SolutionaryRail

Our brand new fourth episode walks you through the wild consequences, for better and for worse, of the peculiar U.S. insistence on private ownership of the critical national infrastructure called railroads. Click here to listen on your favorite platform: solutionaryrail.org/podcastepisode4

Railroad deregulation was supposed to preserve reliable and competitive freight service for businesses and communities. But a poorly constructed regulatory mandate has allowed that promise to be broken. Here's how shippers are trying to fix that: solutionaryrail.org/podcastintervi…

Our conversation with Emily Regis explores the power imbalance faced by businesses that depend on railroads to move their freight, the difficulty of getting help from regulators, and the dangers of further consolidation. Listen at: solutionaryrail.org/podcastintervi…

1. @openmarkets just filed an amicus brief in Trump v. Slaughter on whether the President has constitutional power to remove executive and administrative heads at will. We argue emphatically no. Thank you to @jamietryhard for serving as our counsel of record!

Leaked email and White House coercion dominate Senate confirmation hearing. open.substack.com/pub/solutionar…

URGENT: Contact Senate Commerce Committee Members BEFORE this Thursday 11/06. DEMAND: NO CONFIRMATIONS & NO STB PROCEEDINGS until STB independent adjudicatory power is restored with reseating of Robert Primus. Don't let UP bribe their way to merger w/NS. solutionaryrail.substack.com/p/urgent-conta…

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Leaked email from STB Chair makes it clear that now is the time to strengthen and defend the independence of the Surface Transportation Board and refuse Trump Admin meddling. 1st step: Reinstate Robert Primus who was illegally removed. Take action today. solutionaryrail.substack.com/p/it-is-time-t…

@atrupar Insane, unhinged, dangerous

Stephen Miller: “We are going to channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks … The organized doxxing campaigns. The organized riots. The organized street violence. The organized of dehumanization. Vilification. Posting people’s addresses. Combining that with messaging designed to trigger and incite violence and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence. It is a vast domestic terror movement. With God and as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks, and make America safe again for the American people. It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

Trucks inflict 8x greater costs on the public than rail. Freight transportation policy must prioritize a modeshift from truck to rail. Listen to founder and CEO of Hum Industrial Technology Byron Porter at: solutionaryrail.org/podcastintervi…

A broken rate review process reinforces Class I railroads’ monopoly power over shippers. This hinders reindustrialization, forces freight onto trucks, and raises costs for consumers and the public. Listen at: solutionaryrail.org/podcastintervi…

Merging won’t make railroads competitive with trucking. Wall Street’s railroads have prioritized profit over growth for decades. The UP-NS deal only perpetuates that model. Listen to founder and CEO of Hum Industrial Technology Byron Porter at: solutionaryrail.org/podcastintervi…

Railroad mergers pit labor unions against each other with false promises. The only way forward is a united labor voice. Listen to @railroadworkers Co-founder and Trustee Ron Kaminkow at: ow.ly/7ZBT50WXbiF

RWU is hosting a town hall for railroad workers to discuss the proposed merger on Tuesday September 23rd at 6 pm central. RSVP at the link below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Railroads do need to grow their traffic, but that’s not the real purpose behind the UP-NS merger. Listen to @railroadworkers Co-founder and Trustee Ron Kaminkow at: ow.ly/cPkR50WXb3R

Railroads once competed with each other on the quality of their service. As the industry consolidated, shippers became captive, and those standards of service went out the window. Listen to Railroad Workers United Co-founder and Trustee Ron Kaminkow at: ow.ly/bTRZ50WVt8H

Corporations used to be regulated to balance profits with public interests. Over the last 50 years, those regulations have been decimated, leaving the public with little recourse. Check out our full conversation with former Congressman Peter DeFazio at: ow.ly/kSlx50WTti6

Class I railroads’ practices have boosted stock prices, at the expense of workers, safety, and service. What is working for Wall Street is a disaster for Main Street. Check out our full conversation with former Congressman Peter DeFazio at: ow.ly/rzkR50WTsVl

As former Congressman Peter DeFazio explained in our Reconnect America conversation, workers are left in unsafe conditions and communities face greater risks. Listen to the episode here: solutionaryrail.org/podcastintervi…