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Well, the railway workers have rejected the latest contract
offer, a deal that was brokered by President Joe
Biden, sightings Regent Management roles on taking time off
for emergencies, raising fears of an imminent strike that
could cripple an already disrupted supply chain.
Railroaders are discouraged and upset with working
conditions and compensation and hold their employer
in low regard, said Tony Codwell, president
of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees division, in an October 10 statement.
After members voted 66 46 51 00 against ratification
of a tentative national agreement reached with Class One
freight railroads, they resent the fact that management holds
no regards for their quality of life, illustrated by
their stubborn reluctance to provide a higher quality of
paid time off, especially for sickness.
Evidently, they've been forced to work
even if they got cobid.
They can't even take time off if a family
members dies and they are on call seven days
a week, which means they can't plan for a
doctor's visit, a dentist visit, or even taking their
family for medical checkups because they're on call.
The result of the vote indicates that there has been
or is a lot of work to do to establish
goodwill and improve the morale that has been broken by
the railroad executives and Wall Street hedge fund managers.
BMWED is the third largest
railroad union in the country.
Here's a map of their rail system.
Nearly 12,000 BMWED members submitted
ballots for the latest vote.
The top two largest rate unions, representing
over 55,000 engineers and conductors, are currently
conducting their voting through mail.
Even if members from the other unions vote in
favor of the deal, they're likely not to report
to work, considering the rejection from BMW Ed.
What they'll do is they'll have a lockout and
all the other railways will honor the lockout.
A strike would deliberate us.
Supply chains while also disrupting passenger services.
Just before the critical Christmas and Thanksgiving holiday season,
both sides have agreed to renegotiate, and work is
scheduled to continue as normal until at least November
19, five days after Congress reconvenes.
The deal brokered by the Biden administration
contained a 20% pay raise, annual bonuses
of $1,000, and health care benefits.
Biden had said that the rail system
is the backbone of our supply chain.
Everything from clean water to food to gas, liquified,
natural gas, everything seems to be on a rail
getting delivered to where it needs to go.
The tentative deal was reached on
September 15, following a 20 hours
marathon of negotiations which involved US.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and the President.
Workers were supposed to gain an average payment
of $11,000 if the deal was ratified, along
with annual cash bonuses of $1,000.
Here's a map I don't know how up to
date it is for the national rail systems.
Purple is CSXT, up is the blue, BNSF is
the yellow, and you can read it all here.
I don't know if it shows.
Amtrak difficult work conditions do do staff shortages while they
laid off about 30% of the rail workers, which means
you got all these less people picking up the slack
of the 30% that were laid off.
Here's a map for the Union Pacific Railway.
Difficult conditions, work conditions due to
staff shortages of a main reason
for the agreement falling through.
Staff are often required to report seven days
a week and report to work on short
notice, which means they can't make plans.
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