•  pingveno   ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) OP
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    tl;dr: A railway maintenance person was told to skip maintenance that would have found the faulty component. Unions have been warning about this for years.

    This was the type of behavior that workers were complaining about while they were having a new contract forced down their gullet by greedy railway companies and the federal government. Workers knew that there was a culture of prioritizing stockholder gains over important security measures. Because this was done in the name of stockholder value, the first group to be hung out to dry financially should ideally be stockholders.