Is there any chance of a new and larger rail worker strike?

6 comments

1. We have a rail worker strike?

2. Unlikely in the immediate term given the intervention.

   What seems more likely is that people will continue to leave the profession while fewer enter it, exacerbating the current short staffing issues which caused a lot of the working conditions that lead to the strike in the first place.

3. Huh? I didn’t even know there was a smaller railroad strike to begin with.

4. No.

   This will lead to greater safety enforcement and possibly new regulations, but there is no justification for a new strike.

5. Doubt it. This will likely just lead to stricter regulations on rail safety in some fashion, if anything at all.

6. Good incentive for them to strike again since they got screwed over last time… But the odds aren’t in their favor, and it’s just as likely they’d just get steamrolled again