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Posted by Nilet on Fri Aug 16 22:11:12 2019, in response to Re: Amtrak changes-LD Trains, posted by AlM on Fri Aug 16 07:47:46 2019. If you are correct, the railroad has negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that is exceedingly favorable to the employees (assuming there is no adjustment in terms of lower pay per hour because of being paid for sleeping).No. See, when a job is demanding enough that few people can or want to do it, you have to pay people more to do it. Basic supply and demand— when people can't or won't do the job, the supply of candidates shrinks and so the price goes up. Now we've gotten to the gist of it. Your whole discussion could have been replaced by "food workers on trains get paid even while off duty, whereas food workers in restaurants do not." No, that's an oversimplification. The issue is that dining cars are subject to certain physical limitations that stationary restaurants are not, with the need to employ a single staff for a grueling multi-day slog being one of them. If you need a single-sentence summary, just replace the period with a comma and use the first half of my previous sentence. |
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