US railroad strike could happen in early December
Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Ron Reiring
One of the largest US rail workers’ unions, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS), is ready to go on strike as early as 5 December. Three more unions set 9 December as their deadline for the beginning of a strike. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) projected that a strike of these proportions could cost the national economy as much as two billion euros per day.
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Now, when rapid, sudden, shifts is the new normal, “better” and comparatives (“BUILD”, federal mantra…) is not sufficient – but devastatingly “cementing”!
(Ware owners, clients, since long have shifted to “On Demand” and no body, not even core clients of railways, afford luxury of not caring about “eta”.)
High quality (low risk) transport service handsomely is rewarded – and vice versa…
Resilency, the now needed, urgently calls for high quality – all the way, – at staff, etc.!