BOB2 Wrote:
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> Richard Wrote:
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> > Just wondering how many SP employees are left
> at
> > UP now days, Will the former grandfather
> contracts
> > stay?
> > BOB2 do you know?
>
> Not as many as there used to be... The only thing
> I have grandfathered is my Retiree Amtrak pass.
> And the LOSSAN line to San Luis Obispo is repaired
> and operating again.
>
> I reaooy would have no idea, everybody I still
> know is retired from UP though, but I left about 8
> years before the merger. So somebody like RWF or
> others who served a "full sentence" and retired
> from UP might have a better idea.
>
> And more recent retiree's like that might have an
> idea of how much of the old union agreements have
> been "grandfathered" with former SP retiree's on
> UP. I didn't see anyone of them getting anything
> like the old PE engineers got for merging with
> SP.
>
> I suppose it depends on how many folks SP hired in
> the 80's and 90's, since most folks from before
> about 1985 or so are probably almost all gone.
>
> Most of the former SP guys I know of by name
> and/or reputation, from things like the SPHS&TS
> roster are retired now, and/or went to work for
> other carriers, or to other careers.

Bob, did you ever work with Boffa?