February 16, 2016 - In the face of a number of years of consistently improving operating ratios on the Northeast Corridor where over 90% of Amtrak Maintenance of Way employees and Signalmen are employed, and even though the compensation and benefits for Amtrak Signalmen and Maintenance of way employees are below those of their brothers and sisters on the commuter railroads, Amtrak has offered flat wages, sought dramatic health benefits concessions that would result in a plan substantially inferior to industry standards and proposed previously rejected changes to work rules to remedy alleged problems not caused by the existing work rules.

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