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The patience of 120,000 railroaders is at an end. They are tired of being bureaucratically denied their constitutionally protected right to strike by an unaccountable bureaucracy working with the carriers and Washington.
With the unions, it is not a question of whether they will betray but how. The critical question is: How will workers respond?
Railroaders told the WSWS that the SMART-TD agreement is worse than the Presidential Emergency Board recommendations, which were widely rejected by the rank-and-file.
Workers are livid after the two largest rail unions revealed on Friday, less than a day after blocking a national strike, that no tentative agreements yet exist between the unions and the carriers.
Since the PEB issued its recommendations, the rail unions have maintained a guilty silence.