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Illinois

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(112,631 posts) Thu Jun 27, 2024, 04:20 PM Jun 27

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Freight train derails outside Chicago, evacuations underway (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 27 OP

Railroad workers have lost their power to negotiate for track safety questionseverything Jun 27 #1

Isn't track safety supposed to be a matter of federal regulation? Salvador Dolly Jul 11 #2

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

Thu Jun 27, 2024, 05:17 PM

Jun 27

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

So this is the new normal

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

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:38 PM

Jul 11

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