You know things are going well when your governing bodies have to ask pretty please can we regulate you pleeeeease??? 🥺
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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And 5 out of the 6 companies say no and the government shrugs and says ‘I tried’.
Not just shrugs, joyously BOASTD that its feeble attempts were a resounding victory! 🤦
Wait, how can a company "let" their workers use an anonymous government safety tip line? Like. That's not how anonymity works. And they're saying only specific engineers and conductors use it from specific unions at specific places??
The fuck.
This is too on the nose. Like, we all know billionaires hold all the power in our country, but to have them brush aside governmental regulation attempts so... casually...
It's like we can't even have a veneer of a functioning democracy anymore.
While unions support anonymous reporting as important for safety, railroads have resisted by arguing their own internal reporting is sufficient and anonymous reporting could be abused.
Wow. Their ‘breakthrough’ was an anonymous phone number they had to urge them to use… and not mandated to make available? Uh huh.
I think the Point of anonymous is not needing permission?