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This letter was sent by the Berlin Transport Workers Action Committee to the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee in the United States which is organising workers in opposition to the White House-brokered sellout contract announced last week to block a national strike.
Rail worker compensation and health benefits, the money they make and the benefits they get, and there is another step, members of the unions involved have to ratify it. we have cal perry, posted up at the cal station in california, and we talked about the big implications the rail strike could have had, it would have been huge is, it for sure averted, in other words do we know 100% how these unions are going to vote? >> we don't. and we know that one of the reasons there is a cooling off period is in case there is a vote no and the strike the next morning, for example, it so it won't put us i...
In the last 25 years, nearly 500 railroad workers have been killed while doing their jobs. Nearly 150,000 have been killed. The NTSB is trying to do something about it.
The National Transportation Safety Board has communicated significant concern about railroad worker safety.
The National Transportation Safety Board Thursday again called on the Federal Railroad Administration and Amtrak to put an immediate end to the use of “train approach warning” as the sole method of on-track safety in areas covered by positive train control.