The TE has leaked and the voting timeline was announced. I have yet to hear a rail say they will vote for this. The vote won't be counted until after the election. Strike or not, the end result will be a cramdown by Congres of the TE or close to it. Quality of life issues barely address and the can kicked down the road again. Resulting in a mass resignations soon after the back pay is paid or once the economy rebounds. Class Ones unable to hire and retain enough to make up for it. Unless Biden does some kind of mass legallization of illegal aliens or the economic recession gets really bad.

Ultimately this traces back to Hunter Harrison (rest in piss) but the breaking point might be HiViz. It is the easiest example the media could cite of the horrible working conditions. The symbol of why we strike an will quiit. The worst of the worst policies.

Carl Ice took over for Matt Rose in 2014. Am I wrong, or did BNSF's tightening of the screws on labor not really start until Ice took over? I recall that in 2012 BNSF was the best C1 to work for and CSX second. NS had always been terrible.

By 2015 BNSF was starting to tear up agreements and ramrod major changes. Not all at once but a progression of worse and worse changes. Obviously a stratgy to target labor. Katie Farmer just continued the beatings, but the course was set long beforehand. So how is Carl Ice not to blame? His tenure, he had to be aware of it, he had to have approved it. Why doesn't he deserve villification?