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The Revolution Will Be On Rail, Part I

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 06/20/2016 - 15:51

By Matt Stannard - Occupy.Com, June 14, 2016 (image by Jon Flanders)

Trains have the ability to move America into a post-carbon economy with fewer cars, cleaner air and stronger communities. But railroad bosses are telling their workers they have to support more oil and coal extraction, and faster, more dangerous train routes in order to keep their jobs.

John Paul Wright is concerned about this contradiction. The husband and father is a locomotive engineer, union and labor organizer, and a singer of protest songs. As the national lead organizer for [Railroad Workers United] and a member of the organization’s steering committee, part of his job is bringing together railroad unions who’ve been told by the bosses that they have incompatible views and interests. “This is the very nature of big business craft unionism,” he tells me. “The workers are caught in the middle.”

Wright says that “the railroad could be the most efficient way to move anything we move today. But we’ve been sold on an economy that doesn’t represent our best interests.”

Part of our job as storytellers and advocates for a new economy is to articulate how the interests of working people converge with those of a healthy and just planet. Trains are a crucial part of that picture. “The railroads built the small towns, passenger service was the transportation policy before cars,” Wright says, “and small farming communities had access to larger markets.”

But now, the trains and often the land on which they travel are owned by big corporations. “So us workers are forced to move whatever America wants. We move coal, oil, products from sweatshops overseas, fertilizer, plastics, etc,” he says. All because corporate capitalism “sees no profit in a transportation policy built on service and access.”

This isn’t just the market following around people’s preferences like a faithful dog. The story of the decline of public transportation and railways is one of criminal manipulation by capitalists, not honest brokering. In the first half of the 20th century, a group of executives colluded to buy and literally dismantle the electric train systems in many of America’s major cities in order to artificially create a market for oil, cars, trucks and eventually an interstate system.

America’s public transit was like a Library of Alexandria for the United States: if it had survived and been regularly upgraded, we’d have quite a system today, one that would likely be transitioning to completely renewable power, as smaller nations are in the process of doing.

The potential ecological and socioeconomic benefits of rail are overwhelming. For transport of goods, trains are four times more fuel efficient than trucks. They also reduce highway gridlock, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce pollution. For personal travel, trains emit on average between 80 and 90 percent less carbon output than airplanes per passenger.

Although some trains still run on diesel and oil, and a growing number of cars are hybrid or totally electric, trains could make the jump forward by going totally renewable, as they have in other countries. And a well-planned and executed mass transit system could make travel virtually free, replacing vehicles that are expensive to buy and maintain.

As usual it comes down to who makes the decisions: citizens and railway workers, or corporate shareholders and bosses. The corporations are in control now, and the results are unsafe trains that are about to become even less safe due to labor-saving proposals to decrease crew members; trains speeding through ecologically sensitive areas carrying lethal crude oil and frequently causing spills and explosions; and a passenger transit system that doesn’t come close to living up to its efficiency potential. Contrary to what the railway bosses are telling workers and the public, these issues are interrelated and must be part of an agenda for economic and ecological justice.

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Railroad Workers United Former Co-Chair and Organizer Mark Burrows Speaks at Chicago Break Free Rally

Submitted by x344543 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 18:50

On Sunday, May 15th in Whiting, Indiana, former RWU Co-Chair Mark Burrows was invited to speak to a group of community members and environmental activists about rail safety. Mark touched on the Lac Megantic tragedy and frame-up of railroad workers in Canada, crew fatigue and single employee train crews.

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Appeal from Railroad Workers United: No Single Employee Crews!

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 05/30/2016 - 08:31

Public Comment Period Extended to June 15th at 11:59 PM EDT

Tell the FRA:

"No Single Employee Train Crews!"

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Dear RWU Members & Supporters:

On March 15th, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) offricially announced a Proposed Rule on the whole question of crew staffing for trains in the United States. After careful consideration, RWU has come to the only conclusion possible: the Proposed Rule provides a road map for any and all rail carriers to obtain the FRA's blessing to run trains with a single employee. Therefore, RWU cannot support this Proposed Rule, period.

We continue to agree with the joint statement from nearly 7 years ago that the BLET and the UTU made in a joint Petition filed in June 2009 with the FRA on the question of traincrew staffing which reads: “No conditions exist where one-person operations are safe.” And since the Proposed Rule is predicated on the "safe" operation of trains with a single crew member, we must urge the FRA to promulgate a Rule that outlaws the practice. We urge all RWU members and all railroad workers to contact the FRA and tell them in plain language: "No single employee train crews!"

