has won a court order preserving relevant records and potential evidence from the disaster. The April 5 explosion -- the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years -- also has prompted legal action by several current and former shareholders. McKinney isn't interested in settling. "Nope,'' she said. "My dad didn't have a price tag on him. Don Blankenship don't have enough money to pay me.'' Massey CEO Blankenship is among the highest paid executives in the coal industry. McKinney said she would like to take every penny he has. "Maybe it'll save somebody else's life,'' she said. On Monday, Richmond, Va.-based Massey laid out a financial package that it said would free the families from ever worrying about money. Among other things, Massey said families would receive five times the miner's annual pay as life insurance benefits and an additional payment to surviving spouses. The offer also would include health coverage both for surviving spouses and dependent children, and four years' worth of college or vocational education at any accredited school in West Virginia for those children. Director Robert 'Doc' Foglesong said accepting those benefits would not prevent a family from pursuing any legal claims. Federal and state investigators suspect the explosion was caused by a combination of methane gas and combustible coal dust. Toxic gases have kept them from entering the mine. Officials say tests showing the presence of acetylene and ethylene, gases not normally found in an underground work environment, suggest a fire may be burning somewhere.

Name: jsmith E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 April 2010 I posted some info on here about several employee having to testify in front of the Federal Grand jury a week or so ago about the harassament and intimidation of injured employee. I have heard several indictments were handed down on CSX, I have looked several times on here to see if there was any response to the info I posted but there wasnt. I figured you guys would be happy about some info like this. In 2008 in Waycross every manager had been fired, demoted or told they had to go somewhere else. They were caught signing off work packets and working on locomotives in the ready field(doing 92 day work), so in other words there were bribing employees with overtime pay to sign off the work. An employee was injured and they let him sit in the safety office for almost a year without reporting his injury, threatened to fire him if he reported, allowed other employees to harrass him and they would not let him go in the office without an escort. They sent Chuck Arwood to take over for the plant manager they fired. Chuck would hide in the parking lot trying to catch people leaving early, he would also try to enter peoples vehicles. Ethics was called, someone came and took the DVR storage device for the video cameras because Chuck was caught on it pulling on door handels of employees vehicles. There were alot of injuries after Chuck took over, one person was fired because he put the worng date on the injury report and his friend lied and said he didnt fall, The guy had to have a disc replaced. CSX is a bad place to work, I suggest we the employee's hold them accountable by filing complaints and lawsuits. We need to keep a close eye on management and document everything and start standing up to them. Someone posted some information about the RCO operator that was killed on the CSX message board on Yahoo finance and it was removed.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 April 2010 It's like any thing else medical...the better one's insurance is, the more care one gets...until your limits are reached. Then the care ends!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 April 2010 We are making these outfits rich. This is hurting our bottom line. Why are there so much abuse on the rails? Hiding under the Desk

Name: lilbuddy E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 30+ years Posted: 27 April 2010 Sara: http://www.mtregis.com/contactus.asp good luck and have faith.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 April 2010 Good Evening, Could someone please tell me where a CSX employee from Virginia would be sent for alcohol treatment? What might he expect? Will he be allowed contact with family members? I sincerely appreciate any information you could provide. Thanks, Sara

Name: who E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 April 2010 where does the Montgomery awp run ?

Name: jsmith45 E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 April 2010 Several employees from Waycross had to testify in front of a Federal Grand jury two weeks ago. I believe some indictments were handed down on CSX. All this stems to the harassment and intimidation of injured employees. One was fired a while back because he put the wrong date on the injury report and the witness was at fault for his injury and he lied on the poor guy to save his job. I think the guy that got hurt had to have a disc replaced in his back. I hope CSX gets what they deserve from the grand jury.

Name: JAMES R WILLIAMS E-mail: jwilliams19556@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 April 2010 i worked for seaboard csx out of hamlet n,c 28345 4/29/1966 until 4/4/1986,the rr let me go they said i was color blind, it took me ten years to prove that i was not color blind, they put me back to work after ten years, i was a orange book man, the union did not try to help. i got nothing for the ten years i was off thanks to the union paying dues for 25 years thANK J.R. WILLIAMS

Name: Joe Shit the Ragman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 30+ years Posted: 11 April 2010 Damn near finally free of this company after 34 years. There were some really good people I worked with over the years and some real assholes . To the good guys , I'm gonna miss you all. To the Assholes ....For your sake I hope I never run into y'all again . I dont like jail HAHAHAHA

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2010 NoMo Yeah!!! I've read all the excuses for keeping mediocre people in high places. It seems the gene pool for executives has rapidly declined thru inbreeding.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 April 2010 Hey RRJ: It's so they can attract, hire and retain this enormous talent...they certainly wouldn't want to lose these Einsteins to the competition!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2010 NoMo I'm sure their crying to the bank. I'm sure they all feel their worth much more it's the American CEO way. It is a shame that the CEO's whose corporations recieved TARP monies made a lot more in compensation. Those banking, insurance, and Wall St CEO's who need to be tarred and feathered and run out of town. CEO compensation isn't equal by any means to the performance of a corporation. The piss poor excuse that is made that it is based on the Fortune 500 shouldn't hold weight anymore. That maybe change in the higher echilons might be a good thing.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 April 2010 It's a pity party in the executive suite...Mike's got plenty of company...that river of tears may not have crested yet! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36167502/ns/business-us_business/

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 April 2010 The last of the furloughed in Louisville have been called back. Also, 13 cut-backs have been marked back up to Engineer. Progress?

Name: wasted my time with the unions E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 March 2010 Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life. Once you union morons understand this, you will move on with your lives. Till then, you will praise Obama, the democrats, and others, that demean you and your being by accepting the scraps they give you. Michael Ward understands that! Honor is self-esteem made visible in action. I am a man who does not exist for others. Solidarty my ass!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 March 2010 Yeah, cry me a river.....

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 March 2010 Yeah Nomo, excuse me while I break out my kleenex.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 March 2010 Poor Michael! http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=51270

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 March 2010 There are no Harris COLA adjustments anymore at least not in the near future. As for pay raises you just got one plus your productivity bonus check. You're already thinking about another one. I don't think there are any increases till 2011. Check with your LC.

Name: I E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 March 2010 Does anybody know when the next COLA/Raise is for the Engineer's working under the BLE/CSX SSA? We just got a 5% raise Jan 1, 2010, just wondering when the next raise is and how much.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2010 Excuse me while find my Coon skin hat:(

Name: Southwest airlines E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 March 2010 Hand scanner? Talk to an aircraft mechanic and get some skydrol. Put it on your hand then scan. Let the skydrol do its trick.

Name: steve E-mail: hmstoo@hotmail Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 March 2010 Hey Skippi! I started with CSX in the 70s and quit in the 90s. Retirement age was changed when Regan was in office. I wasn't eligible for full benefits until I was 66 & 9 months.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 March 2010 Productivity up...labor costs down. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35705431/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 March 2010 One more Spencer to go, then I will really celebrate....

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2010 Hey Loco 30+: Every last one of them needs to be voted out...whether Demo. or Rep., Senator or Congressmen none of them are worth a shit. It's truly embarrassing. I can hardly wait until the fist fights break out in the chambers. I was saving this for the Union leadership but it's appropriate for these buffoons too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8qeacBZGA4 Forgive the filibuster!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 March 2010 NoMo It appears Bunning was playing partisan politics in the begining till the news media backlash. Then the Repo's turned against him. They're all hypocrits Repo's and Dem's alike.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 March 2010 Hey Loco 30+: I thought Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby were a the two most pompous asses from the same state (Alabama) in the Senate...Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning have them beat by a long shot. I can understand why he's not running for reelection...besides two terms is long enough!

Name: tripod E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2010 Should Congress make it easier for workers to form and join labor unions? Yes 7 No 68 Not Sure 25 Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/2/832988/-The-2010-Comprehensive-Daily-Kos-Research-2000-Poll-of-Self-Identified-Republicans Historically labor unions have indisputably been the best friend that working people have ever had. More recently that's open to debate. In any case, follow the link for some real proof that the country is screwed. This is also kind of interesting: http://www.truthout.org/the-home-depot-misery-index57291

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 March 2010 Retraction: It seems Sen Bunning (R-Ky) wasn't playing partisan politics it appears he was just being an arsehole because he can. He's retiring this is his last term in the Senate. He voted against extending COBRA and unemployment benefits on the Senate Finance Committee unless the money came from the bailout TARP funds. Bad judgement on his part to play renegade with the lives of 400,000 Americans. Along with this bill was financing for the DOT infrastructure programs. The DOT now has to furlough 2000 people all work will stop because federal inspectors won't be on the job. That means contractors will have to lay off workers. Let's give a big thumbs down to Sen Bunning. We should have a special Brown Banana award for those who achieve notoriety beyond the raiload and CSX.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 March 2010 I've survived in the American workforce during 8 presidents starting with Nixon and Clinton by far was the best. I've been through 4 recessions. I have never witnessed such dirty politics like the past 10 years. People like Sen Bunning (R-Ky) who through partisan politics held hostage and denied unemployment extension benefits for 400,000 Americans this past week. That is unexceptable. I'm sure that will cost the Repo's some of their gains they've had in the past year. The American people want change which they won't get from either party. Both are deaf, dumb, and blind. Seeing my railroad carreer is coming to a close my politics will also shift in another direction. That's the positive side of being an independent no loyalty to anyone.

Name: Jesus Nomo E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 March 2010 LOL! Nomo said this....... Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2010 Hey Con 1-10: Lets get one thing straight...first I'm not your buddy. Secondly, at 28 your not old enough to know the difference between shit and shinola. If you've been in furlough status for four years, why would you hang around the crew room and make yourself mad by watching the old heads tally their earning statements? Or better yet, why haven't you taken a transfer...I'm sure they have been offered. Why are the "young guys" suffering to feed their family? Perhaps you can favor all of us by telling us what kind of trucks they drive and how they live. The old heads can drive those trucks because their families are grown and hopefully off their dole, their houses are paid for. Their expenses are less than a young man with a family. Life is full of choices...you can save and invest money now or you can spend it on impressing your friends. Make the wrong choice now and you'll regret it later. Any one under 30 has never seen truly tough times. Times are tough and will get tougher before they get better, sounds like the regrets are starting. By the way, I have a '01 GMC Yukon and a '99 MB ML450 and the money I've saved on notes, insurance and tags will pay for a nice extended family vacation in Europe this summer or buy one of my Grandchildren a P.A.C.T. contract which will pay for their college education. Like I said, it's their money and they can spend it however they want to. If they are suffering however, do you think it might be because of the choices they made? What he failed to add is that he is full of shit and that he was selling his furniture to his step son not that long ago. The step son that still works for railroad.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2010 CSX stock listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange...why? I guess CSX has run out of suckers at home or maybe they want to offer a derivative or hybrid security that the SEC won't approve!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2010 This should settle the argument about NAFTA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement NAFTA is a Treaty and can be repealed at any time by a vote of the Senate. It hasn't happened yet...don't hold you breath waiting for it to be repealed.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 March 2010 You Moonbatties are the crybabies, I'm just stating the facts xD You said, "Nixon was the first president to visit China. Every president since has had some dealings with China including Ford, Carter, Raygun, Daddy Bush, Clinton, Baby Bush, and Obama." Again, "During periods of American economic expansion in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the number of private-sector jobs increased about 3.5 percent a year, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute," No problem during Nixon. In this article it started with Clinton. And Clinton SOLD stuff to China while he was there :D I would like to see this article updated to today and see how much a bigger mess it is. From 2003 http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_12102003/ You need to layoff the Kool-Aid flavored NyQuil and post only at night for best clarity since bats are only active when the sun goes down. TIP: Question, When does a Moonbat run out facts to support it's argument? Answer, When it resorts to name calling and gets critical about other's spelling and grammar.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 March 2010 Uh oh, don't look now but your job is going to Cambodia :( http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010030132846/Business/csx-launch-set-for-may-official-says.html CSX launch set for May, official says Monday, 01 March 2010 15:03 Nguon Sovan THE Cambodia Securities Exchange will launch officially in May, officials said Sunday. Hong Sok Hour, general director of the Cambodia Securities Exchange, said that the process to establish the CSX would be completed in early April and officially inaugurated in May. “We’re preparing to register [CSX] at the Commerce Ministry. After it’s registered, we will apply for a licence at the SECC, possibly sometime next month,” he said, referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia. An unnamed SECC official told the Post on February 11 that the CSX would be inaugurated this month. The exchange would be housed at an as-yet-undecided temporary location ahead of the launch of trading at a new four-storey building in Camko City, a development on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. “We do not want to disclose anything about the interim building for CSX because it’s under negotiation,” said Hong Sok Hour. SECC Director General Ming Bankosal said Sunday the CSX licence would not take long to process, and that the procedure had already been discussed.

