I wonder if this is on purpose, that the White House is okay with shutting things down. They seem hell bent on destroying the economy and everything that this country used to stand for. This is another way for them to get one step closer to their ultimate goal. I've also heard chatter the past few months about some of the rail companies making it difficult for some companies to send cargo (fertilizer, etc.) by rail. Perhaps this fits into their goals as well of helping along the Great Reset. Why delay some of the cargo when you can delay all of it?
Within the past 48 hours, the rail carriers have begun to refuse long haul rail traffic. Amtrak is canceling trains outside of the Acela corridor in the northeast, and the cargo carriers are declining to carry potentially hazardous cargo such as ammonia-based fertilizer.
Ammonia fertilizer is what Timothy McVeigh used to blow up the FBI building in Oklahoma City. It was the key component in the 1947 Texas City disaster, where a cargo ship filled with ammonia fertilizer literally blew up on the Texas City docks.
I tend to agree with rail carriers that such hazardous cargo should not be left stranded in the middle of a rail line because of a strike, and so if there's going to be a strike then the carriers are doing the right thing by making sure that doesn't happen.
HOWEVER
The reason there could be a strike is because the carriers and the unions are not finding a suitable compromise to resolve contractual disagreements. Eventually, there will be a compromise, because that is what it will take to end the strike should one occur.
The risk of a strike happening, and the strike itself should it come to pass, is on the unions and the carriers jointly. There are no good guys here, no white hats.
Is the White House hopeful there will be a strike? I do not know. I tend to doubt it because a strike at this juncture would likely all but guarantee a red wave come the midterm elections which are now less than 60 days away. If Biden were a younger individual, and actually had a functioning brain, I would wonder if letting a strike happen were not a pretext for an actual coup d'etat.
There is ample evidence to support the thesis that unions are a mass formation maladaptive response. Union corruption has been proven so many times as to render the two words in sequence redundant.
That being the case, the wage and other concerns of the railroad workers are genuine concerns. Their desires are as real as the carriers' desire for profit.
The current reality of the rail industry is that it is unionized. It is also largely a cartel, with the few carriers going to great lengths to preserve their market power. Until the carriers are divested of their market power, any expectation the railroad workers will forego the market power of a union is simply a non starter.
Best quote: "Having glanced at the document myself, is is indeed 119 pages of not very much (which makes it the perfect metaphor for the Biden Regime)."
I wonder if this is on purpose, that the White House is okay with shutting things down. They seem hell bent on destroying the economy and everything that this country used to stand for. This is another way for them to get one step closer to their ultimate goal. I've also heard chatter the past few months about some of the rail companies making it difficult for some companies to send cargo (fertilizer, etc.) by rail. Perhaps this fits into their goals as well of helping along the Great Reset. Why delay some of the cargo when you can delay all of it?
Within the past 48 hours, the rail carriers have begun to refuse long haul rail traffic. Amtrak is canceling trains outside of the Acela corridor in the northeast, and the cargo carriers are declining to carry potentially hazardous cargo such as ammonia-based fertilizer.
Ammonia fertilizer is what Timothy McVeigh used to blow up the FBI building in Oklahoma City. It was the key component in the 1947 Texas City disaster, where a cargo ship filled with ammonia fertilizer literally blew up on the Texas City docks.
I tend to agree with rail carriers that such hazardous cargo should not be left stranded in the middle of a rail line because of a strike, and so if there's going to be a strike then the carriers are doing the right thing by making sure that doesn't happen.
HOWEVER
The reason there could be a strike is because the carriers and the unions are not finding a suitable compromise to resolve contractual disagreements. Eventually, there will be a compromise, because that is what it will take to end the strike should one occur.
The risk of a strike happening, and the strike itself should it come to pass, is on the unions and the carriers jointly. There are no good guys here, no white hats.
Is the White House hopeful there will be a strike? I do not know. I tend to doubt it because a strike at this juncture would likely all but guarantee a red wave come the midterm elections which are now less than 60 days away. If Biden were a younger individual, and actually had a functioning brain, I would wonder if letting a strike happen were not a pretext for an actual coup d'etat.
"Given that the last time railroad workers had enjoyed a pay raise was before the COVID-19 pandemic"
Unions improve the lives of their members every bit as well as government improves the lives of its voters.
There is ample evidence to support the thesis that unions are a mass formation maladaptive response. Union corruption has been proven so many times as to render the two words in sequence redundant.
That being the case, the wage and other concerns of the railroad workers are genuine concerns. Their desires are as real as the carriers' desire for profit.
The current reality of the rail industry is that it is unionized. It is also largely a cartel, with the few carriers going to great lengths to preserve their market power. Until the carriers are divested of their market power, any expectation the railroad workers will forego the market power of a union is simply a non starter.
Best quote: "Having glanced at the document myself, is is indeed 119 pages of not very much (which makes it the perfect metaphor for the Biden Regime)."
I has my moments! :P