(Source: Common Dreams, March 9, 2023)
Thursday’s U.S. Senate hearing about the ongoing environmental and public health disaster in East Palestine, Ohio “did not go well” for Norfolk Southern president and CEO Alan Shaw, the progressive media outlet More Perfect Union declared. Shaw refused to commit to providing workers with seven days of paid sick leave, ceasing stock buybacks, and abandoning Wall Street-endorsed policies that critics say contribute to the 1,500-plus derailments seen each year in the U.S., including Norfolk Southern’s toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month as well as a derailment that happened in Alabama just before the multimillionaire executive testified.
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