Name: rel'd women of B'ham E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 March 2010 Great news everyone, yeah!!!!!yeah!!!!!!heah!!!!! Danny Spencer has been fired as a CSX officer, the days of fucking with peoples wifes, chickenshit failures, lying to everyone, stepping on toes has finally caught up with old Danny. Too bad he did'nt get fired completely. Would have been nice to have seen his seniority taken away so he could see what it feels like to be on the other end of things for a change. Ever heard of 'Karma' Danny? well you finally got yours.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 March 2010 Apparently your to ignorant to realize American corporations were already moving down south of the border before NAFTA. It was for the cheap labor. NAFTA was a left over bill from Daddy Bush when Clinton took office as was the Brady Bill. It still doesn't excuse during the Shrub days in the new millenium corporations sending customer service & tech jobs to India, Pakistan, Taiwan ect...for cheaper labor cost. Opinions are like assholes everybody has one. Some like you are a bigger asshole.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 March 2010 You sound like a cry-baby Repo. It's always the democrats fault. Sure, NAFTA (North American Free Trade Aggreement) came about during Clinton he should of veto the bill. Then again the Repo's controlled congress they voted it in. That has nothing to do with shipping jobs overseas apparently you haven't a clue. Nixon was the first president to visit China. Every president since has had some dealings with China including Ford, Carter, Raygun, Daddy Bush, Clinton, Baby Bush, and Obama. I tried to not use to many big words to confuse your tiny cranium.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 March 2010 R U OK? You are rambling on like a homeless man. We are talking about shipping American jobs out the US like NAFTA And selling US technology secrets to the Chinese. Clinton's changes took time and worked i'ts majik thru the "W" years and still is. Ever hear of the word, "Moonbat"?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 March 2010 I think your math is a little off. The last decade from 2000-2008 was George "The Shrub" Bush not Bill Clinton. Typical Repo bullschidt. The Clinton years were properous for the middle class even with a Repo controlled congress. Things really didn't go downhill till the Repo's controlled the WH and congress in 2000. This countries troubles started in the early '70s with Nixon then escalated with Carter who got elected because the Nixon years were corrupt and this country needed someone who didn't have skeletons hidden in their closet. Carter like Obama didn't have the political connections needed to straighten out the country. By the time Raygun took office it was a mess and it got worse. Raygun stopped using any regulations we had to control the banking system and Wall Street. Interest rates for homes were 14% families were homeless and Raygun toppled the unions when he fired the Air Traffic Controllers. Raygun over spent on weapons to compete with the Russians. He gets the glory for defeating the USSR but if they could of held out we would of gone bankrupt. It was a difficult time in this country. I saw the same pattern with The Shrub and his illegal war in Iraq. We are so far in debt my great-grandchildren will still be paying it off.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 February 2010 During periods of American economic expansion in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the number of private-sector jobs increased about 3.5 percent a year, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, a research firm. During expansions in the 1980s and ’90s, jobs grew just 2.4 percent annually. And during the last decade, job growth fell to 0.9 percent annually." You can thank Clinton for the last part. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gcnXuUYpc

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2010 This article is worth reading... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35504954/ns/business-the_new_york_times//

Name: averagejoe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 February 2010 still furloughed cubby your probalby right about hearing about csx starting to hire again while they have people furloughed. the union does nothing about it though becuase once you are hired you have to join the union or face bieng fired so yes i have said it once and will say it again the union cares for itself as long as they get thier dues they dont care where it comes from csx can hire and furlough as much as they want as long as a certian number of each respective union members are forced to pay dues the unions dont care just like the company as long as they get thiers. people bitch about csx and god knows i do too i dont even work their used to be a dream but i am a very astute young man and after carefull reading i came up with what i just said. as long as the unions get thiers what the hell ever to the members now im not saying do away with the unions im just saying as long as there is enough members in service for the unions to still be profitable there will be no change for the better of the working class men, no strikes, no arguments hell it seems like anymore you feel lucky to have the chance to sacrafice a finger to save a arm so i ask all of you is that the meaning of a union give them a little to sacrafice livelyhood what happens when we run out of fingers then they take the arm and we feel lucky they didnt take the other arm guys there isnt an end im not asking for answers just trying to see if you can see where im coming from im likel the control i look on from the outside read the contracts and weigh the options and the options are as i just stated

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 February 2010 Please Read if cut back or flowed back Open enrollment begins November 1 for BLET Short Term Disability plan CLEVELAND, November 2 — Open Enrollment for 2010 under the BLET’s Short Term Disability insurance begins on November 1, 2009, and runs through December 15, 2009. If you are a locomotive engineer working on a railroad that participated in the Wage Rules portion of the national agreement dated December 16, 2003, your coverage under Part A (described below) of the BLET Short Term Disability Plan will automatically continue. Last year, if you opted out of Part B coverage (also described below), then you can opt back in during this enrollment period. If you currently participate and wish to opt out of Part B coverage, you can also do so during this enrollment period. Part A — Non-Occupational Disabilities Effective January 1, 2010, there will be no changes to Part A coverage: • Your eligibility and $40 premium is submitted by the railroad on a monthly basis. • Part A pays $402 per week for non-occupational disabilities only. • Occupational disabilities are not covered. • Each eligible member is insured for $50,000 of Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage. Part B – Occupational Disabilities Effective January 1, 2010 there will be no changes to Part B coverage: • Part B is voluntary. Participation in this additional occupational coverage is not required. • The weekly benefit for occupational disabilities is $402 per week. • Each eligible member is insured for $50,000 of AD&D coverage. • The benefit is not subject to repayment upon receipt of a FELA settlement (no repayment after a personal injury settlement). • The benefit is not considered taxable income. • The cost is $23 per month and will be payroll deducted with your monthly union dues. NOTE: UTU members working as engineers are eligible for Part A and may purchase Part B coverage by making an annual payment of $276 to the BLET Trust Fund. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT: • Eligibility for Part B is dependent on your eligibility for Part A. In order to be eligible for Part A, you must have** ****seven starts in a month with one start as an engineer.************ If you are furloughed to train service and become ineligible for Part A coverage, you must notify the Secretary-Treasurer of your local division immediately. At that time, you have three options: 1. Continue coverage of Part A and Part B by paying $40 directly to the BLET Trust Fund by the 10th of the month and continuing payroll deduction of $23 for Part B. Coverage may only be continued for six months under this option. If you choose this option, you will need to contact the Plan Administrator (information below) for additional instructions. 2. Discontinue coverage of Part B temporarily until you return to engineer status and become eligible for Part A. An engineer, who loses Part A coverage due to no fault of his own, may resume coverage for Part B once he returns to engineer status and becomes eligible for Part A. You must keep the Secretary-Treasurer of you local division informed of your status. 3. OPT-OUT of Part B by completing an OPT-OUT form. If you choose to opt-out of Part B, you may only resume coverage during a subsequent annual enrollment period. If you currently do NOT participate and choose to do nothing, you will continue to be only eligible for Part A coverage. • If you currently do NOT participate and would like to sign-up for Part B coverage during this open enrollment period, or if you do currently participate and would like to opt-out of Part B coverage, you must notify the Secretary-Treasurer of your local division by completing and returning the attached form by December 15, 2009. Your election will become effective on January 1, 2010. • Members who OPT-OUT of Part B coverage effective January 1, 2010, will not be eligible to enroll for the coverage until the next annual enrollment period. Anyone with questions can contact Jim Bradford, BLET Short Term Disability Administrator, at (216) 241-2630, ext. 205, or email: Bradford @ble-t.org. A copy of the opt-in/opt-out form is available below: http://www.ble-t.org/pr/pdf/STD-opt-inout.pdf d if cut-back or flowed-back

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 February 2010 Re: rate of pay in Selkirk yd......same as daily rate in any former Conrail territory...203.29 daily...19.48 more for robo...

Name: Cee E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 February 2010 From past experience: The vast majority of comments or discussion on any forum or web site you will see are going to be against the contract. This will get ratified through crew room and locker room discussions by those who know very little about it. Where the only voices you will hear are the loudest. The ones that are usually full of shit. Good luck voting this one down.

Name: moving E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 February 2010 i being transfed to baltimore in the next 2 weeks does anyone have any advice, or know anything about baltimore work conditions? PLEASE help ...........

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 February 2010 Does anyone know the rate of a day's pay in Selkirk yard?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 February 2010 One issue that has been brought up at the union meetings has been the excessive amount of dicsipline that is being doled out by CSX. It occured to me under the SSA if a person has been charged and assessed time wether overhead or time in the street they are not entitled to the 50% 401K plan match stock award under the yearly bonus. At my terminal just about every engineer has been brought up on charges no matter how minut. CSX has successfully manipulated the SSA agreement. The trainmen have avoided this fate. If they vote in this SSA they too will become pawns.

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 February 2010 75% of CSX stock is owned by institutional investors, so, most people are not aware they own CSX stock. Management manipulates it, pump and dump, is their mantra.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 February 2010 Usually but not always, they increase the dividend when the announce the split. Depending on the ratios they might also announce a big stock buy back to offset the dilution caused by the split. That allows management to brag about creating shareholder value and justify their salaries and enormous bonuses! This scenario is not unique to CSX...they all do it. Companies that don't pay a cash dividend many times will declare a stock dividend. It's all about perceptions...keep Wall St. happy and everybody makes money!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 February 2010 Stock split? I've never seen it happen until it's at least $75 a share. Then I've seen it split 3 to 1 down to $25. It was a good thing the stock quickly escalated people made money. Just because they'll give you shares over a contract doesn't mean they'll manipulate it that drastically the stock is only at $44.90. They do have other share holders to appease. Then again I own quite a few shares a split would double my investment over a relatively short period of time.

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 February 2010 Look for a stock split right before they issue yours. They have done it before, they will do it again.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 13 February 2010 Cond 1-10 I think you need to hear from those who have been under a Single System Agreement since 2007. There are those who'll read the cleff notes on the front page which highlights the good points and think this is great. I'm not here to convince you to vote against it just don't be ignorant to the facts. People read productivity bonus, lump sum bonus, shares of stock ect...for some that's all they need to know. Quit this bullschidt of oldhead and newbie it puts a big divide between people. It's not that good for the oldhead but your not thinking straight. How does it help? Productivity bonuses won't start till 2013 pay raises won't start till 2012. I would think every oldhead would be appalled at such an agreement. It most certianly doesn't help to fill their retirement investments with stagnant wages. Biggest concern for you is your generation has the voting power those are the ones you need to convince. Every oldhead could vote "yes" it doesn't matter it wouldn't pass unless your generation doesn't vote.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 February 2010 I think that it is interesting that people who are not going to be under this contract keep trying to put their two cents in. Let the conductors deal with their contract and the engineers deal with theirs. Something to remember is that hardly anyone with 30 yrs+ is going to be hurt by this contract.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 February 2010 Our union general chairmen are just a bunch of railroad puppets, there is no way the could've asked for 90% on this shitty contract unless somebody is filling up their pockets. Hope they enjoy their blood money

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 February 2010 Lloyd You state over 150 members have joined the group on FB. All I have to do is find it an I too can join, so can every trainmaster, corporate honch, railroad foamer ect...You're leaving yourself wide open.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 February 2010 Cond 10-20 Discussing anything on an open forum like FB ect...is stupidity. You have no control over who has access. Apparently you haven't read the news articles of people who have been fired from their jobs because of posting on an open forum thinking it was safe. The only secure venue is at union meetings. How can you critisise oldheads? We're not the majority voting power anymore we create no threat. You should be concentrating on those members of your generation that have been complacent. Those who have never attended a union meeting. Those who never participated in anything. Those are the ones you have to convince. There is no excuse for not getting involved no excuse for not sending in ballots start a campaign on educating people be tactful and not overbearing. The silent majority that excist is your biggest problem. Oldheads know one important issue votes count an if they pose a threat in your opinion then that's your generations fault. Your generation has more to lose and will have to to live with the changes. Our time is short. Majority rules in a democracy use it wisely or end up paying the consequenses.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 February 2010 Nomo, I'd say I agree with you 90 percent of the time but not on this issue. Places like myspace, facebook, and blogs are places for the new generation to talk about things and discuss what's going on. I'm not really a fan of any of them but when I checked they had 150 guys joined already. No one is in favor of this contract. If I read it right, it just seems like a plot to eventually cut back as much as possible and use utility men whenever possible to save paying people on an extra board. Sounds like a nightmare for anyone who has been with CSX for less than 10 years. I will definitely be checking the big N.O when I get my ballot in the mail...if it comes.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 February 2010 Hey Con 10-20: I totally agree that everyone needs to discuss the UTU SSA. However, discussing it on Face Book, Myspace or Twitter won't get it done. I'd be emailing and calling my Local and General Chairmen as well as International. I would mark off if I had to and attend every regular and special Local meeting. Discuss what direct questions should be asked in each different Local meeting over Face Book etc. You can bet you won't get a direct answer. Discuss what option, if any, you have under the UTU Constitution for removing the LCs and GCs. Discuss any legal options the membership has against the UTU. The UTU has an absolute obligation to fairly represent their members, if they don't there is recourse. http://www.utu.org/worksite/member-rights.htm http://www.dol.gov/ It's too bad more people haven't been involved in the day to day operations and politics of the union before now. They're complacent until something like this comes along; then all the non-participatory members come out of the woodwork screaming bloody murder. Last time I saw this much interest from the ground service personnel was when the H&W benefits were renegotiated back in '02 or'03.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 February 2010 Theres a forem on the CSX / UTU contract encurage everyone to join and discuss the good and the bad points of the contracts join and voice your concerns we all need to stand together on this we need to start being the New Railroad not like all the old heads before us just out for there self. the Forem is on Facebook in the groups the name of the group is Trainman Against CSX/UTU Contract.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2010 Stupidity like that is enough reason to leave the employ of CSX. Add in 30+" of snow on the ground and another 10"-12" due tonight and tomorrow might cause you to reconsider!

Name: sy E-mail: hmstoo@hotmail.com Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 February 2010 In response to 'me' about moving from Florida to Baltimore. You would be better off finding a new job in Florida. The working conditions in Baltimore are terrible. One brakeman was reprimanded for adjusting his hat while walking a train. He was told he should have stopped walking before adjusting his hat.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 February 2010 hey loco 30+ plus years you are right about the ns contract . CSX wants this bid system bad , if we vote this down they will want to go back to the table . The younger men need to realize the bid system will cut 10% of the work force , so back on the street you go.

Name: me E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2010 just got the call to move to baltimore from florida panhandle is b-more working or being sent home ? please let me know i will be moving my wife and five kids to a new place and i need to be working...thanks in advance............

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 February 2010 VOTE NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ON THE CONDUCTORS CONTRACT THE GENERAL CHAIRMEN ARE PUSHING IT BECAUSE THERE GONNA LOSE THERE JOBS IF IT DONT PASS. NO RAISES FOR 3 YEAR WHAT THE HECK, WILL TALK ABOUT HEALTHCARE ON A LATER DATE?????????????????????? OK SOUNDS FAIR TO ME. VOTE NO !!!!! OR ATLEAST READ THE CONTRACT DONT TAKE SOMEBODYS WORD FOR IT READ THE CRAP FOR YOURSELF.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2010 NoMo you are 100% correct.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 February 2010 That's right No Mo if u make over your guarantee . Last half I did beat my guarantee but this half I'm not , so if this contact passes and I need off for a emergency I loose my Guarentee. Plus a 6% pay raise over a 5 year period that starts 2012 ; if u get in trouble (not only stayin marked up) you loose your stocks ! We don't even get a bonus until 2013 !!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 February 2010 Who dat say they gonna beat them Saints?

