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Corporate Crime & Class War: The Ohio Train Derailment

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The Supply Chain of the Rail Industry in the United States

The railroads had instituted a scheduling policy for their workforce that essentially left workers completely overwhelmed by just the magnitude of the work. They don't get time off, they weren't getting paid enough really to even justify the amount of time that they were working. Each train and each crew across the cross was experiencing skeleton crews. A work stoppage on the rail industry would grind this country's economy to a halt.

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