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Railroaders furious after unions reveal that no tentative agreement exists, despite sabotage of strike
World Socialist web Site ^ | Jacob Crosse 16 September 2022

Posted on 09/18/2022 9:45:26 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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To: 11th_VA

Why are union members always surprised to find out that their union bosses are bosses too?


21 posted on 09/19/2022 1:36:57 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Magnum44

Did anyone think those humans who join unions actually had any intelligence?


22 posted on 09/19/2022 1:44:33 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

OSHA and the FRA have been slugging it out for decades about who has jurisdiction over railroads.


23 posted on 09/19/2022 1:46:21 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway owns Burlington Northern, one of the largest railroads in the US. Buffet is a Democrat party supporter as are the unions. Buffet benefited from Biden’s decision to shut down the Keystone pipeline as his railroad carries the freight in the region served by the pipeline.

How does Buffet benefit from the delay of a strike and whatever contract is worked out? Given his financial investment in railroads, and the Democrat party, the administration has to balance the demands of the unions against Buffet’s interests. The Democrats can’t politically afford a rail strike now. Union leadership and railroad management seem to have agreed to the fiction of a contract to buy the democrats time.

Bernie Sanders has been publicly demanding Buffet give more to the workers. Buffet has been silent and the press doesn’t seem to be pressuring him. Buffet almost always wins. What is Buffet’s price for this deal and has the administration agreed to pay it? Buffet has many business interests so the payoff may be something benefiting another Buffet company in another industry.

Now that major corporations have switched their loyalty from the GOP to the Democrats, the Democrats (other than Bernie) have to balance competing interests. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out after the election, particularly if the union rank and file goes along with the deal brokered by the government.


24 posted on 09/19/2022 2:24:52 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work o)
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To: 11th_VA

yyaaaaazzz... keep paying those dues and voting democrat!!


25 posted on 09/19/2022 2:29:26 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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When leadership says it’s not a delaying tactic, it’s a delaying tactic. November elections.


26 posted on 09/19/2022 3:53:13 AM PDT by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: 11th_VA

Hmmm, Union Thugs and DemonRat Commies lied....
Who’d a thunk it?


27 posted on 09/19/2022 4:02:20 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: KarlInOhio

Why it would take BLET “three to four weeks” to post a slightly reworded version of the Biden-backed Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) recommendations, which have already been roundly rejected by workers for failing to deal with inhuman attendance systems and increasing health care costs, was not explained.
Your post answered their question!
Heard we’ll have $2 gas by Election Day. Don’t know how they’ll work that out, but it’s all about Nov.


28 posted on 09/19/2022 5:13:35 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: pluvmantelo

Final tentative agreement.” What happened to my beloved English language?

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It’s still looking for its originaln defintion of gender.


29 posted on 09/19/2022 5:33:42 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: USCG SimTech

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!

The union leadership allowed our enemedia to report a “cease fire” of sorts, to allow the unions to stretch this whole thing out beyond the midterms.

They do not want a union strike that causes MORE INFLATION just before the midterms (that would directly hurt Democrats (and indirectly unions)), AND this also allowed them to claim Biden helped broker a “tentative” deal.

It’s all for a show! After the midterms, I almost guarantee a strike!!


30 posted on 09/19/2022 5:36:53 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: 11th_VA

They’ll drag it out right up to the election all the while proclaiming Biden saved the day.


31 posted on 09/19/2022 6:42:59 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Olog-hai

32 posted on 09/19/2022 6:54:57 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Pelham
Railroads have reduced their staffing by 1/3 while moving the same tonnage. The crews are being required to work more hours and often their days off. Quality of life issues are their primary complaint.

"And the train conductor says, take a break, Driver 8."

33 posted on 09/19/2022 6:57:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 11th_VA

Democratic politicians and the media announced that tentative agreements and and there’s no inflation everything is just fine........................................................


34 posted on 09/19/2022 8:28:47 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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