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Re: Metrolink locomotive cameras lead to probes of 2 engineers
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 05-25-2010 - 10:18
>Fact: The contract with Metrolink requires Amtrak to observe the banned employee rule.
Actually, "banning" is as old as trackage rights and goes back to the 19th century. It has nothing to do with a contract other than the trackage rights one. SCRRA owns the tracks, Amtrak is merely a "tennant line", and the owner of the tracks can ban a tenant line employee. There is no grievance procedures like there are for being dismissed by your employing railroad, and there are some FELA attorneys who would like a good open and shut case to rectify this situation.
>The individual that violated the rules may have been accepted as an Amtrak hire, but even so, can not work the Metrolink territory.
Any individual banned is in this situation, whether it be by SCRRA, UP, PHL, or BNSF. He/she/it can't work over the line which banned him/her/it.
>Same will go for the second individual who is under investigation.
Only if he is found "guilty".
All you readers of this thread who think these spy cameras a good idea should have them installed in your automobiles, for the very same reasons. On your second DUI, you should lose your driver's license for a year, period, and have to go through a rehab program. You drive on the Nation's highway system, paid for in large part by the Fed Gov't, you're participating in the Nation's transportation system, no differently than a locomotive engineer. Why should you receive special treatment? It's a question of equal protection of the law.
Actually, "banning" is as old as trackage rights and goes back to the 19th century. It has nothing to do with a contract other than the trackage rights one. SCRRA owns the tracks, Amtrak is merely a "tennant line", and the owner of the tracks can ban a tenant line employee. There is no grievance procedures like there are for being dismissed by your employing railroad, and there are some FELA attorneys who would like a good open and shut case to rectify this situation.
>The individual that violated the rules may have been accepted as an Amtrak hire, but even so, can not work the Metrolink territory.
Any individual banned is in this situation, whether it be by SCRRA, UP, PHL, or BNSF. He/she/it can't work over the line which banned him/her/it.
>Same will go for the second individual who is under investigation.
Only if he is found "guilty".
All you readers of this thread who think these spy cameras a good idea should have them installed in your automobiles, for the very same reasons. On your second DUI, you should lose your driver's license for a year, period, and have to go through a rehab program. You drive on the Nation's highway system, paid for in large part by the Fed Gov't, you're participating in the Nation's transportation system, no differently than a locomotive engineer. Why should you receive special treatment? It's a question of equal protection of the law.
