OK, they needed rail crews. Did they fire crew for not being vaxxinated.
All part of the plan.
No, the unions bucked the mandate hard and the railroads pushed their compliance date back far enough for the Supreme Court to uphold the lower courts blocking of Biden’s executive order and then dropped them as a result.
I think there has been a shortage similar to the long standing trucker shortage, boomers are continuing to retire and millennials and zoomers are not as interested in these jobs or don’t know or realize they exist as a result of public school indoctrination in favor of college.
If your top logistics guys all retire, you’re left with dopes addicted to their phones and shit just doesn’t get done.