[niteowl77]

The very sick Rock Island railroad got hammered by a Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks strike in the Fall of 1979, and the United Transportation Union walked out in support; Jimmy Carter ordered everyone back to work for 60 days to work things out, but Fred Kroll - then president of the BRAC - decided to play tough guy. Unfortunately, some creditors wanted their slice of the pie at the same time, and the strike gave them an opening. By the following March, The Rock was floating belly-up in the bowl.

If you lived in Iowa, the disappearance of the CRI&P was something that just couldn't happen- but there it was (or rather, wasn't). Other roads gleefully took the healthier parts, the rest went begging, and almost a century-and-a-quarter of railroading (such as it was) basically vanished... along with the jobs. I believe Fred Kroll kept his job, though.

[Moby Grape]

Your story of the RI Railroad is so like hundreds of "union" stories in this country...You would think that "if" the liberal media REALLY cared about working people, they would report what DAMAGE has been done to American jobs by them....Anywhere you look, unions have killed American industries....and now the NEA is killing education.