Norfolk Southern Forced To Pay Two Whistleblowers $932,000

I understand GATX , major ralicar leasing giant , had some whistleblowing problems which, included age-discriminations , mental abuse and wrongful terminations , in some cases .... Sweeping under the carpet was the chosen resolution by GATX and CEO Brian Kenney' team in Chicago ... To stand up .... It was a risk .... but, one I would take again ... and , again ..... I believe Albert Einstein said .... " The world is a dangerous place to live in ... not because of the people who do evil but, for the people who sit by and let it happen ... "

firing whistleblowers is ILLEGAL. N.S. got EXACTLY what they deserved.

How good can an article be when the photo accompanying the article is of a locomotive from another railroad? How difficult would it have been for the AP to get a stock photo of a Norfolk Southern locomotive? The AP couldn't find its ass with both hands.

Here's the perfect example of why people often don't call police. Folks, I know everyone in the country condemns Joe Paterno for not calling the police instead of just telling his superiors about what he heard about the boys but you'd be shocked to know just HOW many places in this so-called great country of ours WOULD have fired someone over doing just that. I had a boss for 15 years that was psychotic about everyone knowing she was in charge. You never saw such a "boot licker" in your life for *******-up to those over her. Had someone telehponed the police instead of going through her the woman would have been WILD! She treats even to this day her employees like little school children even though they are very intelligent people, many with college degrees. This nut case is still there at the job even though I had to finally get out. She was a major contribution to stress ruining my health. My own mother says the same thing about her job. She's in nursing at a nursing home and she has incidents every month which should be reported. But she saw the hard way that often it can blow up in your face. She encouraged a nurse to report a case of abuse. The abuser was kept, given a better job (who by the way was black) and the girl who reported it (white by the way) was fired. Administration was TERRIFIED of a lawsuit. I guarantee you there are thousands of places of employment still out there here in the 21st century where someone reporting a problem is punished, not rewarded. No, there are MANY places where you don't call the police in on your own. Let's live in reality people. If you have a job where you feel you could report things to the police making the business look bad and your bosses would support you and not fire you, count yourself VERY lucky because it doesn't happen everywhere. I get sickened every time Penn State blames Coach Paterno for everything. After all, HE never touched a child and yet because he's in the grave, it's easy to make him the scapegoat because he can't fight back. In my opinion they murdered Paterno, drove him to his grave and you the public helped them. Personally, I think the entire administration should be gone at this school instead of Joe Paterno. The decisions they're making now are ludricious. They have even stopped playing a song because it has the words touching and feeling in it. Things like this are saying Penn State fans have no intelligence and are unable to seperate the two issues. I'm glad Norfolk and Southern have to pay these two but if they're back at work they're make their lives hell at their jobs. Best thing is they move on.

A very poor, incomplete article.

More quality AOL / Huff Post journalism. The article is about the Norfolk Southern Railway so they show a picture of a Union Pacific locomotive. I guess the effort needed of spending 3 minutes downloading a photo of a NS locomotive exceeds the capabilities of the news staff.

Oh, well...when I saw the headline "forced to pay whistleblowers" I thought it meant the engineers going throught crossings, and then I thought, Wow, I would do that for free if I got to run the locomotive!
umm, never mind...

I'm not surprised. NS has been accused of this behavior for years, along with being # 1 in safety in the RR industry of the USA.

What a poorly written article. What was the injury and how did it happen? Was it self inflicted? Was itjust plain clumsey? Was it not real? (happened at home, but reported at work) Was it something that they could have avoided or was it something that NS processes caused? There are no answers or facts in the article except for that something happened somewhere to something, even though the case has been to trial.