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The TL;DR of the ongoing story is the train engineers tried to strike recently over these kinds of issues and our Congress stopped them from doing so. Now it’s
by ticviking 4y ago
The TL;DR of the ongoing story is the train engineers tried to strike recently over these kinds of issues and our Congress stopped them from doing so.
Now it’s an massive disaster that we were warned was coming and the basic measures to fix it(like hiring more engineers and letting them have sick days) won’t happen in a sane way.
- boppo1 4y agoYeah there's a lot of peop;e asking "why isn't everyone up in arms/hasn't this been all over the news?" The answer is democrats and republicans happily cosigned this check.
- hgsgm 4y agoThe unions negotiated for more sick/emergency time (supported by Democrats but blocked by Republicans), and argued that working sick/distracted would be a safety risk, but they did not negotiate for the equipment and maintenance changes that would have prevented this derailment. Wikipedia: > The trains were not equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes, which a former Federal Railroad Administration official said would have reduced the severity of the accident.[4] In 2017, Norfolk Southern had successfully lobbied to have regulations requiring their use on trains carrying hazardous materials repealed.[4] > About 48 hours later, the National Transportation Safety Board said it had preliminary findings that a mechanical problem on an axle of one of the cars led to the derailment.[9] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ohio_train_derailment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ohio_train_derailment