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anemone (animeirl@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 05:28:47 JST anemone
faulty train or track components caused by continuous cuts by the rail company to staffing, inspection, maintenance. saw a rail worker talking about how car inspection was recently cut in half. Works are also overworked so you have a bunch of exhausted overworked people forced to inspect each car in under 90 seconds now so ofc they are going to miss maintenance issues and stuff is eventually going to start falling apart. The rail union was striking over this and other issues like a month ago but good ol congress put a stop to that

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- 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 05:28:46 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
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  some poster on Reddit claimed her husband worked for a rail company and was waiting for this to happen so they could stop treating workers like shit and forcing them sign off on unsafe trains.
  
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- ☻ (mrsaturday@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:09:59 JST ☻
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  @animeirl @meowski @PhenomX6 @xianc78 @Futterish @coolboymew Exactly. I think that's why you're not seeing a lot of coverage about this. The so-called "voting for your own interests" party just completely fucked over a strike that would have helped solve this problem two months ago, and they have the microphones. If the Republicans weren't a bunch of kleptocrats that are happy playing bad cop for the Dems, they could eviscerate them over this.
  
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- cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:10:31 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @mrsaturday @animeirl @Futterish @PhenomX6 @meowski @xianc78 wait, so this partly connected to the strike?
  
  Oof
  
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- xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:10:50 JST xianc78
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  @coolboymew @PhenomX6 @meowski @Futterish @animeirl @mrsaturday We don't know for sure yet.
  
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- ☻ (mrsaturday@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:18:13 JST ☻
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  @coolboymew @Futterish @PhenomX6 @animeirl @meowski @xianc78 Tangentially. The strike was over working conditions creating mass turnover with rail companies, even though rail workers get killer benefits and pensions. The cause of this was Norfolk Southern ignoring regulatory measures. They're saying it was cost-cutting, but it's much harder to keep up with safety and accountability measures when you're so deep in lean management bullshit that you only have a bare minimum of exhausted and demoralized workers to run the train to begin with.
  
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- anemone (animeirl@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:19:19 JST anemone
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  sure but it's highly correlated since overworked employees with no time off working on unrealistic time scales are going to make more mistakes and miss critical maintenance issues as is the case here
  
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- Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:33:35 JST Moon
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  @mrsaturday @animeirl @Futterish @PhenomX6 @coolboymew @meowski @xianc78 In early 2022 there was a bunch of news stories about how things were so bad that "train robberies are now back" Union Pacific said that robberies of their trains in Los Angeles County had risen over 356% since 2020. Union Pacific and various Conservative hack outlets said it was because Soros-appointed prosecutors were refusing to punish criminals and letting thieves out on no money bail, but it turned out that the real reason was that Union Pacific fired almost all their guards to save money and other train companies weren't seeing similar losses.
  
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