[PRCo] Re: How we feel about Numero Uno

[John Swindler]

Why should the "old farts" trust management?  
> CC: fwschneider at comcast.net> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: How we feel about Numero Uno> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:45:58 -0500> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > Guess what ... 1932 the Railways Company furloughed 250 trainmen and > the older farts still would not take shorter work weeks.> > > On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:> > > Electric Railway Journal, volume 74, Number 9, August 1930:> > "Pittsburgh Railways trainmen defeated a proposal that they work on a> > 6-day instead of a 7-day schedule to save jobs of 300 now or soon to> > be placed on the extra list."> >> > Two things strike me as being interesting. First off, when you have> > 3000 or so trainmen, it isn't hard to find enough high seniority men> > who don't care about youngsters. Second, they worked long days and> > long weeks to earn a living but it was still heaven compared to being> > on the wrong end of a coal scoop on a steam locomotive or suffering> > in a steel mill.> >> >> > 
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