Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a yardman was mashed between cars. So often did brakemen fall from atop moving cars that one in three would be injured or killed in the course of a year. Understandably, insurance companies were reluctant to insure railroaders. In the railroad workers' need for insurance the first rail unions had their beginnings, as fraternal insurance societies. The unions still show traces of their small-scale, fraternal antecedents. There are 21 major rail unions today, and some of them still like to think of themselves as "brotherhoods" and "orders" rather than ordinary labor unions...
Since then, railroad labor has remained fragmented (see box), despite occasional merger talks between various rail unions in recent years. The older railroad unions long steered clear of the main line of U.S. unionism. Of the five "operating" rail unions, only three have joined the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and two of those did not enter the federation until recent years...
Four Is More than Ten. At the core of the dispute are the "work rules" that the operating rail unions got from management in the course of three generations of strikes, strike threats and negotiations. Technology has outmoded many of the rules. Firemen used to shovel coal on steam locomotives; on today's diesels a fireman still rides along in the cab, doing no necessary work. The pay scale of many railroad workers is based on the quaint rule that a man gets a full day's pay for 100 miles of travel, with the result that...
...many other countries. Hearing about the work of the Peace Corpsmen, one country after another has asked to be included in the program. Where Peace Corpsmen have already been sent, requests have come in for more. Even Nkrumah's Ghana, where government-run, Communist-lining newspapers still rail at the Peace Corpsmen as "agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency," the government itself has urgently requested that the 113-man Peace Corps contingent be doubled. In Nigeria, where poor Margery Michelmore caused all that commotion, the present group of 297 teachers is being increased, at Nigerian request, to more...
...Saunders appointment, which helped to lift the Pennsy's stock last week, came at a time when almost all railmen, dour for so long, are smiling for a change. Rail shares on the Dow-Jones average have risen more than 50% since last October. They briefly touched a seven-year peak last week. Because of the economy's general strength, the Association of American Railroads predicts that carloadings in this year's third quarter will rise 3% over the same period a year ago. The backlog of orders for new freight cars has jumped from...