If so many LIRR employees are getting injured on the job and to such a degree that they have to retire on disability, where is OSHA? I ride MetroNorth daily (another arm of the MTA) and these rail employees are not straining themselves. It would be interesting to see what kinds of injuries they are reporting.
…think again. In this industry everything on the outside that you know is different on the inside. It’s a different culture, work ethic, retirement system. We DO NOT participate in social security.
Actually, the railroad retirement system predates social security and is funded by heavy payroll taxes on my wages and contributions by the rail operating companies, just like social security, but with one striking difference: the railroad retirement system, if we can believe what the unions tell us, is entirely solvent and will be for some time to come.
The problem is that, due to the lifestyle differences in this industry, many, many retirees are not able to draw the retirement they paid into for thirty, forty, or fifty years. (For those who don’t know, the rail industry has one of the most senior group of employees of almost any surviving heavy industry today.) Full retirement at sixty years of age is only possible after thirty years of service. Late starters like me have to wait until later for a lesser amount in the monthly check.
Now, to the question: it does seem that an inordinate number of folks sustaining disabling injuries at only one rail employer is highly curious. But it is not a mnatter for public concern Why is this in the news, anyway? There is no public money at stake here.
The reason this is in the news is because this is a union/management dispute and the company (a railroad that doesn’t think it IS a railroad) wants to curry public favor. In truth, this company is probably as poorly managed as the one for which I work and now the fruits of that mismanagement are ripe.
I think there are “dirty” people on both sides and unscrupulous recipients abound. There are always those who will find the “easy money”.
Poor you. Not able to retire at 60. So you all have to scam. Oh, no, wait! Maybe there’s another choice. You could have worked somewhere else. Maybe truly heavy industry, where you have to lift and carry and grunt and hurt your back and get repetitive motion injury. But then you probably STILL wouldn’t be able to retire at 60, like a lot of people can’t, no matter what the “lifestyle.”
You can’t even admit that people are NOT “sustaining (SUSTAINING) disabling injuries” and that this is not merely “curious” but dishonest. You imply that since the system you pay into is solvent you can rip it off.
You bet it’s a different work ethic at the LIRR, and that’s NEWSWORTHY.
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What a scam. They are only now just figuring this out???
If so many LIRR employees are getting injured on the job and to such a degree that they have to retire on disability, where is OSHA? I ride MetroNorth daily (another arm of the MTA) and these rail employees are not straining themselves. It would be interesting to see what kinds of injuries they are reporting.
As a part of the rail road system, I do not think LIRR is subject to OSHA.
…think again. In this industry everything on the outside that you know is different on the inside. It’s a different culture, work ethic, retirement system. We DO NOT participate in social security.
Actually, the railroad retirement system predates social security and is funded by heavy payroll taxes on my wages and contributions by the rail operating companies, just like social security, but with one striking difference: the railroad retirement system, if we can believe what the unions tell us, is entirely solvent and will be for some time to come.
The problem is that, due to the lifestyle differences in this industry, many, many retirees are not able to draw the retirement they paid into for thirty, forty, or fifty years. (For those who don’t know, the rail industry has one of the most senior group of employees of almost any surviving heavy industry today.) Full retirement at sixty years of age is only possible after thirty years of service. Late starters like me have to wait until later for a lesser amount in the monthly check.
Now, to the question: it does seem that an inordinate number of folks sustaining disabling injuries at only one rail employer is highly curious. But it is not a mnatter for public concern Why is this in the news, anyway? There is no public money at stake here.
The reason this is in the news is because this is a union/management dispute and the company (a railroad that doesn’t think it IS a railroad) wants to curry public favor. In truth, this company is probably as poorly managed as the one for which I work and now the fruits of that mismanagement are ripe.
I think there are “dirty” people on both sides and unscrupulous recipients abound. There are always those who will find the “easy money”.
Again, why is this newsworthy?
Poor you. Not able to retire at 60. So you all have to scam. Oh, no, wait! Maybe there’s another choice. You could have worked somewhere else. Maybe truly heavy industry, where you have to lift and carry and grunt and hurt your back and get repetitive motion injury. But then you probably STILL wouldn’t be able to retire at 60, like a lot of people can’t, no matter what the “lifestyle.”
You can’t even admit that people are NOT “sustaining (SUSTAINING) disabling injuries” and that this is not merely “curious” but dishonest. You imply that since the system you pay into is solvent you can rip it off.
You bet it’s a different work ethic at the LIRR, and that’s NEWSWORTHY.