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On 9/10/2020 at 9:03 AM, Rj617 said:

Was the wait worth it ? With the way things are , sometimes other opportunities may present themselves or different career paths. Im sure that can happen with many of us, from your perspective, is the wait worth it?

depends, i previously worked for HRA making 40k a year setting an office, 1st year i went up 55k, now im over 80k base. financially its worth it... but if i could make same money doing what i did in HRA i would go back.

On 9/1/2020 at 11:45 AM, Stephen K said:

Hi! I have a few questions in regards to the track worker position. How does the pay periods work, do they pay you weekly or bi-weekly? And how is the work schedule, is it 5 days a week or less days and more hours to make up the 40 hour work week?

biweekly. 6am-2pm, 7a-3pm, 3pm-11pm, 10pm-6am, 11pm-7am, 12mid- 8 am.. Sun, Mon... nights means ur off from saturday morning to monday night, Fri Sat.....nights means ur off thurs morning to satuday night... sat/sun for day crew, and other days off as well, On nights tracks calender day is actually the date after.. so if u come in  on monday july 3 at 10pm..., ur acutally day of duty is tues july 4... 40 HR WEEK, 8hrs and day.

there will be layoffs or furloughs and it will likely affect track/MOW if and only if they cut an entire line of service and there are no trains moving on the given  tracks.  If that happens they will furlough or layoff trackworkers...so thats the sign. As far as warning, MOW is horrible about givening notice about anything... there are plentity of times where i had qualification appointments given to me with one day notice. They dont care and they are incompetant about it. 

On 8/17/2020 at 12:21 AM, 9thGenAccord said:

Has anyone heard anything new. I know there are other lists moving just wondering when will they start moving on this list. Thank you stay safe.

On 8/16/2020 at 11:48 PM, PieGuy said:

Can someone  speak to some of the promotions within the track worker field and the estimated salary and brief description?

Track Worker  can go to MS 1 via provisional or promotional exam. MS 1s top at around 94k/year(after 5.5 years). MS II Starts at 96K. Supt starts above 100K

MS1 MS2 are hourly employees and are entitled to overtime. They also recieve healthcare for life after 10yeas. they also have more vacation and time off options.  MS1 are generally in the field and do physical labor and responsible for safety. MS2s are more management  and they do no physical labor except rare occaisions. They usaully serve to check to see if jobs are completed or jobs are needed in given area in the system.  

Track is organized in divided  in segments and zones. Each segement has General Supt and each Zone has a Supt. For example T6 "A zone" Each Zone has several ganges, ms1s and ms2. Track is also divided by days and nights for example capital days and capital nights. CD AND CN, two different adminitrations and ways of doing things.

TRACK CAN GO TO RTO/ POWER DISTRIBUTION/SIGNAL VIA EXAM. Power Distribtuion works closely with track and often has provisional positions to recruit track. Their exam is know for being difficult. I beleive PD has the only direct promitional exam. Signal/RTO are open competitve as other twu titles.

Promotional exams award points based up years of service up 10-15 pts. 

• MS1 maintenance
• MS1 cleaning
• MS1 control
• MS1 office worker
• MS1 basically can have any random job assignment in track 

http://www.sssaunion.org//sites/default/files/files/Contract Mailing Full Package.pdf

Track Worker Top is 36. they  go to either Cleaning, Mainteance/Rails or Capital...Nights or Days. night diif is about $1.24

TrackWorker Specialist/Full Rate is $37. night diif is about $1.53. Dual Rate ----> Full rate generally after one year based upon pick or bid regardless if u actually performed the work.

http://www.twulocal100.org/contracts-taoamta-bus

• Welder Burner - often works with gang(more physical labor)
• Track Inspector - rarely works with gang(less labour)
• Track Inspector ERT/CAT/TRACK GEOMETRY CAR  - rarely works with gang(less labour)
• Truck Driver - AT LEAST CDL B -  - rarely works with gang(less labour) usually as punishiment or 
• Crane Operator - AT LEAST CDL B - never works with gang 
• Vaccum Operator(Cleaning) -  works with cleaning gang
• Special Operator(Capital) - occasionally works with gang
• Flagging Specialist
• Invetory etc, there other less familir spec spots 

 to me the best spots are ,ERT , driver and crane operator because of less physical labour.