>Railroad Workers United, a grassroots organization representing rank-and-file railroaders, found that 96 percent of the nearly 3,200 rail workers surveyed are prepared to strike once they are legally allowed to on or after Sept. 16.
>The vast majority of workers surveyed said they would reject a recent labor agreement proposed by the White House-appointed Presidential Emergency Board.
Remember that railroad moves one-third of all U.S. exports and roughly 40% of long distance freight volume.
One of my friends is a train engineer. He's always ranting angrily about how the railroad workers are getting fucked by the shipping companies and that they are about to strike... but he's been saying this kind of thing for at least 2 years and they havent striked yet. maybe this time will be the real deal.
Nathan Phillips
I think they were prohibited from striking. However Congress can intervene:
>While workers can legally go on strike starting Sept. 16 if they don't choose to adopt the board's recommendations, Congress can intervene if workers decide to strike Sept. 16. >"If history repeats itself, the last time we had a stoppage was in the early 1990s," he says. "And I believe it lasted one day, maybe two days, before Congress passed a bill prohibiting a lockout or strike. Essentially, the two sides had to then go back to work on reaching agreement. So, Congress has a lot of power here. We would like to think they're going to exercise it, and we're certainly going to encourage them to exercise it because stopping the railroads would be very, very bad for the agricultural economy."
Jaxon Nelson
They can't force them to go back to work, and it takes like 6 months to train new engineers. not sure what congress will be able to do, but hopefully they side with the workers. from what I hear, they are really getting unfairly fucked in the ass
Mason Gutierrez
How is it safe to only have one guy on the train?
Andrew Hughes
>they can't force them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain It's kinda like income tax: sure, they can't imprison all of us but we all cuck out every April 15 because no one wants to be the first one they make an example out of.
Colton Barnes
>Battle_of_Blair_Mountain that was like 100 years ago lol
Jack Anderson
God I hope they end up shooting them. Fuck these union faggots.
Xavier Stewart
are you a libertarian?
Christopher Sanchez
No, I just hate socialists and what they've done to this country. Put the power back into the hands of the productive classes and tell the "working" class to eat lead if they don't like it. This country was at its peak when labor laws didn't exist.
Ethan Jackson
They will strike with the blessing of the government and everyone else. The media will stick up for the strikers too. All this further ruins the economy of the US.
who said anything about unions being exclusive to socialists? The reason if I asked if you were a libertarian is because most people on Any Forums who claim to be libertarian don't even realize that the freedom for workers to voluntarily form and join unions is part of the libertarian philosophy.
Jacob Peterson
Unionism is socialism kike.
Jackson Green
If unions could actually work like they're supposed to such as protecting against foreign scabs via migrants instead of being slaves to the democrats, they'd be a lot better. But as usual Jews and freemasons literally have them vote against their interests.
Adam Murphy
In the process of getting hired now, gotta stop smoking weed though for the drug test. passenger not freight though.
Justin Walker
socialism encourages unions, but so do other ideologies. unionism does not equate to socialism. if that was true, the US would have been considered a socialist country in 1945 as over 70% of factories were unionized
Dominic Martin
You don't lurk enough. Socialists on /pol have commandeered common sense approaches like unions, and modern unions are no better than organized crime, they extort with little to no benefit. Socialists have us convinced at this point that unions are communist or at least socialist in nature.
Parker Hill
>freedom for workers to voluntarily form and join unions is part of the libertarian philosophy. That is true. But you leave out the fact that most unions can force NON-members to pay dues. That's inconsistent with NAP.
Colton Reyes
Based. Is the pay good?
Brandon Garcia
how refreshing
Bentley Torres
the labor reforms occured out of fear because with out them an actual revolution would have occured. many 'socialists' thought they would slowly turn the US socialist through passing laws stalin said they were dumb and as soon as things became too costly for the capitalists it would be right back to square one now amazon is planning to build company towns enjoy
Bentley Stewart
average, but the benefits are what make it worth it. always had a thing for trains and transportation and took the leap, first interview was on a zoom like service with HR and 6 other people all asking me questions, they even had the whole “why is diversity in the workplace important blah blah blah” I was kinda surprised, it’s a long process though, I’m in month 2, should be actually training in the next 2 months.
Hudson Taylor
imagine not prepping for this with stocks of food
Sebastian Gonzalez
No, it isn't, commie. There's nothing intrinsically socialist about negotiating a contract. It is the classical underpinning of the libertarian model. Do you negotiate your contract with your employer? Have you even signed one? Do you know what your entitlements and obligations are under your contract? Chances are that you don't, because you meakly allowed the employer to set the conditions of your employment like the good little communist that you are. Faggot.
Wyatt Flores
Unionism is more aligned with the concept of syndicalism, desu.
David Martinez
that time is coming to an end though. with mass social media people can coordinate together now
