[PRCo] Re: GMs

[Herb Brannon]

Strikes were commonplace in the 1950s all across the United States, in all industries, and with all unions. It was not a Pittsburgh Railways Company only thing. It was a nationwide rejection, by the working class, of the flawed labor/management relations of that era. Too bad we are facing that same flawed relationship now. So far, though, the necessary spark needed to set the working class into motion against those who keep them in that state of mind has not been struck. I have a feeling that day is coming soon.
   
   
  HrB..............the guy who "was there too" 
Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
  You are reading something in that isn't there, Herb.

I didn't say I didn't like union employees. But there was an 
animosity between PRC's union people and management or they would 
have not had some of the most vitriolic strikes in the industry in 
the 1950s. They also had the second or third highest wages in the 
industry in the 1950s and still they would stay on strike for five or 
six weeks to avoid loosing that position.

I also have to recognize that even though I was in management, I got 
what I had because the state unions pushed up the salaries of 
management too. So don't attempt to back me into any corners.

On May 9, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> Ah, that's the problem..............you do not like union 
> employees. The only good employees were at 121 Seventh St and in 
> the Engineering Office at Homewood Shops?? I beg to differ with you.
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> Again, this is Herb............the guy who "was there too".
> Fred Schneider wrote:
> There may have been an animosity between the unions and 
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> Pittsburgh Railways but there was an esprit de corps among the
> management and staff. I never heard any complaints from the people
> at 121 Seventh Street or in the engineering office at Homewood or at
> Sandusky Street. They were good people. I never heard any of them
> bitching about Palmer.
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> Herb Brannon
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Herb Brannon
   
  Greetings From America's North Coast