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Re: Butte Street, PE- and SP's J yard..... Only PE Engineers...
Author: BOB2
Date: 03-02-2023 - 10:51
J Wrote:
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> I was told in the late 1970's that the remaining
> PE crews received penalty pay for reporting to
> other than their original "home" terminals.
> Presumably a number of them no longer existed. I
> was led to believe such crews took home
> substantially more than others as a result.
Not more of this danged "railroad" talk on AP, again....?
PE Engineers, not trainmen, had an agreement after the formal SP/PE merger, that all PE Engineer's had to be give first option to fill a "PE" job, when a PE vacancy occured, and before calling an SP man to fill the vacant job.
Hence, a PE Engineer would be paid for the job he was supposed to work, and the one he was filling the vacancy for. Needless to say, if one of two guys laid off of a regular job, the "in-fill" of other PE engineers created still more vacancies, and still more would be getting double effective pay with overtime.
For a while, this perfectly rigged slot machine even started to "pay off" for the SP Engineers, who, for a short while, got deadhead pay to and from these "outside points", working off of the extra board, for an additional 100 miles each way (100 miles equalling one basic 8 hour no overtime shift), before that was shut down by more company favorable mediation board decision...
Many a time, like with taking the circus train out Expo from J Yard to the Colessium, or with a hot "shut down" car, from the Shops out to Gemco, or to pick up a dead train out on State Street, the slot machine would still go off, for the extra days pay outside of yard limits on a yard job.
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> I was told in the late 1970's that the remaining
> PE crews received penalty pay for reporting to
> other than their original "home" terminals.
> Presumably a number of them no longer existed. I
> was led to believe such crews took home
> substantially more than others as a result.
Not more of this danged "railroad" talk on AP, again....?
PE Engineers, not trainmen, had an agreement after the formal SP/PE merger, that all PE Engineer's had to be give first option to fill a "PE" job, when a PE vacancy occured, and before calling an SP man to fill the vacant job.
Hence, a PE Engineer would be paid for the job he was supposed to work, and the one he was filling the vacancy for. Needless to say, if one of two guys laid off of a regular job, the "in-fill" of other PE engineers created still more vacancies, and still more would be getting double effective pay with overtime.
For a while, this perfectly rigged slot machine even started to "pay off" for the SP Engineers, who, for a short while, got deadhead pay to and from these "outside points", working off of the extra board, for an additional 100 miles each way (100 miles equalling one basic 8 hour no overtime shift), before that was shut down by more company favorable mediation board decision...
Many a time, like with taking the circus train out Expo from J Yard to the Colessium, or with a hot "shut down" car, from the Shops out to Gemco, or to pick up a dead train out on State Street, the slot machine would still go off, for the extra days pay outside of yard limits on a yard job.
