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- ClassyDave ( @ClassyDave@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
What’s crazy to me is that they aren’t even asking for that many!
And the reason is exactly what you’d expect, cost cutting.
“Over the past six years, America’s major freight carriers have shed 30 percent of their employees.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/rail-strike-why-the-railroads-wont-give-in-on-paid-leave-psr-precision-scheduled-railroading.html - Uriel-238 ( @Uriel238@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English9•1 year ago
If we thought about this enough, we’d be two steps from nationalizing the railways.
But then think about how we treated our essential workers in 2020.
- kool_newt ( @kool_newt@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
The wealthiest 1% could disappear tomorrow and the world would keep going, probably improve drastically. But if all the rail workers disappeared we’d be fucked.
- skellener ( @skellener@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
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