Railroad strike

[FartingMonk 3608]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/09/economy/freight-railroad-strike/index.html

 

If this happens how much more shit is the supply chain in?

[Parliament 14296]

46 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

 

 

If this happens how much more shit is the supply chain in?

Yes.

And your link is borked.  Lemme help you out, Brother: 

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122918098/railroads-freight-rail-union-strike-train-workers

 

They're tired of unpredictable, inflexible work schedules. They're tired of being penalized for taking days off when they're sick or tending to a family emergency. They want a better quality of life.

Now, they're making their voices heard, threatening a strike that could bring trains to a halt nationwide on Friday.

Freight railroads and the unions representing more than 100,000 rail workers have been negotiating a contract for several years. The stakes are high and a presidential emergency board appointed by President Biden recommended a compromise over the summer that would give workers a 24% increase in wages. Both sides — the unions and the railroad companies — have essentially agreed to the board's economic proposals.

But there remains one major sticking point that could derail all of it: a workplace attendance policy that the unions call draconian.

[fattyflattie 4638]

Fuck that 25% raise, need some WFH thrown in too. 

[elfenix 34332]

read somewhere they have to be on call ~340 days a year.  sounds like the railroads need to hire a fuck ton more people. 

[LonghornJones 837]

They won't even need rails in the future.

[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

They’ve already reached a Tentative Agreement.

They’re on call all the time and can get bumped off their schedules if someone more senior wants it. It’s a rough lifestyle. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4977]

Part of the whole scheduling deal is due to dumb seniority rules that the Unions probably pushed and aren't likely to give up.

[Wally Fairway 5586]

14 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

Railroad strike

Umpire called it a ball
No strike today
Now we wait for replay (err ratification vote)

[UT_OB1 2225]

How about they stop parking a fucking train across the highway at 445 pm for 30 minutes and screwing up rush hour commute?  Maybe I’ll give a shit about their poor working conditions when they don’t act like commute terrorists. 

Edited September 15, 2022 by UT_OB1

[FartingMonk 3608]

16 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

How about they stop parking a fucking train across the highway at 445 pm for 30 minutes and screwing up rush hour commute?  Maybe I’ll give a shit about their poor working conditions when they don’t act like commute terrorists. 

You must be a poor.  They only do that to poor people 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13523]

Train tracks cut across major roads in Houston without an over/under pass. Rush hours is a favorite time for freight to cross Houston.

[YGIFS 19452]

1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

How about they stop parking a fucking train across the highway at 445 pm for 30 minutes and screwing up rush hour commute?  Maybe I’ll give a shit about their poor working conditions when they don’t act like commute terrorists. 

I bet that just started in the last 18 months, right?  Before that the tracks were just strippers covered in glitter?  

The train crossings in Texas, I'll give you this, are comically bad.  Like we didn't have any time to prepare since 1845 for the advent of the locomotive.  We are really fucking bad at transportation as a state, doubly more disturbing since we're apparently one of your larger states after Alaska and Vermont.  

[Fudge Nuggets 19224]

2 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Maybe I’ll give a shit about their poor working conditions when they don’t act like commute terrorists. 

No you won’t

[UT_OB1 2225]

5 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

You must be a poor.  They only do that to poor people 

Probably correct 

2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

No you won’t

Eh. Definitely correct. 

[fattyflattie 4638]

3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

No you won’t

Exactly. 

[Storm the Field 5302]

18 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Train tracks cut across major roads in Houston without an over/under pass. Rush hours is a favorite time for freight to cross Houston.

My kingdom for overpasses on Shepherd and Durham over the train tracks just north of Washington.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13523]

4 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

My kingdom for overpasses on Shepherd and Durham over the train tracks just north of Washington.

Truer words have never been spoken. Nothing like going to work/home and knowing that you have a 5 minute cushion and then you see the RR arms drop in front of you. you're screwed.

[tx 3 putt 77427]

23 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Train tracks cut across major roads in Houston without an over/under pass. Rush hours is a favorite time for freight to cross Houston.

 

many many tracks in my minority neighborhood. it might be a 3 min or 30 min wait. you learn quickly the routes to avoid those delays

[UTPhil2006 3812]

22 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

many many tracks in my minority neighborhood. it might be a 3 min or 30 min wait. you learn quickly the routes to avoid those delays

And those routes would be Acadian Coast and El Tiempo, huh?

[Incredulity 11683]

On 9/15/2022 at 10:56 AM, Wally Fairway said:

Umpire called it a ball
No strike today
Now we wait for replay (err ratification vote)

Full count

 

this could be brutal 

[Captainant 27771]

Pretty crazy that the rail companies are willing to face a billion in lost revenue A DAY just to avoid treating their workers like human beings instead of numbers. Seems like poor long term management decision making to me

Edited November 27, 2022 by Captainant

[Js1 85574]

13 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Pretty crazy that the rail companies are willing to face it a billion in lost revenue A DAY just to avoid treating their workers like human beings instead of numbers. Seems like poor long term management decision making to me

Sounds like American capitalism to me 

[Captainant 27771]

Unsurprising ending to the story of strangling the railwork worker strike and denying them sick leave:

Union Pacific posts record earnings, spends more on share repurchases than on its employees

We just can't expect a company to be able to survive without enriching its shareholders through stock repurchases! Those damn lazy sick employees just need to get their bootstraps on