Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/ive-been-a-train-conductor-for-17-years-corporate-greed-has-ruined-the-railroads
Bryan Mack is a second-generation railroad worker from Florence, South Carolina, with a Masters in Music Performance. Both Bryan and his father worked for CSX Transportation, each hiring out at times when there were statistically few Black employees or employees of color working on the railroads. For 17 years, Bryan has worked as a conductor for CSX; in that time, he has seen and experienced firsthand the worsening conditions as the industry has been taken over by greedy executives and upper-level managers hellbent on cutting costs and maximizing profits for their shareholders at the expense of workers, customers, and the public at large. As part of our continuing coverage of the crisis on the nation’s railroad system, we talk with Bryan about his life and work on the railroads, and about the good, bad, and ugly parts of the industry that outsiders may not see, including the discriminatory treatment that Bryan and other workers of color have faced on the job—up to CSX’s recent decision to fire him under dubious circumstances.
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)
Jules Taylor, “Working People Theme Song”
Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor
Click here for addition links: https://workingpeople.libsyn.com/bryan-mack
The Real News is an independent, viewer-supported, radical media network. Help us expand our in-depth analysis and coverage from Baltimore to Bangladesh by subscribing and becoming a member today!
Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-yt
Sign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-yt
Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnews
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews
** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) **
A vote for trump is a vote for freedom!!! â¤
I play tuba too!
Very interesting conversation
Why does China have high-speed railroads with no derailments.
Wall Street has ruined America
Why have we in America rolled over, and relinquished to Tyrants our Conscience as individuals, our Collective Conscience as a Country, our role as the Government. Of, by, and for the People.
"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free, and open society".
Honorable President John F. Kennedy April 27, 1961 Waldorf Astoria NY
When Politicians can imprison Whistleblowers, and Journalists for revealing their abhorrent crimes against Humanity Liberty is lost. Tyranny is afoot. This is wrong on many levels. The simplest, and most obvious is that it is a violation of the first amendment to the Constitution. Our first amendment to freedom of speech is to first ensure freedom of the press. The corrupt corporate fascism taking place under the guise of, and deceptively mislabeled as lobbying, grants, campaign donations, and foreign aide, grotesquely, dishonestly justified under a perverted, twisted view of the first amendment as protected free speech? When money is involved it is a financial transaction. Not speech. Mischaracterizing a financial transaction as speech to establish a corporate fascist control mechanisim to pander to corporate elites against the best interest of the Citizens, the Planet, and the people of Earth is deceptive, vile, reprehensible, and a crime. Utilizing money to influence a Representatives decision, influence the outcome of Judicial preceedings, or influence Legislation is a crime. When something is free, money is not involved.
According to Webster.
free
adjective
Synonyms of free
: not costing or charging anything
a free school
a free ticket
How can corporate fascism dishonestly disguised, and masquerading as foreign aide, lobbying, campaign contributions, and grants when thousands, or even hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars involved with super pacs be protected under free speech? Corrupt financial transactions utilized to influence decisions of the representatives of "We the People" to influence legislation that negatively effects the Citizens, and the Planet to benefit a business, or corporation is wrong on multiple levels. Links to one example of thousands of examples below. "We the People" have individually, and collectively relinquished our Citizenship. While everyone is busy being manipulated, deceived, played, and pitted against each another Human Rights, America, Life, Liberty, Justice, The Pursuit of Happiness, our individual, and collective conscience are being slowly, systematically destroyed. We are subjects of Tyrants. Welcome to their New World Order, Great Reset, Tyrannical agenda. We have relinquished in silence what so many have fought,sacrificed,and died to preserve, and protect. Silence is complicity. Come together with love in our hearts for our Creator, one other, and our Country as Americans in good Conscience for Human Rights, Life, Liberty, Justice, and The Pursuit of Happiness for all or live, and die divided on our knees. As a wise man once said, "Time for choosing".
Example:
Railroads Lobbying Profile • OpenSecrets
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summary?cycle=2022&id=M04
On April 16, 2008, PHMSA published an interim final rule in the Federal Register to revise the current requirements in the HMR applicable to the safe and secure transportation of hazardous materials transported in commerce by rail. 73 FR 20752. Specifically, PHMSA adopted the following:
Rail carriers transporting the specified hazardous materials must use the data they compile on commodities they transport to analyze the safety and security risks for the transportation routes used and all practicable alternative routes to the one used. Rail carriers must utilize these analyses to make transportation decisions that result in the transportation of these materials over the safest and most secure commercially practicable routes posing the least overall safety and security risks.
Link to full document:
Federal Register :: Rail Transportation Security
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/26/E8-27287/rail-transportation-security
Comments on the NPRM
We received more than 50 sets of comments from individuals; members of Congress; Federal, state, and local governmental entities; companies; industry associations; public interest groups; labor organizations; and a homeowners' association. Generally, large rail carriers and their associations express support for the proposals in the NPRM and, in particular, the flexibility for rail carriers to designate routes based on an analysis of safety and security vulnerabilities and measures implemented to address those vulnerabilities. Small carriers and single line haulers express some concern about the applicability of the routing provisions to their operations—in many cases, smaller rail carriers operate on a single line and routing options are limited.
Commenters representing state and local governments and environmental groups generally oppose the proposals in the NPRM. Some of these commenters suggest that the Federal government should mandate specific routing for high-hazard materials rather than provide rail carriers the discretion to make routing decisions. Others, particularly state and local government commenters, want to be able to implement routing restrictions within their jurisdictions and, thus, urge us to modify or eliminate the preemptive effect of a final rule on non-Federal jurisdictions.
