AllGarbage

AllGarbage t1_itwy3q4 wrote

My neighbor is a conductor for Union Pacific. In talking to him, he says the pay really isn't the top issue for him and his peers (though they haven't got a pay raise in 4 years during this inflationary time and it's definitely not a non-issue).

He says he gets no sick time and their health care benefits are about to get worse, but for him the big elephant in the room is that the unionized workers have less say about how to do their jobs, they're being encouraged to do things like mount/dismount from moving rail cars to save time (rather than bringing them to a complete stop), and the job has gotten a lot more dangerous than it was 20 years ago.

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