UAW president Shawn Fain: "I truly find it pathetic when I hear Trump—a scab—talk about how he's going to bring back the auto industry and bring it back fast. When he was president, he didn't do a damn thing to help the auto industry. Plants were closing and left this country, and he did nothing to help it.”
  • Rentlar
    8•2 months ago

    Note that there are some 12 “train labor unions” or so who were involved in the negotiations between legislators and freight companiws and themselves. I agree with you that this was received generally positively, but I need to point out that IBEW didn’t speak for all of rail labor and some unions weren’t happy in the end.

    List of railway worker unions in the negotiation:

    • International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Div. (SMART-TD)
    • Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (BMWE)
    • Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET)
    • Brotherhood Railway Carmen (BRC)
    • Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS)
    • International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)
    • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
    • Transportation Communications International Union (TCU)
    • National Conference of Firemen and Oilers (NCFO)
    • American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA)
    • International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Div., Yardmasters Dept. (SMART-TD-YDM)
    • International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART)
    • International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Blacksmiths, Iron Ship Builders, Forgers and Helpers (IBB)