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Railroad Worker Jen Wallis On Health And Safety, Rail Labor, One Man Crews And Warren Buffet
Video by the Labor Video Project - Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, July 19, 2014
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Jen Wallis is a railroad worker and health and safety advocate who was injured and blew the whistle on the Warren Buffet owned railroad BNSF. She is a member of IBT BLET Division 238 and Railroad Workers United RWU who works in the Seattle area.
She discusses her injury and the systemic attack on workers health and safety by the railroad and how this threatens the community and public due to dangerous oil cars and lack of proper manning. This includes systemic retaliation, workplace bullying and intimidation for workers who fight for health and safety on the railroads She also discusses the role of some union officials in pushing 1 man crews even though these labor reductions are serious threats to the safety of the railroad workers and the communities that railroads travel through. This presentation was made in San Francisco on July 19, 2014 at a conference of the Injured Workers National Network.
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