Name: JoshuaRogers E-mail: kayakguy303@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 February 2010 Vote the contract down! If you want a life Vote it DOWN!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 February 2010 I went to work for CSX approx 4 years ago.I paid $5000.00 plus room and board for schooling, lost wages for 6 weeks.All in all it cost me $10,000 plus for a job that wasn't worth squat. Quit a job I have been at 15 plus years for what. To be told I will be treated like a person with good pay and benifits! Hah! Laid off twice in the 2 years I was there, couldn't even get railroad unemployment the first year I was there as I wasn't there long enough. Was continually denied valid claims of labor agreements by them, denied my first year vacation pay. Safety was a joke, working two shifts in one day, continually being forced to do things because of producing what they want. I hardly ever called of work but employees that did were taken care of. Intimidated when I spoke up and voiced my rights. If you believe anything they tell you you will be sorry. Worst 2 years of my employment life.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 February 2010 CSXT, UTU Southern Region Employees Reach Tentative Agreement JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan 29, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT) and the United Transportation Union (UTU) have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year combined wage and performance bonus package. The agreement covers conductors and yard employees on CSXT predecessor railroads AWP, C&O, L&N, NC&StL and SCL. In addition to wage increases, employees will be eligible for payments from a Performance Bonus Plan that links that portion of their compensation to company financial performance. Affected employees will also be eligible for a stock-based Individual Performance Award program. Upon approval by the International UTU, the agreement will be subject to ratification by the affected UTU membership. "This is an important agreement that consolidates five former agreements into a single Southern Region UTU agreement that directly aligns the interests of our more than 4,000 United Transportation Union employees in this area with company goals to meet the expectations of our customers and shareholders," said Lisa Mancini, senior vice president-human resources. "We applaud the vision of the UTU in reaching a new agreement that rewards their membership when the company meets its financial and strategic goals." CSX Transportation Inc. is a principal operating company of CSX Corporation. CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the leading transportation companies, providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services. The company's transportation network spans 21,000 miles with service to 23 eastern states and the District of Columbia, and connects to more than 70 ocean, river, and lake ports. More information about CSX Corporation and its subsidiaries is available at the company's web site, www.csx.com. SOURCE CSX Transportation

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 January 2010 This big new consolidated utu contract is a real crock, no raises what so ever what kinda contract is this any ways, there just doing what they always do try to push something through before the national contract comes out, but im sure theres enough 58 year old conductors out there that dont care about raises over the next 20 years just to get that extra week vacation.( that they will pay 5000 dollars for in lost wages for no raise that year ). and crew callers looks like were gonna seal there doom in this super contract. THIS REALLY BLOWS!!!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 January 2010 Brakie " Does CSX not care about their public image especially when men were suspended during trainning." Mike Ward said reputation is everything. But he hired Tony Hitler Ingram and he fired and scared CSX employees into total dispare. Now he is gone I doubt it will change anytime soon with Brown. Does CSX ever care about anything? Should I really care?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 January 2010 I just want to ask a question and get some answers from guys who have worked for CSX as a trainman in regards to those men who were suspended during their on the job training. Is CSX required to call those men back or can they start again with hiring back off the streets, and would it not benefit CSX to come along with a buyout for those employees who are under a protected status and get the majority of those furloughed and suspended back. Does CSX not care about their public image especially when men were suspended during trainning.

Name: C&O JOE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 January 2010 Attn all suspended Trainees and long term furloughed Trainmen, As I mentioned in previous post, The Consolidated Southern Agreement which binds the former C&O, SCL, L&N, and all the little southern roads was distributed today to the LC. The carrier has promised you guys first refferal on the many Signal and Maintnance jobs that will be created to install and maintain the PTC. They project 100 jobs in my area alone. It won't be a solution for everyone, but it will for many.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 January 2010 Name: Jsmith E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 January 2010 I am in the process of writing a book about CSX and there so called safety policy, the harassment and intimidation and all the horror stories of how they have treated employees. If you guys want to share your stories feel free to email me at jsmith14449@yahoo.com. I only want true stories, not hear say or rumors. Need to be factual information. I promise you your name will not be mentioned anywhere,You dont even have to leave your name. If you setup a private email all I ask is that you check it later on to see If I contacted you with any questions. I wonder how much trouble I will get in by writing the book, I really dont care they can sue me if they want I dont have anything to lose, I had to have surgery and a month later they fired me. Please Email with your stories of this stinking companyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wonder how to write a book, send a message to a web site?? Get yourself a pad and go see them. You will never get the story until you sit in the living room with them. Call first make a date and show up on time. Or you will get the same next week as you got this week.

Name: Jsmith E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 January 2010 I am in the process of writing a book about CSX and there so called safety policy, the harassment and intimidation and all the horror stories of how they have treated employees. If you guys want to share your stories feel free to email me at jsmith14449@yahoo.com. I only want true stories, not hear say or rumors. Need to be factual information. I promise you your name will not be mentioned anywhere,You dont even have to leave your name. If you setup a private email all I ask is that you check it later on to see If I contacted you with any questions. I wonder how much trouble I will get in by writing the book, I really dont care they can sue me if they want I dont have anything to lose, I had to have surgery and a month later they fired me. Please Email with your stories of this stinking company

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 January 2010 They reached their job posting closing date and were taken down...like all of 'em.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 January 2010 I just visited the CSX career page and all those conductor jobs that were advertised several weeks ago are no longer there. Imagine that. Gee, I wonder what happened to them, were they filled or perhaps withdrawn?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 January 2010 The Unions do not know who they are sending stuff to or why. Perfect example of how Unions spend your money. The UTU spends more money on Booze and Comfy rooms, than it spends on defending any member! Check it out if you can get the numbers!

Name: been gone for 2 years E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2010 Hey Mr. "If any of you believe your jobs are coming back, or new jobs will be created, your head is in the land of OZ."..........................WELL SAID MAN!!!hahahahahahaha That right there should be put in the next union newsletter that comes out. I have not been in that crap hole for two years and I still get the news letter in the mail. Hey, they work well to start my fires during the winter. Keep them coming!!hahahahha

Name: C&O JOE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 January 2010 I wouldn't be to aginst system seniority as long as everyone was prior righted into their home rosters. I don't know how it works elsewhere, but those who have significant seniority and havn't been offered promotion isn't a big issue on the C&O because every time someone goes to engine school they establish seniority for every junior Trainman on the roster. They maintain that place as long as they don't decline it when it's offered. If they do decline it they fall behind the youngest trainman on the roster the day they passed it up. I'm guessing it's about the same everywere?

Name: averagejoe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 January 2010 you know what i agree most people on the rr are related and loved ones do get hired over more qualified people i had 2 intervues 1 the shop forman and his bitch was there to hand pick the people for the supposed recruiter a nigger who looked down on me while hiring his masstas white kin folk the second time no formen or anything only recruiters got the job that was over a year ago and still no word it was really embarissing for the first 6 months or so explaining to people why i wasnt at the rr yet so yes they do hire family for jobs that are for sure but they dont give a hoot about the imaginary jobs or the ones they know pple will be laid off from shortly so unless you were military or have high pull if you get a job there my observation is your bieng played as a fool or fucked from the get go

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 January 2010 System wide seniority might one day become a reality. I don't think it'll happen till pre-94 protected employees retire. As for moving around looking for work most of those hired the past 5 years or so aren't that motivated. I've seen several get furloughed stood for work in other places on their seniority zone and refused to go. How is system wide going to help them? The UTU still has in place the 30 mile radius rule where a person can't be forced to work outside of 30 miles from their home terminal. The BLE gave up that agreement years ago.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 January 2010 Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 December 2009 That is Pandora's Box. At the present time system wide seniority for engineers is getting some attention on CSX. The big question. How to do it and be fair an equitable? We have one big obstacle those hired after 1994. Those falling under the second UTU crew consist that forced people into engine service. Not all areas have sent people to engine service within three years of their hiring date. Apparently there are those with 10 years seniority who have not been promoted to engineer. Then we have those who voluntarily bypassed engine service because they had younger people who could be forced. The arguement is some believe it should be based on the original hire date as a trainmen. Others like myself believe it should be based on the seniority date into engine service. This becomes a matter of separation of crafts. The main reason CSX wants engineer system wide seniority is because 25% of CSX engineers on the former Conrail in the Northeast corridor aren't under the BLE SSA. CSX would like to incorporate them into other rosters to force them out of the national contract. It does away with those engineers freedom of choices. It kills CSX and the BLE to know that the Single System Agreement is a sham. It never will be a true single system till all engineers on CSX fall under one agreement. All I know is I'm glad to get out of here. When a union goes against their members it's core responsibility to protect it's members is lost. That goes for the UTU with selling out jobs for decades which backfired on it's membership like recently CSX going one man remote.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX System wide is just that, Hire date. Bid on any job that you want. WOW that is really GOOD. Most folks today can ride the cars or pull the throttle, Give them the chance to move around the system to find work.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 January 2010 Does anyone have any information that might help in a denied crossing claim...? Thanks In Advance.....

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2010 Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Baltimore, MD and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Baltimore, MD More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx - Baltimore, Maryland -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Syracuse, NY and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Syracuse, NY More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx - Syracuse, New York -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Selkirk, NY and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Selkirk, NY More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - Richmond, VA and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more... View all CSX Corporation jobs Salary Search: Freight Conductor salaries in Richmond, VA More information about CSX Corporation Related forums: Csx - Richmond, Virginia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permanent link to this job Freight Conductor - new CSX Corporation - New York, NY and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA... of training at the Railroad Education & Development... $43,000 a year From JobCircle.com - 12 hours ago - save job - block - email - more...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 December 2009 We read your post already in one section. It isn't necessary to post it in all sections.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 December 2009 If any of you believe your jobs are coming back, or new jobs will be created, your head is in the land of OZ. I personally don't and won't do anything for CSX unless I am expicitly told to do so. An example, I am told to walk to my engine and inspect it. Fine, No one can tell me how fast to walk. No one can tell me how to inspect my engine or the time limit to do it in. Paperwork? Broken pens, or the inspection forms not on the engine? I could care less. I call the yardie.......let him tell me where and how to get a pen or inspection forms. More time to relax. If I am relaxing, I can't get hurt. Oh, unless one of the many idiots that work here flat switch a car down into my track. Hard to believe but it does happen in this CSX yard. No, just don't care anymore. Don't care if I run out of time on single main track. Don't really care if I am late for work. Don't care if CSX doesn't pay me on time. My union guys will fix that for me. May take 2 to 3 years (without interest) but I'll get my money. Don't care that the radio has static when the dispatcher tries to call me. I don't move the train one inch until I fully understand what he or she wants. I am not allowed to use (and will not) my cell phone to move a train. I just wait X amount of time till the static on the radio stops. When I am stopped and a signal pops up.......I wait 2 or 3 minutes hopefully) to make sure it doesn't drop in front of me. I see a distant signal, I slow down, don't want that to drop on me either. It's just safer this way. Track speed 50mph.....45 is safer. Top restricted speed I operate at is 2 mph, which is very safe. CSX management should be proud of me, that I am sure of, because I haven't run thru any switches. All in all I like working here. Sure the hours are horrible,people show up for work late, in yesterdays clothes, smell like cigarettes teeth not brushed, but they are elite professionals. These elite professionals will show off to you and new hires by dispalying thier ignorance and stupidity of rules, regulations, and RR operations. But then my union reps or management will talk to the new hires and correct the problem,,,,,right? Well maybe the union or management talks to the elite professional and straightens him or her out. Yeah, thats what happens where I work. Never seen it personally, but "they" tell me it has happened. I feel safer when "they" tell me things like that. I am kinder to a stray dog, than to any union rep or CSX manager. I hold both in complete disgust and distrust. Both are liars, and thieves. What does the BLE do with my dues? Well in thier newsletters, complete with pictures, they are playing golf, in conference in Las Vegas, or discussing important union contracts at a nice resort location......so they can fully concentrate on the matters at hand. In closing, I,like many of you are nothing more than whores. CSX and the unions are the pimps. We get told how long to work. Where to work. How much we will get paid. How much longer am I going to be a whore? I don't know. I do know it is getting harder and harder to look at my self in the mirror. Are you brave enough to look in the mirror?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 December 2009 The carriers have been unsuccessful in having the case dismissed, but the BNSF and others continues to say the complaint is without merit...sure it is. This bears watching...it could have an enormous impact on the carriers! Lawsuit alleging rail collusion set to proceed A closely watched lawsuit seeking class-action status against the top U.S. freight railroads for allegedly colluding to inflate fuel surcharges by billions of dollars is set to proceed with seven small shippers as named plaintiffs, reports Dow Jones newswire. Stephen Neuwirth, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said it is unlikely that additional named shippers will be added to the suit by a Dec. 31 deadline. "We have a group of plaintiffs that is representative of the class," said Neuwirth, who has been appointed one of two co-lead counsels for the shippers. If the suit is certified as a class action, any shipper during the period of the allegations would be a member of the class and potentially eligible for damages. The top four U.S. freight railroads – BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific -- are defendants in the case. The railroads, which have been unsuccessful in efforts to get the case dismissed, have vehemently denied the allegations. The American Chemistry Council, a trade organization that includes many companies that ship products by rail, has claimed that the top four railroads and Kansas City Southern overcharged shippers by $6.4 billion through fuel surcharges between 2003 and early 2007. "We believe this is a multi-billion-dollar case," Neuwirth said, although he noted that the lawsuit hasn't asked for any specific damage amount yet. The shippers have until March 18 to file a motion seeking class-action status, followed by a hearing on the class certification, likely in September. The case is being handled by Judge Paul Friedman in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Investors have been taking a closer look at U.S. freight railroads recently, after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced plans in early November to buy the portion of BNSF that it doesn't already own, marking Buffett's largest acquisition. BNSF and some of the other railroads named in the lawsuit by shippers reiterated their positions this week that the complaint is without merit. "Simply stated, BNSF did not conspire to fix prices on anything," said Suann Lundsberg, a spokeswoman for BNSF. The shippers that have signed on to the lawsuit as named plaintiffs include Dust Pro Inc.; U.S. Magnesium LLC; Dakota Granite Co.; Strates Shows Inc.; Donnelly Commodities Inc.; Nyrstar NV; and Carter Distributing Co. (The preceding article was published by Dow Jones newswire.) December 29, 2009

