The press conference was an attempt at damage control for the Democratic Party and the trade union apparatus, two months after a bipartisan vote in Congress to impose a contract which railroaders had rejected.
TUCSON, Ariz. (PAI) Angry members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen took out their ire over the national freight rail contract agreed to by union leaders, including their longtime President Dennis Pierce, by throwing the latter out of his job.
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The move is being presented by the railroads as merely shifting conductors to the new “expediter,” but this cannot conceal the fact that the proposal is for one-man crews, which will lead to major job losses.