Hello from Galt's Gulch Beach
Posted on 06/16/2022 3:13:16 AM PDT by markomalley
The National Mediation Board (NMB) on June 14 set in motion a ticking time bomb toward an economy-jolting national railroad shutdown within 90 days, its two Democratic members agreeing with rail labor—and over the remonstrance of carriers and the NMB’s lone Republican—that a voluntary agreement to amend unionized rail worker wages, benefits and work rules is not within reach.
Negotiations, dating to January 2020, involve 12 rail craft unions (bargaining in two coalitions collectively representing some 115,000 rail workers), most Class I freight railroads and many smaller ones. Management is represented by the National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC). CSX is negotiating separately with two unions, representing train and engine workers, over wages and work rules (not benefits). Canadian Pacific negotiates separately with all its U.S. unions.
Although negotiations toward amending existing contracts began in January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed face-to-face collective bargaining, with early sessions conducted electronically. As contracts negotiated under provisions of the Railway Labor Act (RLA) never expire—amendments are retroactive to the start of negotiations—there is no bright line date to reach voluntary settlements.
(Excerpt) Read more at railwayage.com ...
I'm sure just a coincidence.
Directive 10-289 lol
Frggin’ unbelievable.
Our government and institutions are adversarial to our way of life.
They need to be flushed
Well that goes right along with the impending dock worker strike on the west coast.
Warning: Link is from a socialist site, but the news is not being reported anywhere.
Business groups demand Biden administration intervene to prevent any work stoppage on West Coast ports
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/10/dock-j10.html
Terrified at the prospect of a dockworkers strike shutting down large sections of US supply chains, a group of large business associations led by the US Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter on June 8 to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, demanding the White House “engage in the negotiations” in order to ensure “backups, delays, and inflationary costs are avoided.”
The letter warns that, “...even a relatively brief port slowdown or shutdown would compound current supply chain challenges and cause long-lasting damage to consumer confidence and American businesses.”
Signatories of the letter included the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which represents brands such as Target, Lowe’s, Best Buy and Walgreens, the American Apparel Footwear Association and the Travel Goods Association.
Our supply chain issues ain't nothin' yet!
Just wait until the railroads shut down. Atlas is Shrugging indeed.
Speaking of coinkydinks, from the UK...
The Chamber of Commerce supported the campaign of the fraudulent huckster (and under one Thomas Donohue did everything they could to screw Trump and his voters) so maybe they expect something in return.
Read the details of the story. It’s quite fascinating. The unions and the partisan hacks at the NMB did this to push it off onto Congress and force it to deal with it during the election season.
Teddy Roosevelt wouldn’t permit this and we have Teddy’s opposite at the helm of the ship of state.
Unions have a long history of taking advantage of crises. Look through old newspaper articles of their activity during World War II. Awful people.
Hello from Galt's Gulch Beach
“The fireman screams and the engine just gleams.”
Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
Ok, I’m jealous! :-)
Crazy Eddie rides again ...
Good move. Between the rails and truck strikes, the diesel glut should explode.
But, wait. What about the supply chain and shortages? Oh. That’s just collateral damage and the price we have to pay for Brandon’s fix for the economy! Anyway, this is all Putin’s fault.
Way to go Brandon!
Time is running out - they have to totally crush the economy and embrace the ensuing chaos well before the November elections.
So they can control the outcome. Then the end begins in earnest.
Teddy Roosevelt would most likely have intervened on the side of the unions.
Is BNSF still transporting oil to the refineries?
That’s exactly what I was thinking when I was reading this story.
Appears that woman was spot on. Just didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime.
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