The “JCs” agree the government should bring the hammer and force road workers to work against their will.
Steve
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Its been done before. In the 1947 strike Truman threatened to end rail workers draft deferment and let them run the railroads as GIs.
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Air traffic controllers fired!
The Captain
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The “JCs” agree the government should bring the hammer and force road workers to work against their will.
I guess they figure there are some things the government can do right…?
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Nope. Gives the “JCs” more time to figure out alternatives to rail–if possible. Remember: Congress can only delay things for a certain time–then the railroad workers can do as they choose and Congress can do nothing.
There is a simple solution, but it would take some years to implement.
Hence the “…?”
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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I think only barges are more cost effective at moving large quantities of materials, and those require rivers. Trains are very cost effective as well, but not quite as much. At least with train tracks you can lay those (mostly) where you want. Trucks excel at “point to point, where ever that happens to be” but are expensive (those pesky drivers want to earn a living).
In other words, for some things, there simply is not a better way than rail.
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Correct. But the “JCs” refuse to spend the money to fix their problem with the railway workers, so they will “delay, delay, delay” until the strike is inevitable and then they will blame the workers.
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Yes, they will try but it won’t work. The strike has nothing to do with pay, it is all about outdated and unfair working conditions. This makes most people sympathetic with the cause. Except Elon Musk, of course.
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Yup. The trucking “JCs” have been crying for years about a “driver shortage”. Having mostly broken the Teamsters, they have changed the nature of the job, like hiring “owner operators” to fob most of the CAPEX, running costs, and risk, off on the drivers, the job isn’t attractive anymore.
Steve
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…and demand that the “big gummit” they hate solve the problem they created for them.
Steve
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NO PROBLEM !!
The “JCs” are to report to the rail yard at 4am, to start their FIRST shift.
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Reporting at 4am isn’t the problem.
When the JC’s have to report to the rail yard in 10 minutes because they are on call 24/7, and the dispatcher can’t tell them when they will be back from this trip, then the problems will start to be solved.
–Peter
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The solution is simple.
There were several unions that voted on this. There are other unions that would have to strike along side even if they did not get to vote on this. There were only a few that voted against this of those who could vote on it most approved the deal.
There is a lot of worker anger. It was just as much the worker anger for the no votes as wanting and deserving more.
Most of the workers wanted this deal.
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Not arguing with your post but the quote
The “JCs” agree the government should bring the hammer and force road workers to work against their will.
is not from FCorelli. It’s from Steve203. I just don’t want any anthropologists to get confused 1,000 years from now.
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Latest news article:
“People are going to work with the flu, and working around very dangerous equipment sick because we have no time off,” a BNSF railway conductor of over a decade told Insider. “When you’re on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can’t schedule a doctor’s appointment or dentist appointment, take the day off for your wife’s birthday. I mean, it’s just made it nearly impossible to get any time off.”
The group representing management at the nation’s largest freight railroads defended the current agreement in a statement, noting that it includes the largest wage increases in nearly five decades and platinum-level healthcare coverage. But four out of 12 rail unions voted down the agreement and are preparing for a work stoppage that could mean [canceled holiday travel]
The Transportation Division of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD), which has over 28,000 eligible voting members, narrowly voted down the proposal. At the same time, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), narrowly voted to ratify the agreement. Both saw record turnout for the votes.
“Both votes were close. They barely failed, we barely ratified is one way to look at it,” Pierce told Insider.
While BLET is moving forward on ratifying the contract, the other unions — like SMART-TD — could still end up out on the picket line in early December. If any union does strike, Pierce said, “no other union is going to cross that picket line in the railroad biz.”
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A part of me would rather these guys all go out on strike. Their working conditions are total Bull! We as a nation need to grow up. The childish supply side it is all about “ME” deserves to hear no the blank it is not.
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We old phartz remember when the Machinists union struck five US airlines at the same time.
Steve
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Which is why US airline JCs outsourced aircraft maintenance to foreign nations. Not 100% but quite a bit. It varies by airline.