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 December 2009 That is Pandora's Box. At the present time system wide seniority for engineers is getting some attention on CSX. The big question. How to do it and be fair an equitable? We have one big obstacle those hired after 1994. Those falling under the second UTU crew consist that forced people into engine service. Not all areas have sent people to engine service within three years of their hiring date. Apparently there are those with 10 years seniority who have not been promoted to engineer. Then we have those who voluntarily bypassed engine service because they had younger people who could be forced. The arguement is some believe it should be based on the original hire date as a trainmen. Others like myself believe it should be based on the seniority date into engine service. This becomes a matter of separation of crafts. The main reason CSX wants engineer system wide seniority is because 25% of CSX engineers on the former Conrail in the Northeast corridor aren't under the BLE SSA. CSX would like to incorporate them into other rosters to force them out of the national contract. It does away with those engineers freedom of choices. It kills CSX and the BLE to know that the Single System Agreement is a sham. It never will be a true single system till all engineers on CSX fall under one agreement. All I know is I'm glad to get out of here. When a union goes against their members it's core responsibility to protect it's members is lost. That goes for the UTU with selling out jobs for decades which backfired on it's membership like recently CSX going one man remote.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 December 2009 Just a Question? Why is seniority restriced to certain areas and not system wide?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 December 2009 NoMo Exactly!!! Anything that has a clause for opting out is tougher to get rid of in the long run. Seeing this opt out clause in the extension made people feel safer it became another round of "if we don't like it we'll vote it out next time". People aren't looking at it in the long term. Stagnant wages that haven't kept up with inflation means working more. Then not taking into consideration the new FRA safety regs that requires manditory rest. We had a proposal at one union meeting to do away with how rest days were structured. Some wanted to go from 2 back to back days off every half to one day off a week to try an circumvent the FRA manditory rest. At least with a gaurenteed two days off a half under the SSA it can be extented with early mark off at 2000 and late mark up at 0400. On the railroad no matter what happens there will be those who find fault. This new generation has to take off the blinders and start looking at how things will affect them in 10-20 years not what is good for them now. In the long run this might come back and bite them in the arse.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 December 2009 Hey Loco 30+: It's like a temporary tax that's only passed for 2 or 3 years. The only way it passes is if it's temporary; then it's forgotten about, extended and 20 years later you're still paying it!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 December 2009 People can bitch and complain all they want about the SSA. It was the BLE(T) membership who voted it in. For better words the lack of members who voted. That was pathetic. Something that is the core essential of everyday life on the railroad from wages to work rules a large percentage opted to sit on the sidelines because they were to lazy to take 5 minutes out of their life to mail a ballot. The blame rest solely on these individuals. The union brought it to us, we never had to accept it. The two biggest arguements from those who voted for it were 1) they didn't want to wait 2-3 years for the national contract negotiations 2) another dropout clause was added to the SSA for 2014. In my experience "drop out clauses" are useless once something happens it's here for good.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2009 Hey Loco 1-10: This time your beef is with the BLEt not CSX. If CSX doesn't want to pay after 15 hours great. I'm sure nobody wants to stay longer than that anyway. However, if that's the case it's incumbent on the BLEt to make sure that CSX maintains adequate manpower to rotate crews or run trains. Negotiations is at least bi-lateral, give and take. If the union doesn't fairly represent their membership, they are in breech of their duty and subject to legal recourse. The membership better get their shit together or suffer the consequences. There's nothing like a three way unless you're the one in the middle!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 December 2009 I think it will be a losing battle no matter what. This is what the company wants, and thats what the union will give them through negotiations, we've seen it all before. When everything is signed, the union will tell you how we got such a good deal. After everything is said and done, we'll find out that we got screwed again with side letters coming from all angles. Although I will agree on one thing, its time for the union to start being a union again! We have a lot of dead weight up top who aren't thinking about the people they're supposed to represent. The word is that this is going to be like June 1999 all over again. Does that mean we will also see changes even in the current SSA? Changes that will screw us even more? I've already heard that the company doesn't want to keep paying the continuous heldaway after 15 hrs. in the hotel.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2009 Why stop there? Why not consolidate the entire system? No prior rights...why would the BLEt even consider that? Sounds like the membership better hunker down because this battle will be fought on two fronts!

Name: robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 December 2009 The SSA is a piece of shit, which is why the engineers on the Conrail Northern roster voted it down. So, what does Csx do? They are going to expand the area of their seniority district, call it the Northern Mid-Atlantic District. This area will go from The Canadian border through Virginia and W Virginia, New Jersey to Western Ohio. They will implement the SSA (and the B+O agreement for conductors) on territories where it was voted down. "The proposed consolidation of seniority districts will not create any new prior rights. Current equity arrangements will be eliminated" I guess if the allmighty corporation can't negotiate what it wants, it will just ram it down our throats. Time for our fucking unions at the national level to step up, but my guess is we get boned again.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 December 2009 YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT....THEY ARE SELLING US OUT! I'M TIRED OF HEARING HOW THE COMPANY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT, AND HOW WE GOT A GOOD DEAL WITH THIS SSA. LITTLE BY LITTLE YOUR AGREEMENTS, WAGES, AND RIGHTS, ARE ALL BEING SOLD UP THE RIVER BY YOUR TOP UNION OFFICIALS. THIS KIND OF CONTRACT AND TREATMENT AMONG EMPLOYEES DIDN'T HAPPEN YEARS AGO BECAUSE THE UNION & CONTRACT WAS ALL ABOUT THE MEMBERS BEST INTEREST! TODAY YOUR UNION TOP OFFICIALS ARE BEING CAUGHT STEALING RED HANDED. PAUL T. SORROW IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE BLET, AND REMEMBER IN CASE YOU ARE NOT AWARE, HE IS THE MAN WHO NEGOTIATED THE SSA FOR CSXT. WHO DOES THE SSA BENEFIT MORE, THE MEMBERS OR THE CARRIER? PEOPLE BETTER OPEN THERE EYES!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 December 2009 Happy Holiday's to all my Union Brothers. Now that we have Demecrat White House and Congress, when do the good times start. SSA agreemet sucks and congrats to rhe conductors for now being the highest paid man on the crew. Merry Christmas to our contract negotiators for the SSA sell out. I'm sure your family has plenty of presents to pass around.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 December 2009 Merry Christmas to all my union brothers & sisters who just wanna go to work, do there job, get paid in a correct manner, and last but not least...not get hurt. December 24, 2009.......and CSX STILL SUCKS!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 December 2009 Everyone settle down. The UTU and BLET are looking out for our best interest(s), they don't care about dues, they care about us! Without the support of these Unions we would be making $8.00 an hour. Think about it.

Name: C&O JOE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 December 2009 To the loser who says CSX treats lumbee indians unequal: You say CSX has fired 20 of the 60 of you. Here's a news flash genius, CSX is firing everyone! It dosn't matter if you're black, white, yellow, red, or blue, CSX fucking hates us all equally! They do not discriminate in who they fire or follow around and harass. You're Engine ass better be saying over and out like everyone else or your gonna get the same treatment everyone else gets. I think the real issue here isn't that you're kind is being treated unfaily, it's the fact that your being treated like everyone else and not SPECIAL as your accustomed to. It's just like the cival rights movement over the last 15 years or so. They hide behind the banner of "equality" when in reality they achieved that long ago and the modern agenda is a really a push toward supremacy. I don't buy the shit you're trying to pass off as discrimination. In really you're mearly reaping the benifits of true equality, CSX style.

Name: averagejoe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2009 hey there guys it is the christmas season all times for happiness lol one year to the day csx told me i have a job but guess what no job the sad part is that i actually thought i would get a job seeing as my daddy didnt work for the rr, i wasnt in the military because i couldnt decide what i wanted to do for myself, or i dont like to suck on big hard harry jew peckers so to all you semi rich dick merry fuckin christmas tell csx to blow me cuase i still wont blow them for a job

Name: JJ Boyd E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2009 Just found out thet a long time fellow employee at collinwood ohio yard in cleveland has a snitch . he pretends to be your freind and the rats you out to the company . Conductor JIM BOYD may you rot in hell . the trainmaster are bad ,But you come from behind and stab your brothers in the back !!!! You better work in a well lighted area Jimmy boy

Name: sad E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 December 2009 i have heard that in the start of 2010 , everyone will be back to work. has anyone heard about this if so please let me know .....

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 December 2009 Dear All- I post this link for your consideration and comment: http://www.yardlimits.com/forums/legal-news-announcements/18954-bringing-light-sense-dlc-process.html Take Care & Be Safe.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 December 2009 ZOMG Tony Ingram is retiring at the end of december

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2009 Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2009 Hey Other: "Furthermore were does your sense of entitlement come from? What are you owed?" Let me see..."The Great Society" perhaps you're old enough to remember? Welfare, food stamps, public housing, Social Security, WIC, aid to dependent children, unemployment insurance and the list goes on and on. Although most of these programs existed before 1964, they were all greatly expanded after Johnson's reforms and the advent of the "Great Society". Everyone over the age of 45, two maybe three generations, is a child of the "Great Society", that's a huge percentage of the U.S. population. Money talks and bullshit walks, so as long as there are politicians there will be entitlement programs. They may ebb and flow depending on which party is in power but like taxes entitlements are here to stay! ********************************************************************** Oh you are so correct with the above statement, and to that we are a demon of our own creation, and only getting worse in today’s society of me first and something for nothing. No one has a good work ethic anymore and this was created by all of us who tried to provide for our families better than was provided for us! With all the programs that you mentioned above you as well as every one else are entitled to but, with that being said in the private work force what are you entitled to? Like I said before a paycheck? That’s it! I have had a pretty fortunate life provided by myself doing what is expected of me by myself and my family. This has been passed on to my children as well to create a sense of ownership in there future knowing that no one else is going to do it for you, so don’t expect it. Sadly this is not the case in today’s times everyone from GM to my neibores are looking for handouts. This has taken all of the accountability and responsibility out of the decisions we make making it easier to blame someone else when we fail. I sorry I don’t by it. All this attitude does is allow some one else to pay for your mistakes. This also confirms my last post but because I speak of accountability and responsibility I could not possibly be right, it’s always some one else fault that you did something wrong or the decisions you made didn’t work the way you planned… Its time people stand up and are accounted for… and stop crying about it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2009 Are you all really this pathetic? If you hate CSX this much really make a statement and quit. No; that’s what I thought just a bunch of cowards bitching about a company that you work for, imagine that. I might not be seeing the whole picture here but I know enough about unionized work forces to know that you have it very well if you still have a paycheck in this economy were layoffs and furloughs are the norm these days. Furthermore were does your sense of entitlement come from? What are you owed? I don’t work in your industry but a very similar field, were safety and on the job awareness is of the utmost importance, and if not respected in can have life ending consequences so safety is first and foremost your responsibility! With that being said back to my original questions what are you entitled to? What are you owed? Let me tell you so you don’t hurt yourselves thinking about it…..It’s a paycheck, its that simple, if your work your entitled to get paid, that it. If your looking for someone to blame, I have an idea, blame yourselves. If you read this and listen this is true. When was the last union meeting you were at? Do you even know were the meetings are, on what day and when? This is how you are to blame, no participation in your own labor organization and there for your local officers are elected on a good ol’boys club way of doing things, they are in it for themselves and only themselves, but you put them in there. Do you understand how your General Chairman & Vice General Chairman are elected? Here’s a hint by the people who are in the local positions that you elected. Now these people who are looking out for #1 and that isn’t you have free rein to put in people just like themselves in the next level the labor organizations to which you pays dues, oh I almost forgot offices are probably right next to the companies main offices, correct? I wonder why that is, let me tell you because they can! Because you allow it! Because of your lack of interest in your own local, were you pay dues to, were you don’t care what goes on at…….. So back to what started this rant, just resign I am sure that will fix all of your problems at least with CSX it will. No you won’t do that though; why; because they aren’t handing out 60-70K or more a year jobs every day, that’s why! So bitch all you want to because most of you are just hypocrites coming on here to bitch at how bad you have it working for this company that gives you a paycheck so you can provide for yourself and your family. That’s right I’m wrong, here’s an idea, if it’s that bad were you are get up go look yourself in the mirror and blame him, then get involved locally and do something about it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 28 November 2009 when are we gonna stop fighting each other? and start going after the railroads? do you know you can sue your officals in court for ? or make their personal lives miserable? hey? they wanna fuck with your job and your family ? lets start fucking with them? do it in a way no one will ever know? catch them in any act? go after them in your off time? dont stalk them but? well you get the idea ? you guys that are apes better wake up? officials are not your buddies

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 November 2009 Here they go again...best thing that could happen to the UTU is decertification...save all the members a lot of money! http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=49790

Name: Big Railroad Johnson E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 November 2009 NoMo When were you ever at Hawethorne? By the way do you really know how to use adjectives correctly. This is a FACT Base Company aka CSX Yea Right!! Sounds absurb? I would find your thinking is out of line just like the adjective of preposterous in your post below. Big Railroad Johnson

Name: US Justice Department E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2009 The following article is proof that millions of dollars in FELA (Railroad employee injury claim) do NOT go to the injured railroad worker - they go to GREASE THE GREEDY PALMS of the Unions, Railroads, and lawyers around the country. This is just the tip of the iceberg - it is NOT an 'isolated' incident.... railroad carriers, including CSX, spend BILLIONS a year on FELA claims, about 20 TIMES that spent by comparable state workers compensation (non-railraod FELA type) employee claims. It does not take a rocket scientist to see this payment imbalance is VASTLY out of whack. So, WHY IS THERE SUCH AN IMBALANCE OF PAYMENTS? What do FELA claims cost so much more than identical state claims? For every $100 a state system pays, FELA pays $2,000.00 For example, over the course of one year the UP paid out $5 Billion in FELA claims (yes, $1.5 billion!!), while state compensation programs with the same number of workers with the same injuries paid out $300 million - by any calculation, that difference is statistically IMPOSSIBLE - unless there is a MASSIVE KICKBACK PROGRAM in place and running smoothly wtihout interuption. Where does all that FELA money go - billions of dollars of overpayments between the four big railroad - UP, NS, BNSF, and CSX????? It sure doesn't go to the injured railroad workers. Railroad Managers, Directors and Executives in charge of administering FELA claims are in the absolute unchecked perfect position to take HUGE kickbacks from Unions, and from Union appointed FELA attorneys - everyone gets rich in this game....Unions get a kickback from FELA attorneys, FELA attorneys get pumped up settlement awards approved by railroad execs. Yes, you can bet that CSX FELA claims executive get kickbacks from both FELA attorneys and Union bosses. THIS IS WHY FELA CLAIM PAYMENTS ARE 20 TIMES HIGHER THAT STATE RUN WORKERS COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, and is why the Railroad 'system' will NEVER get rid of FELA - it is TOO DAMN LUCRITIVE FOR THE CROOKS TO GIVE IT UP - at the sole expense of the stockholder AND the injured railroad worker. For decades we have heard about how 'fake' railroad workers' injury claims have driven up the cost of FELA payments. Now you know its BULLSHIT!!!!!! The whole damn FELA system needs to be investigated and the crooks need to be cleaned out!! Here's the blurb posted earlier by Bubba. Trust me, the BLET president is NOT the only one getting rich off the FELA system - there are hundreds of others who are getting kickbacks too. If the BLET's president spills his guts to cut a deal, many more heads will roll - and you can bet it will include a cadre of union AND railroad executives as well as a boodle of corrupt lawyers... If you who are reading this know of similar illegal FELA kickback schemes, contact your local U.S. Department of Justice field office. **************************************************************** BLET PRESIDENT ARRESTED ON BRIBE CHARGE ( press release issued by U.S. Justice Department, Eastern District, St. Louis, Missouri). Edward W. Rodzwicz, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, was arrested on a federal complaint charging him with bribery, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael W. Reap announced Oct. 13. Rodzwicz is the sitting president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), a national labor union with over 55,000 U.S.A. railroad members. It is a division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). According to affidavit filed with criminal complaint, BLET maintains a list of designated legal counsel (DLC), who are recommended to their membership to handle injury cases under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA). DESIGNATION AS A DLC GENERATES VERY LUCRITIVE BUSINESS FOR (UNION) DESIGNATED FELA ATTORNEYS. The national president of the BLET has final authority over the designation of FELA attorneys. In February 2009, an internal compliance committee recommended that a particular DLC attorney for the BLET should lose his designation, due to alleged violations of DLC Rules of Conduct. On March 10, 2009, Rodzwicz approached that attorney in Little Rock, Ark., and solicited a payment from that attorney in exchange for allowing him to retain his DLC designation. The DLC attorney contacted the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General. In subsequent meetings at the attorney's office in St. Louis, and at Harrah's Casino, Las Vegas, Rodzwicz solicited and agreed to accept a cash payment of $10,000 from the attorney, plus the promise of an additional cash payment of $10,000 after Rodzwicz allowed him to retain his designation. Rodzwicz accepted a cash payment from the attorney on April 28, 2009, in Las Vegas, and he sent a letter allowing the attorney to retain his designation on May 1, 2009. He accepted a second cash payment of $10,000 from the attorney on Sept. 16, 2009, in Kansas City, Mo. The complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Missouri last week and remained suppressed until the arrest of Mr. Rodzwicz this morning by agents with the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, at his home in Avon, Ohio. Daniel R. Petrole, acting inspector general, U.S. Department of Labor, stated: "Union members expect that their officials will do what is right on their behalf. If these allegations are proven, there has been a serious breach of the union members' trust. My agency will continue to work with the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate this type of crime." Rodzwicz, 63, was charged with one violation of 18 U.S.C. section 666, bribery in connection with a federally funded program; and one violation of 18 U.S.C. section 1952, interstate travel to carry on unlawful activity. He made his initial appearance this afternoon in Cleveland. If convicted, 18 U.S.C. section 666 carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000; 18 U.S.C. section 1952 carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000. The charges set forth in a complaint are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. October 14, 2009. ********************************************************************

