Posted on 09/12/2022 7:11:53 AM PDT by dynachrome
In light of the possibility of a rail labor strike, the six Class I freight railroads participating in national bargaining will begin to take steps to manage and secure the shipments of hazardous and security-sensitive materials, such as chlorine used to purify drinking water and chemicals used in fertilizer, starting as early as Monday, September 12. Railroads are taking all measures necessary to handle sensitive cargo in accordance with federal regulations to ensure that no such cargo is left on an unattended or unsecured train in the event of a work stoppage due to an impasse in labor negotiations. Additionally, other freight customers may also start to experience delayed or suspended service over the course of next week, as the railroads prepare for the possibility that current labor negotiations do not result in a resolution and are required to safely and securely reduce operations.
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What would McKinsey do?
The freight rail system went from regularly scheduled trains to waiting until the maximum amount of cars are attached, to go.
Imagine waiting at a train station for your train and being told you have to stay there until the 100% full capacity is used.
You could be there for days, and you’d obviously bail (along with the others who can’t sit for days) and get an alternate transportation form, so the train will never leave again.
The Left/Deep State supposedly love unions, but they can’t set a precedent of huge increases in wages (ie. set high inflation expectations) and they certainly don’t want a strike.
Its like woke-zombie-Jimmy-Carter all over again
You got that right!
I actually hope they do walk off.
The more miserable it becomes in the cities the better.
We’ve had long trains dragging those black hazardous material cars coming through town more often than usual the last week or so. They aren’t using boxcars to separate them every few cars which usually means they are empty.
What they want:
They would give workers an immediate 14% raise, as well as additional back pay for the hours they worked since 2020. There would be more raises going forward, resulting in a 24% pay increase over the five-year course of the contract that would run from 2020 to 2024, as well as annual cash bonuses of $1,000.
I for one would be more then over zealous if this takes place. I worked for 18-miserable years for a class I. In 2008 we got to stike mode and the ‘paid for, bought out’, union leaders went full throttle to talk out of the strike. Most western lodges voted for stike; however, it was a national contract and many eastern lodges took the sorry ass deal. I have no skin in the game now, it’ll just be popcorn time if congress doesn’t order all back to work...you know, the transportation Reagan Rule.
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