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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(123,146 posts) Thu Jun 27, 2024, 04:20 PM Jun 2024

Freight train derails outside Chicago, evacuations underway

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Freight train derails outside Chicago, evacuations underway (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2024 OP

Railroad workers have lost their power to negotiate for track safety questionseverything Jun 2024 #1

Isn't track safety supposed to be a matter of federal regulation? Salvador Dolly Jul 2024 #2

questionseverything

(10,827 posts)

1. Railroad workers have lost their power to negotiate for track safety

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Thu Jun 27, 2024, 05:17 PM

Jun 2024

As well as negotiating to require enough workers on board to see problems ahead of time

So this is the new normal

Salvador Dolly

(71 posts)

2. Isn't track safety supposed to be a matter of federal regulation?

Reply to questionseverything (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:38 PM

Jul 2024

Whatever the underlying malfeasance by the railroad, something fishy going on with NTSB enforcement.

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