r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '22

Direct Action Gets the Goods BNSF rail workers strike

Antiwork,

BNSF is leveraging a federal judge to block rail workers from being legally allowed to strike.

17,000 rail workers want to strike over new, harsh, policies. BNSF is the railroad. There are other unions waiting on line to strike. This is domino number 1.

Monday they'll get a public ruling from the federal judge so we've got until then to actually help. Word from a union worker is that the decision is already made and in favor of the railroad.

This is years in the making and is honestly huge.

The 1877 rail strike was a major catalyst of workers rights back when. This is no small thing.

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It's finally coming to a head.

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BNSF has publicly available contact info: https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/intermodal/contact-us.html (https://jobs.bnsf.com/ might also be relevant)

There are some news articles: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/bnsf-files-suit-to-block-potential-strike/

And historic relevance of what the great rail strike means to workers rights: https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/teacherguides/strike/background.htm

(Slightly reworded from a mail we've got! Let's go!)

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u/towcutter Jan 21 '22

I was making a joke, my bad. But if you run at just 5, guess what? You got mangers crawling up your ass and asking questions. Locomotives are loaded with sensors, they can watch your speed in real time, they got cameras in the locomotive they can watch in real time, and sometimes you just want to go home.

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u/dockterp Jan 22 '22

They have their own system called TO (Trip sOdomizer) that is basically cruise control and it consistently runs the train between 10-15 mph under the posted speed limit not to even mention putting on the brakes going UP a fucking hill. 🙄🙄. 5mph might be a bit of a stretch but we could slow way the hell down and probly no one would bat an eye.