By Tom Lisi, Herald & Review; August 15, 2018
DECATUR — With a starting wage of more than $20 an hour, including the kind of robust health insurance and retirement benefits virtually unheard of in 2018, Norfolk Southern Railway is still struggling to fill 30 conductor positions in its Decatur terminal.
“I don’t want to say that our (labor) market here is tapped out, but when you’re struggling to hire people for a good job like it is, it kind of feels that way some days,” said John Howley, terminal operations manager for the Norfolk, Virginia-based railroad company.
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