#rail workers

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

[haveievermentioned]

After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought

[alanshemper]

Most Americans don't realize that the Railway Labor Act (1926) is the earliest formal recognition of organized labor in the US, and that it predates the National Labor Relations Act (1935) by nine years. Before that, they just sent the national guard to shoot you in the head if you struck. But the rail workers kept striking anyway, so...

[lukeskythejediguy]

they should invent a government that gives a shit about poor people

[joeywreck]

[thoughtportal]

call to action for the Ohio train derailment in East Palestine

https://www.house.gov/

https://www.transportation.gov/meet-secretary/secretary-pete-buttigieg

https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[scretladyspider]

Y’know what does worry me about a rail worker strike? All the people who need things like medicine or certain foods or medical devices who won’t get what they need because some rich assholes don’t want to treat railway workers as human. That’s what I worry about. Not like “but the economy!” no, it’s like “but the people who need the help that’s far away”. And what makes me more angry about it is the whole thing the rich do not care who is caught in that crossfire. They just don’t. Like fuck the people who are so wealthy they’re just like, holding the economy & the people who rely on goods being transported by train hostage because “oh but time off & sick leave & treating these people as human would make me slightly less rich” like fuck the economy and the ultra rich, but I hate to think about the plebeians who will need stuff in the meantime because these rich asshats are just too selfish to even care

eat the rich, they have no problem eating you