Name: bubba E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 November 2009 NoMo, U the man, wish we had more guys like you around.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 November 2009 Padding his time slip while at Hawthorne...preposterous! I loved when they wanted to piss test me...rush us in and tell me to see the TM. Always peed before I got off the engine ... always made at least 4 hours of OT...sometimes I just said "times up" and left, they couldn't do a thing about it...HOS and all that you know. Learn to play their game and make money!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 November 2009 Todesengel You might recall Rick Weed got caught padding his time slip when he was (NOT Really) working as a Hawethorne Yerd Master. Now he is moving up the ladder with his GED at CSX. No where else !!!! Maybe he did something else to get some overtime. He must be doing something useful for someone.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 November 2009 Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2009 csx treats lumbee indians unequal. we are from pembroke nc and they have fire 20 of 60 lumbees for unfair things.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Must be firewater. White folks sold it to you and took everything that the many indian nation's had. Shameful, now go get them with the Casino's and smokeshops, and make em pay up. I really love it when the Fed's come a hunting indian business and can't get a grip on the money. Pay back is long term.

Name: Todesengel E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 November 2009 In response to "The Lowdown On detoit Trainmasters" The bottem line is NO one in the manger crafts ever have to suffer much,no matter what they have done.Anyone from the T&E department would be fired;these guys took early retirements,went back to their crafts or faced a demotion.They get away with murder.Ask Rick Reed;he is a piece of dung but the company does nothing to him.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 November 2009 csx treats lumbee indians unequal. we are from pembroke nc and they have fire 20 of 60 lumbees for unfair things.

Name: Soon to retire E-mail: Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for N/A Posted: 13 November 2009 I have spent a lot of time reading these posts! I am surprised to learn that many of us at CMC are oblivious to much of what happens to T&E! The T&E have my upmost respect for the demanding hours and job that they do. But, working the desk that I work, I must say I understand the frustration! Its frustrating for T&E when when some at CMC give you a hard time, but its also frustrationg for callers as well. We are constantly "monitored" I hate hearing that callers are to blame for many of the problems that T&E encounter! Many (not all I know) callers will help with what they can! But we are with our own limits as to what we are able to do. Doing someone a "favor" that is just not possible without getting a caller in hot water (sometimes suspension) is just not worth it. It gets frustrating for us when people "shoot" the boards just to avoid work! Or marks off sick just because they dont want to catch a certain train or dont want to work with who they are paired up with! After working an area so long you start to know whos who and what they do. Our job is to call the trains. when we delay them we have to answer as to why (to more than one person,) and that gets old quick! (Communication is NOT the strong suit of the company, as I am sure many of you know) Running the rosters is what we must do to try to get a crew for the train! If we dont "look" for people to work what we are delaying then thats a write-up for us! and after so many of those it goes to "counseling" and then sometimes an investigation! So yes getting a crew for a train is my #1 priority, its my job. And I am well aware that it gets aggravating for many to have their phones ringing all night! (I personally hate calling people that I know are asleep) I can go on and on here but any employee should understand what I mean. We are under a union contract just as the T&E are! A contract thats violated so often I cant keep up! To get days off the correct way is sometimes nearly impossible for us as well. Ive had to miss many family things due to that. So please try to remember that the callers are not there to "screw" anyone! We are not all bad! Please don't group us all as 1 in the same! Because I really cant think of anyone that I call that would say I am mean or disrespectful to anyone that calls in! I think most would say that I am helpful and try to get a resolution to any problems that one may have! I cant wait to see the responses I get to this! I look forward to reading them! Caller I

Name: Former CSX E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 November 2009 CSX and the union both have their problems. If you are sick of paying your union dues....look into the Beck Law. At least CSX pays you. you union takes you money with no payback. Heck you cant even vote on stuff. I thought you were supposed to be tight.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 November 2009 THE LOWDOWN ON THE DETROIT TRAINMASTERS RECENTLY ALL 5 TRAINMASTERS AT ROUGEMERE YARD IN DEARBORN MI WERE PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE BY THE NORTHERN REGION MANAGER CINDY SANBORN. THE 4 WERE ACCUSED OF LETTING CREWS STEAL TIME, COVERING UP RUN THROUGH SWITCHES, DERAILMENTS AND INJURIES. AMONG THOSE ACCUSED WAS JIM HORNER, DETROITS TERMINAL MANAGER WHO IS ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED OFFICIALS ON THE ENTIRE CSX SYSTEM BY BOTH T&E EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS OTHER OFFICIALS. LAST FRIDAY THEIR FATE WAS HANDED DOWN BY DIVISION MANAGER JEFF WHITE. MR. HORNER AS WELL AS TM GORDON WILSON WERE FORCED TO RETIRE WHILE TM JOE TUCKER WAS DEMOTED AND TM BOB BARNHARD WAS ALLOWED TO GO BACK TO CRAFT AS CONDUCTOR. THE 5TH TRAINMASTER JASON HARRIS WAS GIVEN A GOLDEN TICKET OUT OF THE DIVISION TO AVON INDIANA WHERE HE HAS WANTED TO GO SINCE ARRIVING AT DETROIT. SO WHY DID THE OTHER 4 GET FIRED AND NOT JASON YOU ASK, WELL MR HARRIS IS THE ONE WHO STARTED ALL OF THIS BY SQUEELING LIKE THE FAT PIG HE IS TO THE REGIONAL MANAGER ABOUT THE WRONG DOINGS IN DETROIT AND ABOUT HOW HE WAS TIRED OF HAVING HIS JOB THREATENED. MR HARRIS DID MORE COVERING UP THAN THE OTHER 4 TRAINMASTERS COMBINED, INCLUDING TAKING CASH FROM A CREW TO COVER UP A RUN-THROUGH SWITCH AND PERSONALLY COMPLETING TIME TICKETS FOR CREWS. MR.HARRIS SPENT THE MAJORITY OF HIS TIME IN DETROIT SHOPPING ON EBAY AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ESCAPE THE DREADED CHICAGO DIVISION. THEN 2 MONTHS AGO WHILE AT A MANAGERS MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA HE DECEIDED TO OPEN HIS FAT MOUTH AND BETTER HIS CAREER BY RUINING THE CAREERS OF 4 OTHER MEN. THE CSXT MANAGMENT AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WITHIN THE NORTHERN REGION DID NOTHING TO INVESTIGATE MR HARRIS'S CLAIMS. IF THEY HAD THEY WOULD HAVE SEEN WHO THE REAL SHITBAG WAS AND SHOVED THE WHISTLE UP THE FAT WHISTLEBLOWERS ASS. SO IF YOU WORK IN OR OUT OF AVON YARD WATCH YOUR ASS. WHETHER YOUR A UNION EMPLOYEE OR AN OFFICIAL, BE CAREFUL BECAUSE JASON HARRIS WILL STEP ON YOU TO GET TO THE TOP. (OR EVEN JUST TO GET OUT OF YOUR DIVISION)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 02 November 2009 anyone hear about csx employees stealing time in detroit, trainmasters and road forman getting fired also?

Name: TRUTH-NO LIES E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 October 2009 CSX Sux is the correct name for the local Russel, Kentucky roundhouse, Raceland Yards, and Huntington Repair Shop in Huntington, WV. The bald headed sucker that does the hiring really looks and acts like he is straight from Russia. He walks into interviews like he is being bothered to see you and thinks his shit don't stink. Unless your last name is one of his sucks your family will never have the opportunity to be able to work for the railroad. Experience and schooling does not mean anything with CSX in the Tri-State Area of Ashland, ky / Ironton, Ohio / and Huntington, Wv. I hope the Russian gets his one day as all people do. The railroad in our area really sux as they have leaks in tank cars in the Raceland yard and causes business to shut down and don't bother to pay the local businees employees or loss of busniess due to their stupdiness and no concern for human life. The big shot Mr. Russian bald head run around like he was trying to hide the mess he created. The local news media did let it get out after people in the local cities of raceland, worthington, and wurtland was evacuated and local business was close. SHAME ON CSX for not leaving a man in control of this area of the railroad who has no concern for the people living in the area near the railroad. I have lived here for 56 years and it is the worst I have ever seen it. CSX REALLY DOES SUCK!

Name: Red E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 October 2009 Hey Russell Conductor, I woundnt be worried about the restriction of senority of on Russell I2 jobs at Hinton, I would be worried about why their putting your jobs on at some place other then your home terminal! Makes a lot of since for the company to add jobs at terminal 167 miles away from your home. They are hoping you Russell guys dont take them. That way both Hinton and Russell crews lose and CSX wins like always.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 October 2009 Here's something all you old head T&E should enjoy...you know what I'm talking about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkkM7K6smQA

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 October 2009 October 18, 2009 & CSX still SUCKS! Cheap Skate Xpress

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 October 2009 Anybody know why they are restictin Russell senority on the I2 pooles at Hinton when the contract clearly says Russell men have first rights to them. Labor Relations told me that there is a magic number on the roster and that number is 2214 so if you younger than than your not allowed to mark up on them but if your older you can. What the hell, does senority even matter who cares if I'm younger thatn that if a older man wants the job then he will kick me.

Name: cindy mills E-mail: cindy2989@aol.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 October 2009 My husband worked for csx for 29 years he died in 2002 since then i have got nothing from the railroad no answers to any of my questions i am in the process of forcloser on my home i have received none of my husbands penison the problem is my husbands ex-wife has worked for the railroad in the office and she has changed paperwork at csx so i would no be able to recieve anything i cant get anyone to help me because they are all friends with her so i have lost everything because of this I can prove everything i am saying but no body will listen no body will return none of my calls i hate to say this but csx transportation has distroyed me and caused me to lose everthing my husband work for i hope one day someone from csx will call me and listen to what i have to say it has been 7 years since my husband died an i havent go one red cent from csx railroad or anything to help me in any way i am disable and just trying to live and they have been the rudest people i have ever had to deal with it seems at a time like this they would try to work with familys of deceasted employees not try to distroy them thanks to anyone for listening cindy mills 7704246675

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 October 2009 On Columbus Day while everything is shutdown up north except the RR; the UTUIA decides to announce this: http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=49273 Nice going guys, You're so full of shit a Fleet enema won't help! Mike, you're the next one goin' to prison...what will that be...4 in a row!

Name: dillweed E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 October 2009 CSX sucks almost as bad as the Unions that they own. I don't care if it is BLE or UTU- they both suck CSX D. and they both screw the Union members. I guess the RR used to be a decent job. Those days are long gone by. With the FRA hos laws in place, they have pretty much capped our pay. F all the BS.

Name: fuck E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 October 2009 yall must work for bnsf

Name: Dead Peasant E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 October 2009 http://jonathanturley.org/2009/02/25/peasant-uprising-widow-sues-late-husbands-employer-over-dead-peasant-insurance-policy/ "the employer of her late husband Daniel Johnson was to receive $1.6 million after his death under a practice known in the industry as a “dead peasant” insurance policy. Under this common practice, employers take out life insurance on employees and write off the payments as a business expense. They then collect a windfall when one of the “peasants” die." CSX do this?

Name: Thanks for Nothing E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2009 There is a lot of truth in this site. I tried for over a year to get a career started with CSX through two testing sessions and two job interviews. The jobs was for the Russell roundhouse and the Russell yard. Both were a waste of my time and theirs as it was all a put on for the public. Mr. Skinhead (the top management offical) was very obnoxious and acted as if he was retarded. During the interviews he acted like it was a bother for him to be there. Of course it was as he knew who was going to get the jobs. The very people that are complaining about working. I was willing to work any shift any hour and start with a forward look to a new career with responsibility. But instead I was treated like I was a crimminal and wasting his time for showing up to take a test he probably can't pass and never saw as he probably had the inside track for his job. I was at first disppointed that I didn't get a career to enjoy but after I found out how the positions were filled I jumped with joy. Whoever you knew the most in top management at CSX got you the job, not on your skills that could be used for the commpany's interest. Well Mr. Skinhead I hope you enjoy the people you hired and get everything coming to you. I hope the company sees the truth in you and puts you on skidrow where you belong. No wonder people are complaining if all CSX management likes the look of you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 24 September 2009 Ok. YOu win. My real name is Mike Ward.

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 September 2009 OK! I see you like to my screen name. I wonder if you are Man enough to come out and give us your real name! You can play all the games you want, but you are starting to bore the he'll out of me. I am starting to beleive this is Suckassalot that is using my name. After all only he would come up with constant anal penetration. Come on now GET A LIFE! Go play with Bonzo your wife and use your own screen name! You are nothing but a Fucking loser- What Happened to you while you were growing up? I wonder that your mother didn't give you the hugs & kisses, did she spike you on the floor like a football or did she let your father, uncles and their friends & neighbors molest you! I could go on but your not even worth it, life is short just like yourself with nobody wants to be your friend you are what other people would call a No Life Hermit. What is your pupose in life? Why do you choose to try & Fuck with my name and post your Bullshit! Forget it you FUCKING JUNGLE CRICKET!

