This has become absurd…. Despite working without a contract for years . Being a essential employee pre pandemic and having to deal with Precision Railroading. Class 1’s receiving Covid relief yet didn’t sharing a dime of that money . Corporate greed , share holders and hedge funds have been destroying America for years . Now people are starting to notice . They have broken contract agreements, are being taken to court over labor issues . Cut roughly 4K trainman just in transportation. Now are forcing engineers to fill those vacancies.
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Can’t wait for Dec 8th … All Union brothers/ sisters who ridicule some for a personal choice . I am vaccinated. You thought the NS broke labor agreements before . Wait ! They can’t hire , people are leaving the industry for other employment and don’t forget PSR . Unions well you decide . You will be an engineer one day , conductor the next and on Friday which is you’re Tuesday cleaning toilets before you dead head home . Yet the OR will still be below 60% thanks to all the folks hard work . Maybe you will get a contract well below the COLA . Signing bonus to cover the cost of rising health care . Which when I started cost …In the words of Uncle Joe ..Zero
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Yes we are doing so much better with a 50 year politician in office. Closed boarders, clean exit from Afghanistan, no container ships waiting to unload, oil prices low, no inflation, no more COVID. Yep, best it’s ever been!
They have never gave a sp-t about us but yet have never been so emboldened. I speak for T&E not the numerous RR crafts they have furloughed / essential fired . Hard working folks . These Congress folks don’t have a clue as to what this countries infrastructure is going through…