The patience of 120,000 railroaders is at an end. They are tired of being bureaucratically denied their constitutionally protected right to strike by an unaccountable bureaucracy working with the carriers and Washington.
The BRS is the third of 12 unions to have rejected their respective tentative agreements, with a collective membership equal to one-third the total workforce.
In repeated statements, both BLET and SMART-TD have insisted that workers, through the vote, will “have the final say” on the five-year contract, but the process so far has been completely opaque, raising the need for rank-and-file oversight.
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