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 September 2009 Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. We here at CSX do really not appreciate your concerns of Safety, Behaviors of Train Masters, and other Supervision Personnel. I am going to launch a missle into these concerns. I have also created a more aggressive team of Nazi Investigators headed by the recreated Home Office of the Mobile Officer I. (HOMO I). This Office will Investigat all the Claims that were posted here and forward the results to the proper Personnel for interrogation and torture, and will stick a spike up your ass. HOMO I will also Ignore all alledged white collar crime and thoroughly investigate all union thefts that have been increasing of CSX Property. There will be a change of Command so there will be total confusion such the CSX Police will no longer fall under Stupidity and Lackies- They will be deployed under the new name of Honor Organization Mobile Offfice II (HOMO II) Units this Unit will fall under the Un-enforcement Arm of HOMO I. The Newly created HOMO I Office of the HOMO II mployees are Sworn Nazi Enforcement Whores of Transporation Surrogates (NEWTS) Federal Commishoned Special Agents. I must inform all Employees that the Newly created Office is unlike the CSX Police. They are Naked Homo Special Agents they can be Identified by their issued Fig Leaves and rusty spikes just for Suckassalot. If encountered by a Naked Agent you are to give full compliance (bend over) or face formal Discipline Charges. The Office of the HOMO will also Investigate all baseless Threats, Racial Descrimination, Etc. CSX has an absolute Tolerence Policy for Work Place Violence, Racial Discrimination and Sexual Fornication. All Reports, including videos and pictures, will be forwarded to myself for my personal private review and will be dealt with accordingly. This can or will lead up to Promotion and Six Sigma training for any managment personnel, and Termination and Criminal Charges on any union employee violators. The Selection Process has already started with a few members in here by utilyzing their Information Provided and their Home HTML Connections, such as NoMo, RRJ, Lloyd, Suckassalot, Sam the Slave, Binheer2long, Goober, and many others. I am Pleased to Provide an Extra layer of Protection on our Dedicated Managers and Supervisors, and stick spikes up the asses of jackoffs like suckassalot. I would like to Thank You for taking out time to read this Announcement. Have a very Safe Day. M. Ward All stupid Employees are Required to have your CSX Idetification visable at all times while on Company Property.

Name: Mike Ward E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 23 September 2009 Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. We here at CSX do really appreciate your concerns of; Safety, Behaviors of Train Masters, and other Supervision Personnel. I am going to launch a Investigation into these concerns. I have also created a more aggressive team of Investigators headed by the recreated Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This Office will Investigat all the Claims that were posted here and forward the results to the proper Personnel. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will also Investigate all alledged white collar crime as well as Thefts that have been increasing of CSX Property. There will be a chain of Command so there will be no confusion such the CSX Police will no longer fall under Security and Safety- They will be deployed under the new name of Mobile Tactical Units this Unit will fall under as the Enforcement Arm of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The Newly created Office of the Inspector General(OIG) Employees are Sworn Law Enforcement Officials (LEO) Federal Commishoned Special Agents. I must inform all Employees that the Newly created Office is unlike the CSX Police. They are Plain Clothed Special Agents they can be Identified by their issued Credentials and Badge. If encountered by a Special Agent you are to give full compliance or face formal Discipline Charges. The Office of the Inspector General(OIG) will also Investigate all Threats, Racial Descrimination, Etc. CSX has a Zero Tolerence Policy for Work Place Violence and Racial Discrimination. All Reports will be forwarded to myself for review and be dealt with accordingly. This can or will lead up to Termination and Criminal Charges on any violators. The Selection Process has already started with a few members in here by utilyzing their Information Provided and their Home HTML Connections. I am Pleased to Provide an Extra layer of Protection on our Dedicated Employees. I would like to Thank You for taking out time to read this Announcement. Have a very Safe Day. M. Ward All Employees are Required to have your CSX Idetification visable at all times while on Company Property.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 September 2009 Your CSX Union Madman is a Homophobic Bigot. Pitiful.

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 19 September 2009 HELLO, HELLO! Safety Strike , Nomo & Others ! Have you even read what I POSTED! Damn you guys are Ignorant or Blind! I have said that we do have the right to REFUSE! Any job that can or will put us in harms way! We are all Granted this Right under the FRA. Why are we bitching when there is a route there already! The Company can not retaliate against you! Once you excercise you right to Refuse! No.1, Document the Situation and have witnesses sign it. If no witness is there then document it yourself! Try to Excersise this right with the proper Supervision! If nothing is done then Report it to the FRA! Point Blank This is our Rights that you may not know of or the Company hides from you! I am tired of hearing the Bitching! We have our Rights so let's use them! The Company can tell us 1 Thing but it is up to the FRA that throws in the Final Ruling!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 September 2009 HOMOPHOBIC BIGOTRY....

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 18 September 2009 Hey Suckassalot, The only thing I would like to scream is YOU when I find out who you are! A Bitch can run but can't hide forever. Your name will be found out & I will be more than happy to share it here! Your days are running out you Bitch Ass Homo.

Name: JLB E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 September 2009 I will have to be honest, I really wonder how many of you really work for CSX because the better majority of you sound like disgruntled "railfans" may have known the management & TM's but never got on because of your lack of education. All I will say is grow the heck up!

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 17 September 2009 Monkey Boys, Your next assignment: http://www.stinalisa.com/HokeyPokey.html Love and Kisses, Lord SuckaLot CSX Executive Handmaiden to God

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 September 2009 How I would love to drive a spike between the eyes of suckassalot! There is only word to describe sirsuckassalot & that is 100% LOSER! Too much time on his hands to be any kind of Employee! So here is some words of advice you, Monkey! Sit back & read but don't post you should enjoy it while you choke on a banana! Turn red & blue then just Die! You will not be missed at all. Nobody ever misses an asshole such as yourself! I wonder are you enjoying yourself or are you really that bored? It's time to seperate the Idiots from the Men! How could you call yourself a real man, after all you admit that you are a Flaming Homo! I guess your mother is proud of her long lost little girl! Now I must admit I was against abortions but after reading your posts you are mainly 1 that escaped! This dosen't at all excuse you! Please just let me find out who you are, I will eventually find out it dosen't take a rocket scientist either. A Monkey that you are will try to avoid detection after all that's a Monkey's natural defense. You are definetly overdue for a confrontation! I don't care what you try to respond back with. A mind is a shameful thing to waste, but as we can tell your mind is Gone! Now as for a comeback it is way to late! Once a Retard always a Retard that there is no if's or but's about it. So go Fuck Your own Monkey Ass! Obey this as if were M. Wards Directive. Remember Managers like to obey & not to disapoint a Directive, you are sure a run in a mil along with the other Suck Ups in Management!

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 September 2009 CSX TRANSPORTATION " How We Move to Destroy Jobs and the Work Forces " NEW JOB POSTING CSX HEADQUARTERS Jacksonville, FL. TITLE: HEAD MASTER SALARY: VARIES $4.50 HR - Access Card Deposited HOURS: M - F WITH MADNATORY WEEKENDS. HOURS: 7A- 3P BUT SUBJECT TO 24 HOUR RULES. DUTIES: Wipe the Asses of all of Senior Mangement. This includes and is not limited of using your tounge in place of toilet paper. Computer skills are not required, a pencil and paper is acceptable since the price of printer ink is outrageous. Must be an Alcohol or Narcotics user at all times. Must at all times think that you are better than all Unionized Employees. QUALIFICATIONS - Pre School Dropout, No Common Sense, Drools, Basic Math, Writing. RETARDS will Be the first prefence with an additional 5500 Points. College Degrees will place in last prefence with -2500 Points. This job was created for a Brown Noser who's Name is suckalot! All others Need Not Apply.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 September 2009 Lord suck a lot....a person who thinks he/she is clever, witty, etc. How sad that one who obviously suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder does not see what a fool he/she is - of course those who suffer from the disorder never see themselves for what they are. Lord Suck - you need help.

Name: Madman E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 September 2009 My oh my, Suckalot talks alot of shit! Corporate idiots are chosen and hired by the severity of retardation,isn't this correct suckassalot! The Corporation seems to be looking for a handout from the Government point blank. How much money was wasted to buy Conrail! This was a failure that is being shoved on the employees by forms of furloghs. Too bad people want to joke around with somebody's livelyhood. It does not suprise me that he talks about knob polishing, such a flaming Homosexual. I bet he's into child porn also. The way he tries to be creative is a waste of talent that makes it no wonder that he does work in Corporate. I have to ask that will he e er admit his real name or is he such a coward and continue to hide and post stupid comments! I am not even going to put myself through this Bullshit. I have better things to do instead of trying to make out his useless comments. Hello suckassalot, you must have plenty of time on your hands, I know you must be Furloghed yourself! The RRB Unemployment sucks dosen't it you have to sit there and wait for your pay every 2 weeks. The Corporate side isn't anymore protected than a tick on a dog's ass. I have seen Managers come and go for years now and it dosen't bother me one bit. As for you a speck in a Corporate world change can happen over night, in our world we can just bump, transfer etc. and still have a job. CSX Sucks dosen't it that they hired just to fire you. What a waste of a college degree just to wind up unemployed. So you can continue your useless life by posting all the dumb comments you want! but just remember we are the backbone of this pathetic corporation. Madman the Enemy of all Corporations

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 September 2009 Hello friends, I would just like to take this time to wish everyone a Happy Labor Day! It's September 7, 2009.....Although I hate to say it, CSX Still SUCKS!

Name: ME E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 06 September 2009 I got this the other day please tell what should i do?? PERMANENT TRANSFER TO CORBIN/LOYALL, KY OR SELKIRK, NY THE COMPANY IS OFFERING TO ALL CSXT TRAIN SERVICE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE IN ACTIVE SERVICE ON AUGUST 27, 2009, ON THE DATE OF THIS BULLETIN, (INCLUDING FURLOUGHED STATUS) AT THE ABOVE CSXT LOCATIONS LISTED AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERMANENTLY TRANSFER TO CORBIN/LOYALL, KY OR SELKIRK, NY. VACANCIES BEING FILLED BY THIS TRANSFER NOTICE: LOCATION DISTRICT CORBIN/LOYALL, KY L&N CONSOLIDATED KENTUCKY SELKIRK, NY CR NORTHERN CONSISTENT WITH THE NEEDS OF SERVICE, CSXT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT THE LOCATIONS TRAINMEN ARE SELECTED FROM, AND TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF TRANSFERS WHICH WILL BE GRANTED. APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM CSXT TRAIN SERVICE EMPLOYEE IN ACTIVE SERVICE (INCLUDING FURLOUGHED STATUS) FROM ALL LOCATIONS AND FROM THE CLASS OF SERVICE SPECIFIED. APPLICANTS MUST BE APPLYING FOR A MOVE OUTSIDE OF THEIR CURRENT SENIORITY DISTRICT. APPLICANTS WILL BE SELECTED BY LOCATION IN SENIORITY ORDER. HOWEVER, THE CARRIER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT APPLICANTS IF THEY HAVE ANY FORMAL DISCIPLINE ASSESSED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS UNDER EITHER IDPAP OR THE ABSENTEEISM POLICY. TRAINMEN WHO ACCEPT THIS OFFER WILL FORFEIT HIS/HER CURRENT SENIORITY AND WILL CONTINUE AT PRESENT RATE PROGRESSION LEVEL FOR PAY PURPOSES AND VACATION ENTITLEMENTS ONLY ON THE NEW DISTRICT. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PERMANENT TRANSFER: 1. RELINQUISH ALL OPERATING CRAFT SENIORITY, INCLUDING CONDUCTOR/ TRAINMEN, ENGINEER/FIREMEN AND YARDMASTER. 2. ESTABLISH TRAINMAN'S SENIORITY AT THE NEW TERRITORY UPON THE FIRST DATE OF QUALIFYING ON THE NEW TERRITORY AND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ROSTER AND BEHIND ANY CURRENT TRAINEES. 3. RETAIN YEARS OF SERVICE FOR VACATION ENTITLEMENTS. 4. BE PAID TO QUALIFY ON THE NEW TERRITORY FOR UP TO 30 DAYS. 5. RECEIVE ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION PER THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE; $1,000 UPON PROOF OF ARRIVING AT THE NEW LOCATION $2,000 UPON QUALIFYING ON THE NEW TERRITORY $4,000 12 MONTHS AFTER QUALIFYING $3,000 24 MONTHS AFTER QUALIFYING 6. APPLICANTS SELECTED FOR TRANSFER MUST REMAIN AT THE LOCATION THEY ARE CHOSEN FOR, SENIORITY PERMITTING, FOR TWO (2) YEARS. DURING THE TWO YEAR PERIOD, THE EXERCISING OF SENIORITY TO ANOTHER CONSOLIDATED SENIORITY DISTRICT LOCATION IS ONLY PERMISSIBLE WHEN AN APPLICANT'S SENIORITY DOES NOT PERMIT THEM TO REMAIN EMPLOYED AT THE INITIAL SUPPLY POINT. 7. REPORT TO THE NEW LOCATION WITHIN 10 DAYS OF NOTIFICATION. 8. IF A VOLUNTARY SEPARATION PROGRAM IS OFFERED IN YOUR NEW SENIORITY DISTRICT AT SOME FUTURE DATE AND YOU REQUEST SEPARATION (AND SUCH REQUEST IS ACCEPTED BY THE COMPANY), THE COMPANY MAY DEDUCT ALL TRANSFER PAYMENTS RECEIVED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FROM SUCH FUTURE SEPARATION AGREEMENT. 9. BE PROVIDED MEAL ALLOWANCE (NOT TO EXCEED $12.00 PER DAY) AND COMPANY PROVIDED LODGING FOR THIRTY (30) DAYS. 10.BE ENTITLED TO CARRIER-PROVIDED LODGING FOR 30 DAYS. LODGING AT THE AWAY TERMINALS WILL BE PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE LABOR AGREEMENT. NOTE: IN THE EVENT AN EMPLOYEE RECEIVES THE BENEFITS UNDER THIS NOTICE AND DOES NOT REMAIN AT THE LOCATION TO WHICH HE TRANSFERRED BY HIS OWN ELECTION FOR A PERIOD OF TWO (2) YEARS, HE WILL BE REQUIRED TO REIMBURSE THE COMPANY FOR THE MONETARY TRANSFER ALLOWANCES PAID TO HIM.

