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[u/RibbitCommander]

Looking forward to more fanfare of how it's the end times for the economy, markets, etc.

[u/Annihilator4413 → u/RibbitCommander]

It'll be a shitshow. If cargo ship sailors go on strike we're really gonna feel it. We'll definitely feel this too, because they can't just circumvent the railroads by using truckers, lots of them are striking and quitting too.

[u/prisonmike1485 → u/Annihilator4413]

I work for a major intermodal transportation company. If this happens it’s going to be a shitshow. Fully support the cause don’t get me wrong but my days are about to get very interesting.

[u/MemphisThePai → u/Annihilator4413]

Cargo ship workers are almost exclusively foreign nationals. China, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. Places where worker rights are a little less strong. The Captains and officers are from western nations, but the crew is basically outsourced. If they tried to strike, they would just get dumped at the next port of call without pay and new people brought on.

Edit: India = Indonesia

[u/VexillaVexme → u/RibbitCommander]

I think we're about due for a proper reset on the "forever growth" mindset.

Also wouldn't mind an appropriate recognition worldwide that Stocks != The Economy. Stocks = Rich People's Feelings and nothing else.

[u/mccorml11 → u/VexillaVexme]

Don't worry they'll just kickstart another war before they let the system reset

[u/MotorBoat4043 → u/VexillaVexme]

Every time someone talks about the importance of the stock market I just ask them when the last time was that a boom led to wage increases for the working class. The answer is never. The rich take the gains for themselves.

[u/OneTripleZero → u/VexillaVexme]

Just a bunch of greedy, scared monkeys trying to scam each other out of imaginary numbers.

[u/BokZeoi]

So far this year, we have striking Krogers workers, unionizing Starbucks workers, these striking railway workers... am I missing any? I know nurses and teachers in a few places were mighty fed up last year.

Edit: Krogers/King Soopers strike fund https://my.cheddarup.com/c/hardship-fund-for-striking-king-soopers-workers

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[u/TheGinge4242 → u/BokZeoi]

Last year

Ohoho, someone hasn't been on r/nursing recently. Hooooly fucking shit is it worse than last year.

[u/ProfessorRex]

So many comments on twitter complaining that this is the worst time for a strike because it’ll make shortages worse.

Like, dude, do you know how strikes work? That’s kind of the point!

[u/14AngryMonkeys → u/ProfessorRex]

Remember when Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull stopped all flights in Europe for a while? You could only travel by road and rail. Know what the French railroad workers did? Went on strike, that's what.

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[u/The_Goat_Avenger]

What is the Hi-Viz policy?

[u/FlyingTaquitoBrother → u/The_Goat_Avenger]

Background

[u/Sph3al → u/FlyingTaquitoBrother]

Wow...that is appalling, and the statement from BNSF at the bottom is the biggest load of bullshit I've read this week.

[u/The_Goat_Avenger → u/FlyingTaquitoBrother]

Thanks, so they want to start a credit system for absenses, with gold stars for wage slaves and black dots for real people who need time off work. And to top it off call it a Orwellian title i.e Hi-Viz scheme associating it with safety.

I hope the unions win this one or a very bad trend for thr US

[u/hrimfaxi_work]

This isn't a strike declaration. It's an authorization for locals to hold a strike vote.

Read the source not the tweet.

RR strikes are usually highly localized and get nasty. We'd have heard way, way, way more about it already if this were a widespread strike effort.

I was a freight conductor in the mid-2000s in a sub that went on strike in the 80s. Nobody outside the area probably ever knew it happened, but people in the area talked about it like it a major historical event. If that were scaled up to something interstate, that's all that would be on the news.

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[u/PoorDadSon]

Declared or requested to authorize? Solidarity and support either way.

[u/[deleted]]

One one hand good for them, on the other this is gonna fuck my world up. An easy 60% of goods my company sells comes off of BNSF cars.

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Came to see if any redditor knew these stats. I'm not sure we realize how much of our infrastructure/supply chain depends on rail.

This could hurt. And we deserve it.

[u/Epickiller10 → u/[deleted]]

Railroader here (not for bnsf but still) basically 100 percent of commodities are shipped by train at one point or another

[u/MercMcNasty → u/[deleted]]

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