Word: worke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 to eliminate one of the two switching locomotives at Antigo because there was not enough work to keep them busy. But the road may not remove the idled crew without union permission, and permission had not been given...
...such rules have no better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come to regard featherbedding as a sort of fringe benefit, making up for the fact that railroad men have to sit by the phone for long hours without pay while waiting for a call to work, get no premium pay for nights, Sundays or holiday work, are not paid for away-from-home terminal expenses. Furthermore, despite all the complaints about featherbedding, 800 to 1,000 railroad workers, on an average, lose their jobs every week because of more automation and better equipment. But most...
...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 so beset by rising competition can long survive under work rules that exact millions in pay for work not done or needed...
...answer to the problem lies not in charges or recriminations, but in a joint effort on both sides to discover how featherbedding practices can be eliminated without undue hardship. The industry favors a plan adopted by Canadian railroads, which has helped cut down featherbedding by not replacing firemen working on freights or in the yards who have died or retired. Privately, many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions. Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North...
...barony's dissolution began when the New Englanders imported Chinese and Japanese to work as field hands. Neither group stayed in the fields. The industrious Chinese moved into real estate, the Japanese into politics. After World War II, the pineapple workers won their fight for a union, and the Democratic Party, with a membership of Orientals and newcomer Caucasians, won a strong position in island government...