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 05 September 2009 UPDATE on Labor Day PARTy at Water Street, Jacksonville, Florida Hello fellas. We have been getting great responses on the Labor Day Party. We executives will be serving food to the rank and file, so dont be afraid to load up those plates you beasts! Beverages will be provided including an open bar with yours truly Mike Ward serving drinks and offering words of wisdom. There will also be a $1000 raffle drawing every 10 minutes and a grand prize raffle will be given away at midnight as some lucky devil will get me for the night! CSX Management- We Care About Our Employees. Sincerely, - Lord Suckalot CSX Executive Handmaiden to God

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 04 September 2009 Thank you for that typographical correction Mr. HoMo, I can tell you are a team player. We like team players especially you big strong southern bulls. Mr. Ward has taken notice of your leadership abilities I can assure you he is impressed. Might be a promotion in it for you! Perhaps you will be attending the Labor Day Blue Collar Turkey party on Water Street? I certainly do hope so. What will you be wearing? Yes, I do have to have my facials - every day as a matter of fact. My work necessitates such pampering due to the delicate nature of my responsibilities. Daily facials keep me young and pretty which is a job requirement here in the suites. Thanks for your support HoMo. P.S. Do you twitter? Sincerely, I remain, Lord SuckaLot, CSX Handmaiden to God

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 September 2009 Hey Suckalot: The address is 500 Water St.(not Waters St.)Jacksonville, Fl 32202. Of course after 30+ years you know that and you're just E-testing every one...right? Isn't it about time for your facial?

Name: Lord SuckaLot E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 04 September 2009 An open letter to CSX union people: Please come to CSX HQ on Waters street on LABOR DAY and receive a fresh plucked turkey - compliments of the Executive Glee Club. We will be having roasted mountain oyster entrees for you handsome southern blue collar devil boys. Bring a friend. Drink some beer. Have some fun. Yours in trust and family community, I remain Lord SuckaLot, CSX handmaiden to God. P.S. please dont pee on the grass.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 September 2009 It's September 3, 2009.....and CSX STILL SUCKS!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 September 2009 Hey HTL: 50+ year old woman with a wide body cooking eggs in her night gown while scratching various parts of her body with a spatula? Sounds to me like nothing has changed in the last 40 years;)

Name: htlong E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 September 2009 @Jason, when I hired out we slept in the towns peoples homes, 3 beds to a room,my engineer placed the beds legs inside his boots so no one could steal them, when called we would go to the kitchen and watch Maudie a 50+ year old woman with a wide body cook eggs in her night gown while scratching various places on her body with the spatula at 3AM. so when the younger employees would complain about where they had to stay due to the neighborhood....... I would think back to Maudie's house and then things weren't so bad

Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 August 2009 Thanks, Steve. The additional information you providded is good to know.

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 August 2009 Dear Sam- As a follow up, as I said I would, I emailed the two lawyers on exposure RT claims and both responded that they have each handled cancer and brain tumor type cases from long term exposure to diesel and other carcinogen cases and would definitely look at taking these type claims. I hope that, with the above, all your inquiries have been answered. Take care, Steve

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 August 2009 Thanks, Sam. I am still laughing. All true.

Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 August 2009 Company paid sleeping quarters for train crews is a joke. A buddy of mine on the Nazi Southern .....Jesus, you'd a thought they bought up the inner city slums. "Hotel" right on main emergency route - screaming ambulances every ten minutes, no room cleaning crews anywhere in sight and cots so filthy you'd thought they used em to butcher pigs. There is bad, and then there 'shithole'. These are worse than shitholes. Nightmares. Now the BNSF is another story. The rooms are not so bad, i hear, but they suck in other areas......they stick it to the entry level non-union employees with hobo wages and incredibly long hours - they must make about a nickel an hour on the average. BNSF management will carp like rats if they have to pay a dime over poverty level wages, and spend a million bucks explaining why it is necessary that they screw the new hires. BNSF has a sucking site, but not as up to date as the CSX SUCKS site. The Web Master over there could use some pointers. BNSF has a lot of skeletons in the closet too, and a lot of dead stinking bodies - their stories need to be heard. BNSF Management has its good ol boys club just like the rest of the roads.....sucking goes uphill, eating crap runs down hill. Neopotism is alive and well amongst the native management boneheads. SOS, different company. Like Tank says, there is sucking and then their is sucking - depends on the road, the area of sucking, and the degree of sucking that goes on. Sucking is so prevalent on the class one roads, there is now a DICTIONARY OF RAILROAD SUCK-ISMS. For example, SUCKLING: a newly hired manager or trainmaster. BUTT-SUCKER: trainmaster in training SUCK-A-BOT: trainmaster with 1+ years experience sucking up to higher management SUCK-ASS: lower level managment, (e.g. Asst. TM, Asst. Term MGr, Asst. Super, any number of Vice Presidents, basically anyone trying to "climb the corporate ladder") having huge red lips, brown nose, and yellowish tongue - constantly bows in the prone position and worships totally inept superiors. SUCKHEAD - executive who, due to years of sucking, has the head of a gigantic pussy cat, with lips that constantly make a grotesque sucking sound, as if trying to suck a golf ball through a garden hose. SUCK-A-ROO: manager or trainmaster who runs around like a chicken sucking everything in sight (shoes, hands, butts, crotches, door knobs, et al) out of fear of not sucking enough. DICH-SUCKER: CSX Management SUCK-IT-TO-DEATH: term used to describe number #1 job duty of hot nubile young secretaries in the Executive Suite. SUCK-O-METER: can be found at the exit security scanner, front door, CSX Jacksonville Headquarters, Waters Street - all managment employees must breath into the SUCK-O-METER at the end of every day in order to measure whether or not they performed to the required level of sucking. Those who do not meet the required Stink-a-lizer standard, must return to their stations for additonal ass kissing, butt licking, and dich sucking prior to being given release status. Those who fail the SUCK-O-METER test a second time are immediately terminated without notice. This of course is only a partial list of Suckisms - please feel free to add your own. Donate now.

Name: JASON E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 August 2009 I am posting this for the new bees who think they have it so tough on the road, When i first hired in the 70,s we had bunk houses to take rest at away from home terminals, Most were run by the YMCA ha ha what a joke that was, A lot of them were set up like army barracks ya know a bunch of guys sleeping in one big room with only a cloth curtain between the bunks, The body noises were discusting to say the least, And the wash rooms were also the same as a army boot camp barracks, 20 sinks in a row and 20 toliets in a row and a the shower room was the same, 1 big room with 20 shower heads so we could all see each other naked,, Yea talk about no personal privacy on the railroad, Well thats how it was ditto, And yes it sucked, I was the most happy person on the rr when they closed those discusting filty rat holes and thats what they were and some did not even have AC..... Yea man good ole railroading at its best???? I should have slept in a box car, At least i would have had some privacy.

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 August 2009 Ok, good jokes laugh like hell. My granddaddy told me this one. City Slicker drove to the country to shoot ducks. He sits in a duck blind and shoots a duck....but the duck falls onto the Farmer's land next door. Farmer picks up the duck and says, "this here duck is mine, its on my property". City slicker: "no it aint. I shot it. its mine you hillbilly THIEF" Farmer: "possession is nine tenths of the law. I'm keepin the duck". City Slicker: "I will have my lawyer sue, you thief!" Farmer: "Ok, Ok. Wait a minute. Calm down now. Let's settle this like gentlemen. Tell you what, I'll kick you in the nuts, and then you kick me in the nuts. Whoever screams the LEAST, gets the duck." City Slicker lookes at his size 12 steel toed hunting boots, sizes up the skinny little stupid farmer, and agrees to the contest. Farmer winds up his leg like a spring loaded baseball bat, then lets loose and nails City Slicker in the nuts which cracked so loud it sounded like a sledge hammer hittin a sack of walnuts. City slicker lets out a blood curdling scream that can be heard all the way to Georgia, falls down squeelin like a pig with blood squirting from every pore in his body then passes out. 20 minutes later City Slicker wakes up and stumbles to his feet and says: " ok you stupid Farmer, now its MY turn". Farmer spits out a chaw of tobacco then reaches down and picks up the duck and hands it to the City Slicker and says, "here, you can keep the duck".

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 August 2009 Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 August 2009 Steve, What would you classify as a "seriously injured" railroad employee? (are you including diseases, psyche, toxic chemical exposure?) Can you give specific examples of particular injuries or cases you have in mind? How does the "loan to seriously injured employees" program work? (what happens if the firm looses at trial?) Has your firm had trial experience? Thanks. Sam ---------------------------- Dear Sam- Thank you for your questions. I will address each of your questions individually. Question:What would you classify as a "seriously injured" railroad employee?(are you including diseases, psyche, toxic chemical exposure?)Can you give specific examples of particular injuries or cases you havein mind? Answer: Quite frankly all the discussions with the two lawyers as to the types of injuries have all been involved around orthopedic injuries in nature and have not involved exposure type situations. After I post this, I will ask them. However, the types of injuries that have been discussed, and that I know they have an expertise in, range from disk herniations to the cervical and/or lumbar spine caused from whole body vibration (WBV); knee & ankle wear and tear from uneven ballast or ballast that should be smaller in size rather than larger; shoulder repetitive trauma seen, for example, in switchmen; and carpal & ulnar (elbow) tunnel syndrome. By the term "seriously injured", it is meant that the person cannot return back to his craft. Question: How does the "loan to seriously injured employees" program work? (what happens if the firm looses at trial?. Answer: In some states, it is permissible for an attorney to actually advance monies to clients while the client's case is pending to pay "necessaries". Necessaries can mean food, shelter, and other staples. In these cases, the lawyers sit down with the client and review the client's bills and there previous income. The advances, in the case of Gordon & Elias, L.L.P. are mad interest free and without recourse. That is, if the client does not receive money from the claim, they have no obligation to pay it back. It is, in essence, considered like all the other expenses put out in the prosecution of the client's case. There is no obligation for a lawyer to do this and the hiring of a lawyer should not be based upon this. It is simply, we believe an added benefit of being a Gordon & Elias client. If the firm loses at trial, there is no obligation to pay it back. It is, in the trues sense: "No recovery....then no fees or expenses are paid". Question: Has your firm had trial experience? Answer: Gordon & Elias has never tried a cumulative case as we have NEVER taken one and, absent these two lawyers, would not begin now. Each of these two lawyers have tried cumulative/repetitive trauma claims in many states and, perhaps more importantly, have successfully handled and settled MANY cumulative cases. For me personally, I have only had to try one FELA case to verdict. As with all personal injury cases, the key to "winning" is working as hard as one can in the "discovery" phase of the case to make the railroad (or whoever the defendant is) believe that, if they go to trial, they will lose and they will lose significantly. IF there is not a reasonable settlement offer, then you should go to trial and make sure to show up sober (Joke!). But, if you work up the case properly, the case should settle. Remember this- "There's never a horse that's never been rode and there's never been a man that's never been throwed". Translation= A reasonable settlement offer should be accepted because you never know what a jury will do for sure. Lawyers that say they have never lost a case at trial, simply (1) have not tried a lot of cases or (2) are lying. I have lost cases I should have won and won cases I should have lost and all in between. The issue with cumulative/trauma claims are that the railroads must take the posture they are BS. Because, if they do not, they are afraid the floodgates of litigation will overcome them. No question the railroads have had "personal" knowledge that, for instance, the engine vibration and the seats cause vibration spinal injuries. The lawyers we have teamed up with have all they relevant documents to prove this and they do not have to "re-invent" the wheel as they were some of the few lawyers that invented the wheel to begin with (at least as to repetitive claims. I hope this email answers your questions. Steve

Name: Binheer2long E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 August 2009 And the burnette answered, "Dunno, I lost count after a Sicilian."

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 August 2009 A two women a brunette and blonde were talking, The brunette told the blonde she had sex with a Brazilian, the blonde shouted "You SLUT" "by the way how many is a brazilian?"

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 August 2009 Anybody know any good jokes?

Name: Steve Gordon E-mail: sgordon@gordon-elias.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 August 2009 Dear All- I am proud to announce to you that the our firm has partnered with two totally separate law firms for the sole purpose of handling what is called repetitive or cumulative trauma [RT FELA Claims] FELA claims. Historically, the firm of Gordon & Elias, L.L.P., has only allowed itself to be hired for "one time" FELA traumatic events. This is true for two reasons: (1) First, we have always thought that, if we cannot do the best job possible for the injured worker, then we did not want to allow ourselves to be hired by them. I can tell you the RT FELA claims, even though they are asserted under FELA, are, in fact, very difficult to develop and it is required, in our opinion, to have a level of expertise that we did not have. Some lawyers simply take everything that walks in the door but in the end that does not, we feel anyway, benefit the client; and (2) the client gets what we feel is very important and that is what we call the Gordon & Elias, L.L.P. experience. Specifically, they get the cell phones of the lawyers that are handling their claim and, where ethically permitted to do so, Gordon & Elias advances them money on their case interest free. This is a very large commitment but, we feel, is a necessary commitment so the worker can pay their bills during the pendency of the claim. We have always thought that the most seriously injured claimants want to make a claim but, because of their economic responsibilities, cannot afford to do it. The two lawyers are in separate areas of the United States and that means their experience is each limited to specific railroads. The CSX "expert" is David Lockard and we are exceedingly proud that he has chosen us to work with. We will work with him in all cases where G&E is hired and that will provide, in essence, two law firms on the client's case for the same attorneys' fee as one firm. This, we feel is also a benefit to the client for many obvious reasons. There you have it and if someone has any further questions, please feel free to call me directly at 1-800-773-6770. I hope no one ever needs our services but, if you do, we would respectfully ask that you at least give us a chance to explain why we feel we would be your best choice. Sincerely, Steve Gordon

Name: Jim E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 August 2009 You guys are losers. CSX isn't a bad railroad. Every single company in the world (including every single railroad) has its mistakes, flaws, errors, accidents, etc. Why make fun of CSX? They're not bad. If you want to talk about a bad railroad, talk about Canadian National(CN). They have derailments almost weekly and have abandoned 3000 miles of track since 1992. They are also the cause of at least one VIA Rail accident which claimed 2 lives. CN is the one that sucks, not CSX.

