Re: RR unions losing?
Author: Hot Water
Date: 11-06-2022 - 17:52
Phoebe Snow's Boyfriend Wrote:
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> Hot Water Wrote:
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> > Who would operate the trains then? The
> military?
> > THAT would be interesting.
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> Well there was Conrail which was, in effect, a
> regional nationalization of several railroads in
> financially precarious situations including
> bankruptcy.
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> Amtrak is a nationalization of the nation's
> passenger rail service.
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> No military was/is involved in running either...
Completely different situations. If all the current railroad employees walk out, and the government "orders" them back to work, and those employees refuse, then just who is left to operate the trains? There would be no "Conrail employees" nor "Amtrak employees", per you examples.