Letter: The potential national railroad strike was temporarily averted while a tentative agreement was reviewed and voted on, but the proposed agreements have been rejected by a majority of the railroad workers. This should be of concern to everyone.
A freight train yard near the Port of Los Angeles, Sept. 15, 2022. To defuse a labor dispute that brought the nation to the brink of a potentially catastrophic railroad strike, negotiators had to resolve a key issue: schedules that workers say were punishing, upending their personal lives and driving colleagues from the industry.potential national railroad strike
Railroad workers have been working without a contract for more than three years. Other industries would have gone on strike, or been locked out by the company, the minute the contract expired, but railroads are by law not allowed to seek “self-help” immediately because of their importance to our country’s economy.
Ask any male railroad employee if he was present at the birth of all his children? Most will say no. This also applies to school graduations, plays or sports their children are in, also birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas mornings, you name the family event, railroad workers miss most of them. All this time railroads have enjoyed record profits every quarter. It is not the workers that are the problem, it is the greedy railroads. Railroad workers make sacrifices daily. They were there on the job all through the pandemic moving the nation’s goods across the country.
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