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Re: Could unions strike to break up a carrier? No, not that it isn't part of the problem. It's not legal....
Author: BOB2
Date: 11-29-2022 - 16:01
SLSW Wrote:
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> I'll my own off-the-wall comment to the above
> bizarre comment.
>
> Hypothetically, could unions demand that a carrier
> make a structural change, like split into two
> separate carriers?
>
> For example, could unions demand that BNSF undo
> the last merger and go back to being the BN and
> ATSF? I heard there were a lot of unhappy union
> members after the BN merger in ~1970. I don't
> know all the specifics.
>
>
>
> I think I know the answer already, but just
> putting a wild idea out there.
>
> [i.ebayimg.com]-
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No. For better, or it seems mostly for the worse for lot's of RR shippers, employees, and ultimately consumers, that monopolistic cow, created by allowing these mega mergers, has sailed from the barn long ago... Merger mania is only partially responsible. Bad Union leadership over the years going back to sellouts and criminals like "landslide" Fred Hardin, or Byron Boyd goes back almost forty years, now. Reform attempts and and accumulated increasing worker resentment have not been able to offset the deterioration of the RR work environment, under cheap monopolies operating with inadequate personnel, to cut costs.
However, as the good Doctor (who actually worked for a real RR and was informed union member knows, RR unions are governed by the very limiting conditions of the Railway Labor Act, and such a strike, for the purposes of breaking up these monopolistic RR empires would be illegal.
As the good Doctor has noted, the entire negotiating and settlement process is pretty limited by law. The Union leadership had generally accepted the agreement and took it to a vote for a reason. And, while worker resentment is quite real, Congress is, based on the "gig four" going to impose that settlement.
Lot's of noise and whining, with these clever memes, from the useless and ignorant, expressing false "indignation", who are mostly the same train hating repressed pervier troll of many names won't change that reality any time soon.
Unions are constricted by the Railway Labor Act. So is Marco Rubio just trolling more crap like the trolls on AP, or does Little Marco actually propose changes to the Act giving all of these RR workers Little Marco claims to love more negotiating power?
LMAO... At all of these new found "friends" of the working man...
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> I'll my own off-the-wall comment to the above
> bizarre comment.
>
> Hypothetically, could unions demand that a carrier
> make a structural change, like split into two
> separate carriers?
>
> For example, could unions demand that BNSF undo
> the last merger and go back to being the BN and
> ATSF? I heard there were a lot of unhappy union
> members after the BN merger in ~1970. I don't
> know all the specifics.
>
>
>
> I think I know the answer already, but just
> putting a wild idea out there.
>
> [i.ebayimg.com]-
> l500.jpg
No. For better, or it seems mostly for the worse for lot's of RR shippers, employees, and ultimately consumers, that monopolistic cow, created by allowing these mega mergers, has sailed from the barn long ago... Merger mania is only partially responsible. Bad Union leadership over the years going back to sellouts and criminals like "landslide" Fred Hardin, or Byron Boyd goes back almost forty years, now. Reform attempts and and accumulated increasing worker resentment have not been able to offset the deterioration of the RR work environment, under cheap monopolies operating with inadequate personnel, to cut costs.
However, as the good Doctor (who actually worked for a real RR and was informed union member knows, RR unions are governed by the very limiting conditions of the Railway Labor Act, and such a strike, for the purposes of breaking up these monopolistic RR empires would be illegal.
As the good Doctor has noted, the entire negotiating and settlement process is pretty limited by law. The Union leadership had generally accepted the agreement and took it to a vote for a reason. And, while worker resentment is quite real, Congress is, based on the "gig four" going to impose that settlement.
Lot's of noise and whining, with these clever memes, from the useless and ignorant, expressing false "indignation", who are mostly the same train hating repressed pervier troll of many names won't change that reality any time soon.
Unions are constricted by the Railway Labor Act. So is Marco Rubio just trolling more crap like the trolls on AP, or does Little Marco actually propose changes to the Act giving all of these RR workers Little Marco claims to love more negotiating power?
LMAO... At all of these new found "friends" of the working man...
