CSX, Union Told to Arbitrate Dispute Over Time-Tracking System

The railroad workers’ union has to take its dispute with CSX Transportation Inc. over the company’s implementation of a new time-tracking payroll system to arbitration, a federal court in Kentucky said.

The Allied Federation, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of International Brotherhood of Teamsters said that CSX’s new TIMEtrax system required its members to come to work seven minutes early and work seven minutes late, which altered the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.

CSX responded that the system doesn’t lengthen an employee’s work period but merely creates a seven-minute grace period on either side of the day ...