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 August 2009 rrj i really dont think i am a racist brother i just know that the job market that i applied in well that town has a collective african amrican count of 3 in the entire population so yes that is why i said the things i did no i got the job and was never called kinda felt like i was all dressed up and no where to go you know so no im not racist until it comes to a large corp. trying to get there affermitave action quetes off of my small town all you guys reading black and white know its an insult to us all if a person gets a job because of their race black people dont want to pull the race card just niggers black people have skills and are just as ashamed as thier nigger counterparts as we white people are of our trailer trash white people all im say is if there was two white guys in bibs interviewing 400+ black men and 2 white men for 2 jobs who do you think they would pick if you were a black man tryin to get a job in a white town that is how i felt they i got the congratulations letter lol well give you a job BULLSHIT so yes csx does suck from tennessee all the fuckin way to lakeland florida

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 August 2009 First off I never post on every section on this website. I'll make an exception in this case. Average Joe You say you're not racist. You used the "N" word right from the start. You got hired then got furloughed. Join the club. Just about everyone who got hired the past year some have been working longer longer have been furloughed. It's the economy if you couldn't figure that one out seeing you state you have a college degree. No, instead you decided to rant and rave about if more blacks were at that hiring session you wouldn't of got the job. I'm going to repeat something no one wants to read. When a lot of us hired on the railroad we were furloughed at times. Some of us got furloughed on a regular basis because of seasonal business. Some were furloughed for years. It's not a new concept that the railroads have devised like outsourcing and downsizing. It's a matter of waiting your turn to get enough seniority till you can hold a regular job. Nothing hidden in it, it's plain and simple. I guess it's a type of weeding out those who'll stay and be dedicated and those who'll move on. All you did was join the pity party club. Those who feel how unfair it is. Those who wish all those oldheads would retire. Staying on the railroad is up to the individual either they can handle it or not it doesn't make a difference to the railroad. Those that are furloughed the statistics are only 10% will return. Maybe you belong to that club.

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 August 2009 well we all sit back and take it in the ass i got a job with csx back in october and still no fuckin job yeah two niggers interviewed me thank god there were any other brothers there other than them or i wouldnt have even got the fuckin imaginary job offer in the first place so here is what i say fuck affirmative action and fuck csx and all other companies and colleges who discriminate agianst white men and women dont act like you dont know you have all seen it i know i come off as racist but i am really not all im sayin is that if i was a black guy getting the job where i was supp0sed to go to work i would have my fucking imaginary goddamn house paid for by now i guess its my college that fuckin holds me back or the fact that my daddy didnt work for the railroad i dont know so there fuck it most of you all are well you knew someone so you got your job and fuck everybody else

Name: Sam the Slave E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 July 2009 The whole bailout plan is a crass, thinly veiled attempt by CSX to snitch public funds to the tune of mega millions, and rid themselves of the liability of running an unsafe railroad. Fraternity boys dont know how to make an honest dollar, so they just spend their time conjugating syphlitic plans to steal from everyone else. It's easier than working. An Masta is de gran pappy of all dem basta chillin, sucklin de public titty.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 Here's CSX's bailout plan...didn't work last year, so try, try again! Fla. has new plan to buy CSX line TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the latest twist to the controversial plan to bring commuter rail to the Orlando area, state officials are seeking $432 million from the federal government to buy 61.5 miles of rail line from CSX Transportation, The Ledger reported. But the request is part of $8 billion being provided by the federal government for high-speed rail that connects cities with few stops. The SunRail proposal is not a high-speed rail line and would have many stops between DeLand in Volusia County and Poinciana in Osceola County, near the Polk County line. The Florida Department of Transportation has also filed a separate pre-application for $2.5 billion in federal funding for a 95-mile high-speed rail line connecting Tampa and Orlando with a stop in Lakeland. The application said the expected cost is $3.5 billion. The department is also requesting $30 million to begin work on a high-speed passenger line between Orlando and Miami that would ultimately cost at least $8 billion. Final word on the federal government's decision will come later this year with more detailed applications coming from the state this fall. For the past two years, lawmakers have refused to sign off on the SunRail deal, objecting to a CSX demand that the company be held legally immune for damages involving accidents with passenger trains or motorists, even if CSX negligence was responsible. Under the deal, CSX would continue to operate freight trains on the line. State Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, has led the opposition to the CSX deal. She said Tuesday evening that she could not comment immediately because she had not had a chance to read the department's application. The "High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail" program is an $8 billion stimulus plan. There is little mention of using that money for commuter rail lines like SunRail. DOT Assistant Secretary Kevin Thibault said Tuesday the SunRail project would fit into the federal government's scope, in part by connecting the proposed SunRail project with the high-speed rail line in Orlando. "The president's focus has been on both high-speed rail and inner-city passenger rail," Thibault said. He said the final criteria for who will receive portions of the $8 billion stimulus plan have not been determined. Should the state receive federal funding to buy the line from CSX, that would relieve state and local governments of the $432 million obligation. Various states and communities nationwide are competing for $8 billion from the federal government for high-speed rail projects. With much of the planning already completed for the SunRail plan and the Tampa-to-Orlando high-speed route, Florida may be in a better position than other states. Thibault said that even with the dispute over CSX's legal liability still unresolved, that should not affect the request for federal funding. (The preceding article by Joe Follick was published July 14, 2009, by The Ledger.) July 15, 2009

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 July 2009 Boy, your daddy must of pulled out early and squirted part of you down your mamma's leg. You're definitely missing a lot. Keep posting us old farts need a good laugh.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2009 Actually I believe the arb. was issued in 63 allowing a percentage of firemen to be cut loose. I think it was 15 or 20 percent.XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Folk's parted way in the spring of 1964. I have my termination letter and the severence amount shown. The award was most likely in 1963. I went back to work on July 20 1964 as a Trainman. I made no trips with a Fireman or Apprentice Engineer from that date until I left the RR in 1970. We had none. Many RR continued to hire, I have a friend that was hired on the frisco in 1975 as a fireman. The L&N just did not do that. The state of indiana was a different duck, a Fireman on every locomotive that moved, State Law. Later repealled of course.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 July 2009 ...1964 and no fireman? What were you? A scab on FEC? I am very familiar with the FEC, the Southern and the fireman issue arb 282. It was the L&N. States of Ky and Tennessee, ran every train with no Fireman. Yard jobs with No Fireman. Nashville Terminal ran all shift's with no Fireman. The L&N and the BLE established a training program. Qualified Apprentice Engineer's that could not hold the extra board for Engineer's were allowed to work the yard, as fireman job's were listed for them, by the company. I was a Fireman, this is not a story, just the way it was.

Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 July 2009 You haven't a clue. By the way, where did you get your GED.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 17 July 2009 "Would it be fair if their parents were laid off or fired after working 25-30+ years for no reason except to replace them with a younger worker would it be fair and justified?". i think it is more than fair why should the old head get to work and the new guy gets fires that makes no sense and it is unfair because new hires has families too your not the only one. also new hires work faster and longer hours where old farts get tired and need a nap so do you snore in the bunkhouse during shift when you suppose to be working i see it all the time. anybody over 50 should quit and get out of the way befor they hurt themselves or others

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 July 2009 Upset This site originally was used as a forum to discuss employee concerns. Over the past year or so it's been more of a forum of newbie against oldhead. To much unnecessary bitching about unimportant issues. The newbies (1-3 years) still working should be thankful that they still have a job. Regarding oldheads if newbies ask themselves one question "Would it be fair if their parents were laid off or fired after working 25-30+ years for no reason except to replace them with a younger worker would it be fair and justified?". I see it all the time with non-union workers. A good friend of mine was just let go for a younger worker he worked for commission at a lumber company. Only reason it happened that new hire will work for less of a commission. We're lucky to be unionized it's based on seniority which is all we have.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 July 2009 Hey UPSET, get in line there buddy. You think most guys who work for the railroad arent thankful that they have a decent paying job? You need to get a grip man. People who post on this site aren't posting because they are content with the fact they have a decent paying job. They are usually writing about the crap they have to put up with in order to have this so called decent paying job. Yes, you can give this job up, but couldnt you at least try and advocate change to make things better? Damn I love having time off to try and make you people see the light.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 July 2009 Ok, here is my story. You guys let me know what you think. I am a conductor new hire trainee. I went to the REDI Center, passed with no problem. The started my on the job training at my designated site. I was into week 4 out of 12 when I was told that all training was to be temporarily suspended. ( Unknown how long) I/We was told that I would receive info in the mail about health insurance, other info regarding status. Nothing ever came! I was told I would have insurance for three months after training was suspended. I never, in those three months received anything in the mail and called numerous times to check my status and was tld that I was still active and had health insurance. Curiosity got the best of me at about threee and a half months. So I called and checked again.... insurance cancelled!!! Still no info regarding termination of insurance/lay off. Nothing! So I called corporate and spoke with someone who told me " Sorry, that was a mistake on our end. I am turning your insurance back on for 4 months." I wanted proof, so I asked for new cards to be sent. They came within a week. About a month later, I had to take my kid to after hours care, only to find out that my insurance was cancelled. I called first thing the next day and spoke with the same person. They said " Sorry, that was a computer error, your insurance ended two months ago!" I was floored, telling them what they had previously old me and they said there was nothing they could do. Also, I have yet to receive COBRA info either. They asked me about it and I told them I had not received anything. At this point I was working at a new job which provided insurance that was no longer eligible for insurance because I missed the open enrollment period because I thought I still had insurance. Now because Cobra info was extemely delayed and finalization of insurance matters was delayed and not communicated, the only way I can get insurance is to pay 4 months of premiums with cobra(1600.00) or with my current employer about 2000.00. All of this was because of lack of communication from benefits dept. Can someone please help?

Name: Z E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2009 Actually I believe the arb. was issued in 63 allowing a percentage of firemen to be cut loose. I think it was 15 or 20 percent.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 July 2009 ...1964 and no fireman? What were you? A scab on FEC?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 July 2009 Diesel Locomotive Fireman. I just can not believe, any RR hired a Fireman after 1965. I do know there were full crew law's in many states, that required a Fireman on every locomotive that moved. I see Engineers on this site that started as Fireman in the 1970's. What a career that was, and contuinues to be, you talk about lucky, walking into the right door, these folks had it tough driving to and from WORK, and watching a lot of it, from a heated perch. I spent from june of 1964 working as a Brakeman with no Fireman until I left the RR in 1970. Really never missed the Fireman, Guess the Engineer did, however he was happy with the extra pay, and I loved the better seat on the left side, or best yet 2 seats, one to sit in and one to prop my little feet in.

Name: David E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 July 2009 Anyone heard anything about CN buying the Nashville division by September or October? Lets pray shall we.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 July 2009 CSX is a joke! I would be ashamed to be an trainmaster! You have no ethics or morals! How do you look at yourself in the mirror? How do you sleep at night? Remember this what comes around goes around!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2009 Lot of good conversation on the human killer 24/7. This topic should be top of mind for all RR'S No easy fixes, million reasons why it will not work. Think outside the box, how can you make it work? I do not know,I ain't even close to that smart. However someone is! Might be time to find them.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 July 2009 All 2338 articles on one big page. Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 July 2009 Goob We can't keep lowering my ratings. It took a long time to get to this point. I liked those hard ass oldtimers when I was young even though at times they were difficult. I even missed them when they retired. They taught me a lot about railroading. With some people the kinder gentler routine doesn't work not in todays railroad when these new conductors don't have anyone watching their backs. At least in my day we had full crews working your way up the ladder from head brakeman to flagman on the caboose to conductor or roundhouse hostler to road fireman to engineer. There always was someone looking out for you. I must admit the older I get the more tolerant I become. It's the old adage "My bark is worse than my bite". Lot of truth to that statement.XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX look's like a 3 is kinda solid, I understood the hardass oldtimers, just worked around them, and by that I mean they thought that I really liked them, when is reality I really RESPECTED THEM. When the Conductor called and wanted me to set out the head end to car number xxxxx on hi 5 north over the wy and shove to the plant and set 3. I was LOST!!! Engineer was the only one that knew, so I really needed him. That is where the RESPECT comes from.(Experience) Engineers have always done that, however the real ass holes would just grin at you. Ass holes stopped (BELLS) and started their own consist(very few) the rest I started on the run with no problem. I ran for switches for most and walked like a dead dog for a few. As a former Fireman I was familiar with swapping end's. Good Engineer's came to the rear end sat down and released the brake, and off we went. A few had to find the reverser, oh well you know the drill. You will adjust to retirement in about two good night's sleep. however you will never adjust to the phone when it ring's you will have that awful feeling and never want to answer a phone for the rest of your life. I still do not like answering anything except my cell, simply because I know when my cell rings it is a friend, and most likely they want to ride or drink beer.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 July 2009 Goob We can't keep lowering my ratings. It took a long time to get to this point. I liked those hard ass oldtimers when I was young even though at times they were difficult. I even missed them when they retired. They taught me a lot about railroading. With some people the kinder gentler routine doesn't work not in todays railroad when these new conductors don't have anyone watching their backs. At least in my day we had full crews working your way up the ladder from head brakeman to flagman on the caboose to conductor or roundhouse hostler to road fireman to engineer. There always was someone looking out for you. I must admit the older I get the more tolerant I become. It's the old adage "My bark is worse than my bite". Lot of truth to that statement.

Name: average joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 July 2009 okay guys i see alot of bitching about the unions but where i live unions are shit there were two factorys here one union the other not. both manufactured the same product while the union employees did it for an average of two dollars less on the hour and had shittier benifits That is the awesome part about a union in a right to work state unions dont mean a hill of beans here just something to blow your money on. im an electrician by trade and went to a tech school for two years to get an associate of applied science in electrical technology got my license and all was well went to talk to the union and found out it was shit they start you out at shitty pay and pretty much wont let you test up to journeyman without 3 years working in the union paying dues sounds like a fucking scam to me so i never joined for that fact and the other bieng that if you join the union and there next job is on the other side of the country and you dont want to leave your wife and newborn for two years your blackballed and wont work for the union again So in conclusion in a right to work state unions are nothing but a waste of money and time average joe

Name: scar E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 July 2009 When the HOS kicks in on July 16th, then CSX will call back all furloughed T&E employees, the lamb shall lie with the lion, butterflies and unicorns will dance and sing in mike ward's backyard, And Barrack Obama will save the economy by borrowing more money to throw at the problem only to miss the target again, and again. Just glad to be living in interesting times. Remember these days...Cuz it ain't ever gonna get better!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 July 2009 RRJ You came clean!!! you had a hard time with the sorry part and got that a little turned around, however you are thinking. You have now lowered your hard ass rating to a 3. If you keep this up some new Conductor will actually look forward to working with you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 July 2009 so have they started calling people back anywhere else?

Name: mike D E-mail: md777@sbcglobal.net Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 July 2009 can you sue a local chairman and where do you start

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 July 2009 Goofy I need to proof read better before hitting enter. I noticed the mistake "smake" instead of "smack" after it was posted. I was hoping your meds kicked in or your glasses were dirty.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 July 2009 Regardless of how hard you try..you can't fix stupid!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 July 2009 Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 July 2009 Wow!!!!Goofy you rated me a four. I could imagine me on a golf course your head on a golf tee I raise my golf club yell out "fore" and smake your tiny little cranium down the fairway. I love happy endings. Don't you?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Hey Big man, you are the KING everytime your turn comes up. You call the shot's with all of the new folks. Quiet when you get one that you can not push around. Keep on golfing and (smake) them. You stand as a 4, and a well seasoned 4. I do love happy endings. When is your last DAY?