• @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Maybe I’m uninformed, but how are rail strikes, which are common in my country, massive harm that a government of half a continent feels the need to step in?

    • Cethin
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      141 year ago

      It was going to be a massive rail strike in a situation where logistics were already strained. The US is run by rail, despite how little we invest into it. It’s an absolutely massive amount of land area, and the only reasonable way to transport things across it is rail. It would have crippled almost every business.

      That said, if the workers are that important they should get everything they demand. The Biden administration did get them some of their demands, which is better than I expected, they should get more.

    • Chetzemoka
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      Are you talking about passenger rail strikes or freight? Because in the States, we have no meaningful passenger rail, but our geographical area is SO enormous that freight rail is critical. It makes up like 40% of all freight transport. So shutting the entire thing down would have been more than an inconvenience. It could have cost a lot of other people in other industries their jobs. Also, it could have caused shortages of food, gasoline, chemicals for purifying water, etc.

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/looming-rail-strike-would-take-a-major-toll-on-u-s-economy

      https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3644798-how-bad-would-a-rail-strike-have-been/

    • Silverseren
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      71 year ago

      They aren’t as common here and this was a rail strike that could prevent the transportation of any number of important things, enough to impact multiple states and millions of people.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      Some people like strikebreaking for its own sake and will make up any excuse to do it.

      Watch the news for whining about high car prices from people who were fine with high car prices a few weeks ago.