Word: notting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IN a shack in the railroad yards at Antigo, Wis. last week sat four railroadmen: a fireman, a conductor, a brakeman and a flagman. All together, they collect pay totaling $110 a day, not counting fringe benefits. Their job: doing nothing. Earlier this year, the Chicago & North Western Railroad decided...
Such practices make railroads the most egregiously featherbedded industry in the U.S. Not all examples are so flagrant, but the railroads declare that featherbedding costs them $500 million a year. Now, in the middle of negotiating new contracts, the roads have served notice that they intend to replace the feathers...
RAILROAD operators say they have had enough. "The necessity of employing firemen on freight and yard diesels costs the New Haven over $3,500,000 a year," says George Alpert, president of the New Haven Railroad. "This is absolutely unessential." Says E. F. Bidez, vice president of the Central of...
To these complaints, the unions' reply is that many so-called featherbedding practices are actually required for safety reasons by many states, that cutting down crews would add to railway accidents. (Actually, states with such rules have no better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come...
THE real argument against featherbedding-from any point of view-is that the practice is killing off business just when struggling U.S. roads need every dollar they can get. Booms Daniel Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The central issue is simply whether this industry or any industry...