Long Island Railroad [folder 1 of 12]

Chiefly files of cases in the railroad industry, brought before Boards on which Seidenberg served from 1960-1974. The major unions represented in these files are United Transportation Union; Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks; Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The major railroads represented are Penn Central Transportation Company; Southern Pacific Company; Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company; Long Island Railroad Company; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; and Southern Buffalo Railway Company. Also, Union Pacific Railway Company; Central Georgia Railroad Company; Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company; Western Maryland Railway Company; St. Louis South Western Railway Lines; and Monongahela Railway Company.

The major issues involved include violation of work assignment rules, dismissal, seniority, discipline, time claims, mileage claims, and payment claims, holiday pay, runaround, wage rates, deadheading, overtime, suspension, compensation, reinstatement, and others. Additionally, there are numerous cases arbitrated by Seidenberg involving the following unions: National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees; International Brotherhood of Teamsters; United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; Office and Professional Employees International Union; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America; United Brotherhood of Carpenters District Council; United Steelworkers of America; and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.