Lots of the rank and file are already blaming all this on Republican intransigence going back before Amtrak Joe. They are in the drivers' seat this time, and the railroads' roughshod "point systems" and such have the lads and lasses all righteously angry. Wall Street is being blamed, and the RR boards eager to burn everything down to make returns on vulture capitalists are getting bad optics.
Call it "Hunter Harrison's Ghost" or whatever, but chickens are roosting, and Amtrak Joe will benefit somehow. He can treat an individual Amtrak employee like dog crap, but the unions love him. Look for nationalization... they have plans in place and they never let a crisis go to waste... especially a crisis that has been manufactured.
Should be "returns FOR vulture capitalists."