Aldene Plan and Job Losses

For as long as there are Railfans in NJ the pros and cons of the Aldene Plan will always be debated.

As I am old enough to remember the pre-Aldene Routes (Including trips to Jersey City to pick up my Aunt Delores who would often sleep through
what was supposed to be her transfer at Elizabethport and thus not make her Newark connection). Yet as I was a child back then I never thought of the Aldene plan much further than the fact that it meant I could no longer watch Budd Cars at Broad Street, nor take the Ferry Ride from Jersey City.

I know that a key part of this plan was to "save" the Jersey Central from threatened shut downs and the like, but what was the human toll of the Aldene Plan in tems of jobs?? Considering that the CNJ was still operating Ferry Boats, and had three key city stations (Liberty Street, Jersey City and Newark) up to April 30, 1967, not to mention stations that would no longer need the same type of staffing (E-port, 8th Street etc), and those that were left without any passenger service (west of Hampton).

How may people were thrown out of work with the Aldene Plan??


Ken

I'm tempted to say that with union rules and senority, the employees in the positions in questions were re-assigned to other stations/yards/turns (with senority, quite possibly bumping more junior employees to less desirable positions). Not too sure about the ferry staff, as they probably had more specialist skills (although there were quite a few 'last ferry' runs during the '60s (such as the ferry run from Staten Island to Brooklyn when the Verranzo Bridge was completed) - perhaps all such workers went into other areas of shipping.
So, IMO, no net jobs were probably lost, but also no new hires by CNJ to replace that lost to attrition for a while to come...