The two largest unions representing about 50,000 freight train conductors and engineers could walk off the job as early as Friday. NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer has more details on why negotiations are gridlocked even after the White House intervened.
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Vote no to that "tentative" union crap! You deserve sick days!! You deserve schedules that let you see your wife and children! The media is celebrating the win to make sure the stock for the big company don't tank. Stand your ground and show them who is boss. Good luck to all the rail workers !!!! 🇺🇲
Railroad laborers are vital, and deserve better from the industry's employers !! Thank all these rail workers for their dedication ! 🚂🚃👩🏭👨🏭🧑🏭👨🔧👩🔧🧑🔧🇺🇸
RAILROAD CREW 2022 $
We're just a railroad crew
Racing down the track
Far from our families
Who will kiss us when we're back.
We're running by the river
She’s flowing muddy brown
Everywhere, someone
Hears our haunting sound.
As we glide across a silver bridge
Above the Mighty Mo.
What we'll see when we look down
We never really know.
Behind us on those rolling wheels
Are a hundred cars of coal
If we should jump the rail
Then God shall judge our soul.
When we reach the station
We’ll head for the hotel
Crawl in bed all by ourselves
And dream until the bell.
By Tom Zart
Most Published Poet On The Web
Major U.S. railroads and unions secured a tentative deal after 20 hours of intense talks brokered by the Biden administration to avert a rail shutdown that could have hit food and fuel supplies across the country and beyond.
Democrats and unions partner to create a crisis in a last ditch effort to manufacture a "win" and gain support before midterms.
The way the RR companies treat their employees is more like indentured servitude and the C-suites for all of the RR companies should have federal oversight and charges held against them. Unfortunately republicans have repeatedly gone against the unions and will once again help the RR companies treat their employees like slaves. At NO POINT has the RR companies actually gone to the table with anything other than a "you are our slaves FU" mentality and there needs to be severe consequences against the RR C-suites for this.
Where Can I apply?
Don't give them anything
Biden has no right to do this, they must fight for their rights, biden does not deserve to be president, he's just as bad as trump
PSR and short-sighted corporate greed brought this on, and the workers have had enough. I'm with them on this one, people matter more than the blasted economy.
No problem, our career corrupt senile President is on this. You know, kind of like the border.
I do not want trains operating at all with just one person responsible for the whole thing. That is just stupid.
Stock up on everything before it happens
Valio verga US 🇺🇸
Why don’t they hire more employees so the establish employees can have days off instead of having to be on call 24/7.. JUST TAKE A COUPLE OF BILLION FROM UKRAINE THEY LOVE SO MUCH and hire Americans etc etc.
If you need a blind conductor sign me up. The real companies have the best retirement out of most unions.
Quick! How is this Trump's fault?
Where's Thomas the train??
The rail companies are the real cause for any potential strike, hire more people so that your current employees can get a day off, give up some personal days so people can go to a doctor appointment.
I won’t be forced to work
I'm a truck driver that goes to csx and NS rails in cincinnati. They not accepting any incoming. I can't make money smh. But I understand as a trucker. We are the backbone of America. Do us right and pay up
Excellent. Turn the tables. Time for the workers to dish out some long overdue disrespect to the companies. Long overdue. Strike long and hard. Bring them to their knees. It will be fun to watch. Union 100%.
In hard times Americans can become and live as Biblical Christians.
Do you strike for selfishness or keep going for the good of our country if you strike then pay the price bring the us to its knees and see what everyone does think about it will you be selfish or good for the country I dont think you rail workers realize whats at stake here it and could be life changing and maybe lights out for you really think about what your about to do to every american will you pay a selfish sacrifice ?
Corporate greed wants to make America look and run like China.
Winter is coming
All eyes are on you Mr. President. Will you block the strike again like you did in July? Or will you show us that you truly are pro union and for protecting workers rights. It is time to put the Human back in Human Resources.
We’re tired of being away from our families. We’re tired of using vacation when we’re sick. Buy your groceries people! This is happening.
Congress can't do squat now, Bernie stopped that. This whole "The unions and companies need to reach an agreement" nonsense is trivial given we've been without a contract for 3 YEARS because the carriers REFUSED to negotiate with us. Any subsequent problems the nation faces because of a strike is STRICTLY the fault of the carriers and their inhumane treatment of us rail workers. We don't want to strike, we HAVE to strike!
Corporate greed is killing us all
If the job is killing you, common sense says leave.
Using trigger words such as "this is not about money, it's about our lives" is total crap, I'm pro-union.
My sources confirm mayor Pete has offered to pull a train
Lmao there's alot of others looking for jobs
Give those rail workers what they want or else.
I'm done sitting tight for the award advance since i acquire$23,000 every 12 days of my investment.
Joe Biden is ruining everything.
This is like the first episodes of season 1 of Thomas and friends when the engines decided to go on strike
Barney Miller TV series New York police go on strike. Nothing has changed.
Not a good thing to have happen, especially so close to the midterms
ZERO time off per month? ALWAYS on call for work? Even for 24% raise – totally not worth it!
“Safety is priority one”