(Source: Kansas City Star, December 11, 2022)
The seven Class I freight carriers — the country’s largest and best known railroads — all espouse safety as top priorities. But in the last few years, new business models have intensified railroads’ efforts to boost profits. And that has led to deep cuts to staffing and deteriorated relationships with employees, who only averted a national rail strike this month by an act of Congress.
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