Tragically and brilliantly sums it all up. This "temporary" injunction--how long is temporary? If you can't strike, negotiations will go nowhere, what's your only recourse? The only way to get the corporation's attention (hit 'em in the bottom line) is for thousands of folks to quit and leave the company high and dry. It would look like UP after they absorbed SP; parked trains going nowhere, all over the mainline. I have heard many are; even folks with 30+ years seniority. Almost to retirement, yet ready to quit over this, fearing for their jobs. Many have already left. Who wants to job hunt at that stage of your career? It's a no-win situation, unless you invested and can comfortably outright retire. If you didn't/couldn't save a good nest egg, or are early in your career, how do you put food on the table? Good-paying jobs are out there, just not plentiful. And with the specialized skills of a railroader not really applicable in most other industries, you'd really be starting over at square one.
The problem still remains- why should the union even be negotiating with them, over this fraud? BTW- The RR is now trying to use false numbers of how many days the employees work. They do not explain how so many of those days not on a train they are sitting, waiting for a call. Especially when stuck in a motel at their away from home terminal. AWAY from home, family, friends, personal things they need to be doing, etc, etc, etc! I guess this is in some wildly twisted, contorted way some sort of leisure time off, where they are gleefully playing and enjoying life? When enough people retire or quit over this idiocy, this may just be their convoluted, sick way of trying to justify going with one person crews.
Does an impartial judge exist? An injunction is an injustice to 17,000 rail workers. A strike is a no-brainer. No way to negotiate this without wholly scrapping the "policy". Unconditional surrender was our message to Japan to end WW2; unconditional revocation of this policy needs to be BNSF crews' stance. No way rail industry will improve its safety or service to the nation with this policy. Exhausted, inattentive crews, and any incident will be their fault, not the corporate policy at large that drove the fatigue. The sad part is the workers suffer, no matter how you slice it.
The one thing she is getting wrong - the BNSF strike action is not about wages, it is about the attendance policy that doesn't allow the work force enough time off to attend to their families and personal business and be able to spend the wages that they do receive on virtually anything except a casket and a burial plot.
AND you expected the press to be correct 100% of the time? These guys do better than most, but it is a difficult concept for most people to understand just how being on call 24/7 works at a person. And works over a persons health and sanity and etc.
The Railway Labor Act in simple terminology: http://www.pennfedbmwe.org/Docs/ref...4fDYIAC2EWoQYDIROgJkF3W3t-e-T3dQ1TzAG5WVncUnk
At one time the railroad management acting like miscreants brought on government regulation. Now they're back at it again.
The temporary strike restraining order is being pushed for an injunction. When does the original one expire? https://ble-t.org/news/blet-smart-t...ary-injunction-in-attendance-dispute-at-bnsf/
According to the previous article, the temporary injunction was supposed to expre on "Tuesday." Since that was published on Monday, then the injunction expired either yesterday or a week from yesterday. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
One possibility for the workers: https://www.thestand.org/2022/02/pa...gb1Zpfok75lDMcZwdW1yEOzVHiANOFlQLRT6srwAFuuIE
