Hey, folks, @maximillian_alv here, thought you should see these photos a railroad worker sent me today: ONE day after Congress preemptively broke railroaders' strike & did nothing to stop rail carriers' destructive business practices, 2 Norfolk Southern trains derailed in PA & WV pic.twitter.com/LRjo5As4Kg— The Real News (@TheRealNews) December 3, 2022
I was also listening to the most recent Citations Needed news brief and a guest they had on said the number of rail workers has been cut by capitalists from like 500,000 to 130,000 over the last few decades. So they're doing an amount of work that was originally meant for a lot more people.
And no doubt that contributes to why they are hardly getting any days off and being forced to work while sick.
1704 WHAT
Why is it so fucking high? This literally doesn't happen at all over here.
Rail workers not getting days off for months at a time and being required to work while sick
I was also listening to the most recent Citations Needed news brief and a guest they had on said the number of rail workers has been cut by capitalists from like 500,000 to 130,000 over the last few decades. So they're doing an amount of work that was originally meant for a lot more people.
And no doubt that contributes to why they are hardly getting any days off and being forced to work while sick.
Deferred track maintenance and decaying infrastructure also plays a role.