Railroad companies have penalized workers for taking the time to make needed repairs and created a culture in which supervisors threaten and fire the very people hired to keep trains running safely. Regulators say they can’t stop this intimidation.
I still don’t get why the president can’t tell the corporation to take the union contract if he can order the workers back to work. Seems like two sides of the same thing.
What I don’t get is why he has any power at all. This isn’t war time, tell the two sides to work it out without violence. The truck industry will be happy to take more business from them.
Railroad companies are a little special. The US government has nationalized the railways before, specifically in both world wars, so the government has been involved in their operation as critical infrastructure for over a century. And they still exert some of that influence in peacetime, in case war were declared.
I still don’t get why the president can’t tell the corporation to take the union contract if he can order the workers back to work. Seems like two sides of the same thing.
What I don’t get is why he has any power at all. This isn’t war time, tell the two sides to work it out without violence. The truck industry will be happy to take more business from them.
Railroad companies are a little special. The US government has nationalized the railways before, specifically in both world wars, so the government has been involved in their operation as critical infrastructure for over a century. And they still exert some of that influence in peacetime, in case war were declared.