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The American railroad industry is already plagued by disruptions stemming from self-inflicted staffing shortages that have crimped fertilizer shipments, caused backups at major U.S. seaports and stopped feed from reaching Foster Farms' chickens in California. read more Graphic: tmsnrt.rs...
Draconian attendance policies were implemented, forcing engineers and conductors to work day in and day out with no scheduled time off or be fired.
"Railroads “used and continue to use their economic strength to steamroll their employees, their customers and the nation, all for the sake of their bottom line, and it is clear that they have no intentions of changing,” said Pierce, who also asserted that in the third year of the national contract negotiation process, “the rail carriers have never made a contract proposal to our union that their employees, our members, would accept.”"
originally posted by: greendust
My brother in law is a railroad guy. The short staffing those bastards have been pulling over the last couple of decades is almost criminal and I am surprised that the USA rail industry hasn't ground to a halt already.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
Another case for automation being made in real time.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
Another case for automation being made in real time.
America’s freight railroads have already stopped accepting shipments of hazardous and other security-sensitive materials because of the looming threat of a strike Friday.
Over the years, Congress has intervened several times to delay strikes and sometimes even impose terms on railroad workers. President Harry Truman threatened to have the Army run the railroads in 1950 during the Korean War. In the 1960s, President Johnson imposed a longer no-strike period on rail workers. President Barack Obama delayed a threatened strike in 2011.