While it should work like this, do you think people will care enough in two weeks to push the regulator to change anything to US railroad incentives? => Why di

While it should work like this, do you think people will care enough in two weeks to push the regulator to change anything to US railroad incentives? => Why didn't the authors talk to the workers? Because, as they explain in the article, the workers don't say anything as they fear retaliation.