Originally Posted by 20Fathoms

This. I have a close family member who is an engineer at one of the major railroads. The changes really were atrocious. It basically went from “call out sick if you need to, you’ll just lose the pay for the trip” to “call out sick and you’re fired.” As I understand it, that was the main catalyst for the NMB to actually declare an impasse and allow the process to move forward.