Supply chain update
The SMART Transportation division, the union representing railroad conductors, announced that negotiations over new contract has until 12/8/22 deadline to avoid potential nationwide strike, which would disrupt supply chain across the U.S.
- “It is about attendance policies, sick time, fatigue, and the lack of family time. A lot of these things that cannot be seen but are felt by our membership. It is destroying their livelihoods”; stated Jared Cassity
of SMART. - The current contract offer includes a 24% pay increase by 2024
- “what a terrible Christmas gift that would be to give to the American people at this point...right before Christmas, shutting down our supply chain”; stated US Congressman Rick Crawford of Arkansas.
- A single railcar can contain 2,000 UPS packages, tens of thousands of bananas or hundreds of flat screen TVs