The comments and public meeting transcripts in the docket for this rulemaking may be reviewed at http://www.regulations.gov under docket number PHMSA-RSPA-2004-18730. For your convenience, a listing of the docket entries is provided below.
Link to full document:
Federal Register :: Hazardous Materials: Enhancing Rail Transportation Safety and Security for Hazardous Materials Shipments
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/04/16/E8-8185/hazardous-materials-enhancing-rail-transportation-safety-and-security-for-hazardous-materials
Mistakes were NOT made
An Anthem for Justice by Margaret Anna Alice
The Armenian Genocide was not a mistake.
Holodomor was not a mistake.
The Final Solution was not a mistake.
The Great Leap Forward was not a mistake.
The Killing Fields were not a mistake.
Name a Genocide…It was not a mistake.
That inculdes The Great Democide of the 2020's.
To imply otherwise is to give them the out they are seeking.
It was not botched. It was not bungled. It was not a blunder. It was not incompetence. It was not a lack of knowledge. It was not spontaneous mass hysteria. The planning occurred in plain sight. The planning is still occurring in plain sight. The philanthropaths bought the $cience.
The modelers projected the lies. The testers concocted the crisis.
The ngo's leased the academics. The $cientists fabricated the findings.
The mouthpieces spewed the talking points. The organizations declared the emergency. The governments erected the walls. The departments rewrote the rules. The governors quashed the rights. The politicians passed the laws. The bankers installed the control grid. The stooges laundered the money. The DoD fullilled the orders. The corporations fullfilled the contracts. The regulators approved the solution. The laws shielded the contractors. The agencies ignored the signals. The behemoths consolidated the media. The psychologists crafted the messaging. The propagandists chanted the slogans. The fact chokers smeared the dissidents. The censors silenced the questioners. The jackboots stomped the dissenters. The tyrants summoned. The puppeteers jerked. The puppets danced. The colluders implemented. The doctors ordered. The hospitals administered. The menticiders scripted. The bamboozled bleated. The totalitarianized bullied. The Covidians tattled. The parents surrendered. The good citizens believed…. then forgot. This was calculated. This was formulated. This was focus-grouped. This was articulated. This was falsified. This was coerced. This was inflicted. This was denied. We were terrorized. We were isolated. We were gaslit. We were dehumanized. We were wounded. We were killed.
Don't let them get away with it.
Don't let them get away with it.
Don't let them get away with it.
I’m 5th generation Sante Fe. I can tell what history shows me, break the railroad until it becomes a good buy. folks will call you a genius maybe even an Oracle.
Max, talk less. Old black men like to be treated like king elders
Let's be honest with ourselves.
Those rail jobs are now garbage and irredeemable no matter the pay.
The union is hopelessly corrupt and in bed with management.
The best real world option is to completely automate and mechanize any and all rail jobs going forward. Better to have next generation, ground worker drones doing those dirty jobs rather than subject human beings to toil in misery.
We as a society would be much better off in the long term.
Venture capitilism explained
You should have grateful you worked in a industry with above average wages. One of the best jobs I ever had and very sad I lost the job Railroads are in a difficult situation when you consider that there competing modes of transportation, namely cars and trucks, get there right of way mostly paid for by taxpayers
I have to point out something.
The barrier to this ceaseless system of rail road work day and night is the subject.
The worker is the subject the ceaseless system is the object.
Mankind is the subject and ceaseless production of technology and science is used to reduce the resistance of the subject to the object.
The corporations (managers) make the detailed operations the workers are to do lighter and with less workers is how they break down worker resistance.
There is a social conflict between the labor-process and technology and science and an individual conflict in the subject’s personal relation to the technology and science, the objective of management…is to break the resistance of workers to a ceaseless process of transportation, distribution, circulation, production and consumption…is too important for these operations to be dependent on sale.
At the end of her life, Ayn Rand was collecting social security and welfare. Ayn Rand, opponent of both social security and welfare, was author of the incoherent, rightwing trash "novel" Atlas Shrugged.
And after his father's death, Paul Ryan received social security. Paul Ryan was a Wisconsin GOP congressman who wanted to "privatize" social security and end any public safety net for working people. Rightwing grifters love to preach "self-sufficiency" — for everyone but themselves and corporations.
R y'all stupid……don't due nothing we got this…….leave us alone and we'll take care of everything……we get what we deserve…..is it possible that some of the rail stuff is sabotage?
I come from 4 generations of rail workers. What this guy is saying is the absolute truth based on my personal experience, and from observation of my grandfathers, father and brother's careers with CSX and Norfolk Southern systems. Best decision I ever made was "Giving up my seniority April 4, 1968" and going to university on GI Bill. I would not advise my dog to get a railroad job.
WoW
Privatization is just a corporate euphemism for theft of public assets. Reversing it will require revoking the corporate charter and converting to a workers' coop economy.
Next vid….How wall st. ruined the ENTIRE EARTH!!
Y'all should read this book, telling everything about the US railroad from the beginning; "Atlas Shrugged", even if it's fictional, it is so close to the truth that just changing the names would make it a documentary.
Sounds like the Post Office. I had family that worked there for 20 years, and incrementally, it went downhill. It was all about metrics and and shaving pennies to turn profits, but ultimately the work experience of the carrier went downhill as they shouldered the burden of implementing changes.
Worked for the Maitenance of Way (2nd largest railroad in the US) in the 80's and 90's:
Unfortunately, you are right on when you use the word sociopath in describing railroad "management".
In the glorious days of the monarchies the sewage of the royalty was thrown out of the windows into the streets below.
A shame how they treat the workers and no clean up off the railroads.