East Palestine, Ohio train wreck: Railroad workers explain why Wall St is to blame
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What caused the Norfolk Southern train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, and who should be held accountable? Is the issue at hand just a problem of brakes, or i...

Great interview. Real News has been covering the train strike extensively for months.

Railroad Workers United member talks about their members having wanted to nationalize for years.

  • Tormato [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    At 24min mark rail workers Jeff Kurtz talks about how for years they’d had discussions about it, but were given to caution about coming out for nationalization. But last year had concluded that with the never-ending cuts to manpower, maintenance, pay and profit going only upward it finally must happen.

    This should be major front page news (if we had even a barely functioning media)!

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly, if Biden nationalizes the railroads over this, he'd get some pretty big critical support from me. He won't, but if he did...