Matt Weaver

Matt Weaver

In my career – I’ve been on the railroad for 28 years – The business model of Precision Scheduled Railroading, PSR, is decimating the manpower. We’re down as much as 30% over the last 10 years in manpower of rail labor. So I see that it’s deferred maintenance. It’s often the bandaid on a broken leg style of repair, and that’s kind of scary. We have a right to speak up, and there are whistleblower protections and good faith challenges to things, but there’s been a lot of retaliation on rail workers, rail labor, that we have our own law, CFR 20109, whistleblower retaliation on railroads. I’ve actually had a case. So people are afraid to speak up because of things like this.
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Matt Weaver

Matt Weaver
In my career – I’ve been on the railroad for 28 years – The business model of Precision Scheduled Railroading, PSR, is decimating the manpower. We’re down as much as 30% over the last 10 years in manpower of rail labor. So I see that it’s deferred maintenance. It’s often the bandaid on a broken leg style of repair, and that’s kind of scary. We have a right to speak up, and there are whistleblower protections and good faith challenges to things, but there’s been a lot of retaliation on rail workers, rail labor, that we have our own law, CFR 20109, whistleblower retaliation on railroads. I’ve actually had a case. So people are afraid to speak up because of things like this.
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