I recommend reading this piece by More Perfect Union.
These companies spend money lobbying for fewer regulations--and they get their way and fatter pockets. Meanwhile, we keep seeing more derailments--there were two on Monday alone!--more environmental destruction, and more suffering.
People were forced to leave their pets and other animals in the town--where they're now dying en masse.
#Ohio #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #NorfolkSouthern
Reported here:
https://qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giving-25-000-to-an-ohio-town-wher-1850094599
from twitter:
"five dollars per person for poisoning the air, water, and land of this town. all pets dead, the poisoned water now flowing into the ohio river on its way to the mississippi. five dollars"
https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1624215484945076224
You know what Evan Lambert was reporting on that got him tackled, handcuffed, arrested and charged?
The train derailment that did this.
You know what #RailroadStrike was about?
Preventing this.
Strikes Are Stronger Than Laws
https://inthesetimes.com/article/strikes-uk-labor-union-ontario-biden-rail-workers
#RailroadStrike #UnionStrong #NationalizeTheRailroads @[email protected] @[email protected] #UnionJobs #SupportUnions #VoteProgressive #FairPayForNursing #UnionsForAll #StrongerTogether @[email protected] #NHSStrikeNow
Railroads Riding High After Victory Against Workers
2 major railroads are pursuing a merger and a 3rd is retaliating against a worker
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/22/railroad-workers-retaliation-merger
#RailroadStrike #UnionStrong #NationalizeTheRailroads @[email protected] @[email protected] #SupportUnions #VoteProgressive
It's pretty sad seeing federal legislators trying to launder their involvement in breaking the rail strike. I mean, the best we can hope for is they didn't really get they were breaking a strike at the time? I kinda hope so, because if it was conscious then that's really bleak.
#RewritingHistory #RailStrike #RailroadStrike #Politics #StrikeBreaking #Bleak
Ryan Grim on Railroad Workers’ Rank-and-File Union Organizing & Vote on Yemen War Powers Resolution | Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/13/ryan_grim_on_railroad_workers_rank
#RailroadStrike #UnionStrong #NationalizeTheRailroads @[email protected] @[email protected] #UnionJobs #SupportUnions #VoteProgressive
Ryan Grim discusses his new piece, “The Railroad Fight Was the Product of Eight Years of Militant Rank-and-File Organizing,” and the pending vote on the Yemen War Powers Resolution in Congress.
A historical look at the post-World War II wave of wildcat strikes and the lessons that it leaves for the current terrain. by C. McCombs With the success of unionization in America in recent years––especially with Starbucks––a lot of folks have assumed an uncritically positive view of unions. They are not entirely wrong for this....
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Veirling | #MMIWG #LandBack
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