Ok I dont get why do many people are mad, the workers will still get a 24% pay raise which is huge. Congress made the right decision here
Do you know what it is like to be on one of those damn trains?
They run their people ragged, all in the name of optimal efficiency. In part, because we as a country screw the railroads over on taxation, meanwhile subsidize their grossly inefficient competitors with endless amounts of government spending.
Trains are the most efficient way to haul freight around, because of scale and because of rolling resistance.
There is no way these establishment neoliberals who work in nice offices and wonder "they are getting 24% increase, why don't they shut up and be happy", could ever know what it is like to be run mentally ragged, or deal with the PTSD if God forbid they hit someone.
I am not saying its not tough but the question is that a strike should have been avoided at all purposes. Like I am not sure if it was possible to do what JoJu said here which was congress amend the deal to say reduce the pay increase to 15% but add in the 7 paid sick days but I think the people clearly to blame here were the unions not Congress.
the Union put both their Workers and our economy in a precarious situation and I am not really sure what could have been done at this page
