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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cold Smoke" data-source="post: 3819309" data-attributes="member: 44374">I can tell you I am absolutely no fan of unions. They are a toxic blight on junction of labor and the economy, but the relationship between labor and management in the company I’m familiar with is the most hostile I have ever witnessed from the management side. The guys getting it done in the ballast are by and large proud blue collar hands who are trained and held current on qualifications like nobody’s business. Pride in performance is highly evident. I’m not going to shoot you through the daisies and tell you there isn’t dead weight. That’s what the unions tend to preserve. The hours and physical demands you would have to live to understand. There’s a good reason why there’s not a huge pool of retirees getting long term pensions. They die pretty quickly after retirement. They’ve been trying for twenty plus years to get rid of company hands and replace them with contractors. Part of the hold up is the federal standards in place to operate and the talent ain’t that deep in the not eligible for employment with the company pool. During the golden age of American industry they maintained to the highest level for maximum operating efficiency. Now they stay just above the minimum for economy. Just a symptom of much larger problems that plague the fabric of the country.</blockquote>