So, the government now orders privately employed railroad workers to work at rates and terms imposed upon them? No longer a free market, no longer respect for worker rights, just give big business what they want?
It’s been the case since before anyone here was even born.
It's designed to protect the interests of railroad customers, not the railroads themselves.
No longer a free market, no longer respect for worker rights, just give big business what they want?
The union leadership agreed to these terms back in September. The rank-and-file members of SOME unions (4 out of 12) didn't ratify the agreement.
I would contend that there is no such thing as a "free market" when labor unions operating under freely negotiated contracts are allowed to stop work when ANOTHER UNION goes on strike.
The Govt. assumed jurisdiction over the railroads many moons ago, under the guise of regulating “interstate commerce”. The railroads back then must not have fought against that and bent over for them.
Yep.
Corporations good, unions bad according to a lot of people, on here and elsewhere.
It was never a free market. The act that allows the legislature to impose “work to rule” for railroads came over a century ago.