Rail Unions Warn of Unsafe Working Conditions in Labor Negotiations; Train Derailments Follow (East Palestine, Houston, Etc)
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I don't see why it's so hard to give these guys reasonable benefits. Am I missing something important?
The negotiations are between a large number of unions and a variety of employers.
Everyone Simply isn't on the same page
mastermind
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By everyone, you mean the union leaders vs. the union members vs. the rail companies?
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mastermind
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The companies don't want to give it to them. That's it. They hired less staff to pay people less and work them more hours.
Just the entire thing. The majority of unions signed off, but it's an all or nothing situation.
Clearly different unions have different priorities of pay raises and an extra day vs sick time.
In the end it won't matter if the two largest unions holding out can't get a consensus regarding what's most important before congress pushes it through.
mastermind
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I think the biggest rail unions rejected the contract, and the eight others that agreed were not blowouts.
From my understanding, the biggest issue was time off and this deal didn't address that.
They seemed to be all close. Congress is likely just going to approve the tentative agreement since 8 of the 12 voted to pass.
It’s really a shame though because they should be guaranteeing these folks sick days instead of just throwing a little extra money at them.
From what I’ve read each union has a varied policy on sick days so that difference between 4 and 7 may have swayed some and not others.
I’d have to see, but considering what most white collar workers see regarding PTO/sick days the fact that we’re even here is just an indictment on American culture.
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Got to figure out a way to turn this into a general strike and bring big business to its fukking knees! 
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This, but unironically. If we've allowed a private company to have the ability to cripple the American economy, and they're choosing to try and abuse that privilege in the name of greed and class warfare, we should take that privilege from them.Nationalize them
If the private sector can't be relied upon to run their business in an honest way that doesn't put the countries logistic infrastructure at risk of failure, then the state should take over. It seems obvious to me.
Umm, profit? Isn't it obvious?
Capitalist profit motive is the first and last explanation you need for most of this fukk shyt.
mastermind
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And we may be able to finally get high speed rail in this country if that did happen.
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