Re: Airplanes falling out of the sky

[jonathan flanders <jon_flanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<All these problems are related to "deregulation", a policy that has been
applied across the board to the trucking, railroad and airline industry. It
has produced harried operator and maintenance crews.>

Famous last words...."It'll make another trip." Well, in the railroad
industry they don't fall out of the sky.  But you might get visited at
home, as one family recently discovered, when they lost a son, trapped in a
crushed house by an errant CSX train.

Post Conrail/CSX/NS takeover Norfolk Southern just announced the layoff of
550 track workers due to merger related losses. So it goes.

While the deregulated corporations make merry with mergers and takeovers,
the Railway Labor Act continues to insure that both airline and railroad
workers right to strike is regulated into virtual illegality if the
government determines that a job action threatens the "national interest."

Jon Flanders