The Lac Mégantic Rail Disaster: Ten Years Later
Ten years ago today, an unmanned train carrying 72 tankers full of highly combustible crude oil careened down a mountain…
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Ten years ago today, an unmanned train carrying 72 tankers full of highly combustible crude oil careened down a mountain…
The trains must go through! As you might imagine, there was quite a mess to clean up in order to…
Please excuse the length of this post. But once I went down the rabbit hole, I couldn’t get out. To…
Continued from Part 1: The Causes The Politics: Continued Warfare or a New Age of Bipartisanship? The politics of the…
The East Palestine rail disaster is bad. But it’s not even close to a worst-case scenario. We have seen worse,…
Today is December 9, where in an alternative world America’s rail workers would be walking off the job and setting…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced last night that the House would vote today on whether to impose the Tentative Agreement…
When last we discussed employer greed labor problems in the rail industry, President Joe “the most labor-friendly President in American…
Does this seem like a good way to attract loyal, dedicated, satisfied workers? Come work for the railroad. It’s a…
And we have an agreement…. I was over at the Department of Labor building yesterday and there were paper signs…