'Do not let this thing be normalized,' said one railroad worker. 'It's time to take back our rail system from greedy profiteers who externalize risks and reap profits at our expense.'
"Do not let this thing be normalized," said one railroad worker."It's time to take back our rail system from greedy profiteers who externalize risks and reap profits at our expense."An inter-union alliance of rail workers argued Tuesday that the massive freight train crash in East Palestine, Ohio late last week was a predictable consequence of
"There is no way in the 21st century, save from a combination of incompetence and disregard to public safety, that such a defect should still be threatening our communities," wrote RWU, which supports nationalization of the U.S. rail system. The crash in Ohio"has been years in the making," the group added."What other such train wrecks await us remains to be seen. But given the modus operandi of the Class One rail carriers, we can no doubt expect future disasters of this nature."
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