Industries adjust work-force size to technological change and economic changes, but the number of brakemen on railroad crews is inflexibly fixed by labor agreements. In the 1959 crew consist dispute the railroads claimed authority over crew size, the issue remaining unresolved in 1977 despite years of negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and government factfinding. Government-imposed arbitration authorized crew reductions in 1964-5 but granted the current employees job protection, whereupon some railroads offered severance pay. Railroad wages are negotiated industry-wide, but in 1966 a court ruled that crew agreements be on individual railroads, enabling union bargaining power to gain its goal of two brakemen per crew. This dissertation emphasizes a case study of the Illinois Central Railroad, the union's most aggressive opponent.


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    Title :

    Railroad Manpower Adjustments to Technological Change Through Collective Bargaining: Crew Consist on the Illinois Central Railroad


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1977


    Size :

    718 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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