I read through the article and it has no information.<p>While I am in complete solidarity with the workers and think the workers should come before the shareholders, this article is just leveraging the disaster to reiterate the old talking points. Overworked workers might be the root cause, but they are not the proximate cause for this event.
I understand it is not that simple, but it is workers duty to stop working if it is dangerous. Specially given that they seem to be organized in a union. If it is an important railroad, stopping work could be used as a lever to hire more workers or fix machines, etc.
I do not know, may be it depends on country and law and may be US is not one of such countries where workers can't be fired for stopping work if it is dangerous. But still, workers should demand, they know what no one else knows.<p>Givernment regulations make govt big and I'm not sure it is better than allowing workers more management and decission making. But again, the workers should want to participate.<p>May be this railroad employ immigrants who do not have all the rights and afraid of loosing the job and so.. not sure how then this can be solved. May be then local population where the road is located should somehow be more curious what is going on there and talk more to workers, but without relying on some politicians for this because it is easy to buy one person.
> And he does believe that the lack of a labor perspective in the reporting out of these kinds of industrial accidents leaves the public in the dark about just how dangerous and stressful railroading has become<p>While the acute response and understanding/limiting of risk is happening, the only perspective I need from the train workers is an accurate accounting of who and what was on the train that needs rescuing/safing.<p>After that, when we do the root cause analysis, that’s when we need the perspective and opinion of the workers and their union.<p>It is genuinely important; it’s not that important <i>right this second</i>. Whatever was wrong in labor policies will still be wrong next month when we dig into that.