Sound Transit announcement.
In the event of a national rail strike, Sounder commuter rail service between Everett and Lakewood and Seattle would be canceled beginning Friday, September 16 until workers return. Sounder will operate regular service on Thursday, September 15.
Sounder trains are operated by unionized BNSF Railways employees under contract on tracks owned by BNSF. Sounder trains are also dispatched by BNSF employees affected by a potential strike.
Sound Transit is working with its partners to add additional bus service on existing ST Express routes that overlap with Sounder where possible.
Railroad companies and unions representing tens of thousands of workers reached a tentative deal to avoid a strike.
Isn’t holding people hostage for a ransom a form of terrorism?
We aren’t paying billions in taxes to build infrastructure, only to be held hostage by unions.
In the army, we were paid meagerly for our “service”, but we showed up and did the job faithfully.
In private business we live or die on decisions we make and the work that we do.
The pay, safety net, and benefit package of public employment or the railroad, which are obviously intertwined, seems more than ample to me, as most of life’s risk has been taken off the table.
It isn’t We the Peoples’ fault this administration has driven the cost of living through the roof.
Suffer with the rest of us and vote for better leadership.