• bluGill@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What I don’t get is why he has any power at all. This isn’t war time, tell the two sides to work it out without violence. The truck industry will be happy to take more business from them.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Railroad companies are a little special. The US government has nationalized the railways before, specifically in both world wars, so the government has been involved in their operation as critical infrastructure for over a century. And they still exert some of that influence in peacetime, in case war were declared.