Long’s letter was written based on reports from workers who were at the scene of the derailment.
COLUMBIANA COUNTY, Ohio - A letter written by a rail worker union representative addressed to Governor Mike DeWine is requesting DeWine use his influence as governor to stop what the representative calls “reckless business practices” by Norfolk-Southern following the Feb. 3 toxic train derailment in East Palestine.
In a letter written on behalf of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division , Johnathon Long explains that he is a Norfolk Southern Railway Maintenance of Way worker who represents nearly 3,000 employees on Norfolk-Southern railways.NS instructed approximately 40 of its Maintenance of Way Employees to come on site and begin cleaning up the wreckage.
When some of the NS Workers inquired about the appropriateness of their personal protective equipment and the safety of their working conditions, they would receive little or no response from NS officials.
With this ongoing in East Palestine, I received numerous inquiries from the Workers I represent, and I was pressing NS for answers to legitimate questions of those concerned Employees. At the same time, I was engaging with NS as General Chairman of the ARSF. During these discussions, NS representatives raised the prospect of reaching an agreement on paid sick leave. We had been in negotiations over paid sick leave for some time now, but those negotiations were going nowhere.
As part of NS’s experimental automated track inspection program, it would reduce the performance of visual human inspections following behind the automated machines, checking and ensuring their accuracy and checking for defects the machines cannot detect. Current FRA regulations require that railroad tracks be inspected by a qualified human track inspector, who is highly trained and qualified to perform such inspection.
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