To write/FAX the FRA, click HERE.
To email the FRA, click HERE.
To view the RWU Letter to the FRA on the Proposed Rule, click HERE.
To view the FRA Proposed Rule, Click HERE.
To view the RWU Editorial on the Proposed Rule Click HERE.
To view a comprehensive article entitled "What's Wrong with Single Employee Train Operations?" with 21 reasons why they are unsafe and unworkable, click HERE.
To view the most recent RWU Resolution to Oppose Single Employe Operating Crews from March 2nd, 2015, see below or click HERE.
To view the original RWU Resolution on Single Employee Train crews from January 5th, 2010, click HERE

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A Just Transition: Break Free

Submitted by x344543 on Wed, 05/18/2016 - 19:38

By John Paul Wright - RailroadMusic.Org, May 17, 2016

There is a suggestion called a Just Transition that is floating around parts of the labor and environmental communities. To fully understand this term, we as workers, community members, union members and activists would need to explore,

What we used to have.
When and how we transitioned historically.
Where we want to go.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson, shortly after the Louisiana Purchase, commissioned a U.S Army expedition called the Corps of Discovery. The task was to map and claim the west before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it. Part of the mission was to find a water transportation route to the Pacific Ocean. In 1805, the Lewis and Clark expedition set sight on the Pacific Ocean. After finding no direct water route, they returned to St Louis in 1806. it took industry and the U.S Government sixty-four years after Lewis and Clark returned, to connect the nation by rail, from sea to shining sea.

In 1869, Leland Stanford, railroad baron and co-founder of Stanford University, drove the “golden spike” that connected the rails of the first transcontinental railroad. The railroad spike sits in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Before the spike was driven into the ceremonial railroad cross tie at Promontory Point, Utah, the United States had not yet been connected, ocean to ocean with a transportation policy.

As the railroad companies grew and people moved at speeds never before traveled across land, small communities were rapidly becoming connected to larger markets. Farming communities had access to rail transportation and industries popped up in the railroad towns. In 1913, Ford starts mass production on his first assembly line. On June 29^th, 1956, the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act was enacted. It took industry 43 years to get a policy in place, that would give the automobile industry the green light to further transition this country from rail transportation of people, to personally owned vehicles.

The trucking industry was born, the railroad transitioned from steam to diesel fueled locomotives. The movement of industrial commodities replaced the passengers that were owning personal transportation. The nation’s population rapidly grew with the workers needed to build these new innovations and dreams. New industries were created with investment and taxation. The nation was more, so called secure, or was in a better position militarily, hence the name of the government policy that created the nation’s highway system.

Of course, this is a broad over simplification of many ideas, policies, historical facts and timelines. There were many other policies that were discussed and pitched. There were many laws, taxes and industrial failures and successes, as well as, iconic brands, dreams and ways of life that were transitioned or simply disappeared as one industry won favor over another.

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Carbon Bubble News #104

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 05/16/2016 - 19:28

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 17, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

Why Is Coal Suddenly Becoming A Major Talking Point In The Presidential Election? - By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog, May 14, 2016
Higher prices provide little relief for drillers - Bloomberg, FuelFix, May 13, 2016
Global oil and gas job losses: 350,000 and counting - By James Burgess, UPI, May 12, 2016
Pension holders petition funds on Exxon, Chevron climate resolutions - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, May 11, 2016
Big Oil Abandons $2.5 Billion in U.S. Arctic Drilling Rights - By Jennifer A Dlouhy, Bloomberg, May 9, 2016; [related]: Pressure Mounts on Obama As Big Oil Abandons the Arctic - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, May 10, 2016; [and]: The Oil Industry Just Backed Out Of A Multi-Billion Dollar Investment - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, May 10, 2016
Oil majors told to adapt or die - By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network, May 9, 2016

Other Carbon Bubble News:

Exxon Faces Questions Over Climate As Gates Dumps BP - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, May 13, 2016
Natural gas prices fall on lackluster demant - Bloomberg, FuelFix, May 13, 2016
Oil drillers find 10 more rigs to idle - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, May 13, 2016
South African mining production plummets 18% - By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, May 13, 2016
Colstrip power-plant owner: Losing money, and the future is not bright - By Mike Dennison, KXLH 9 TV, May 12, 2016
Risky bet: Does divestment slow or speed green growth? - By Ed King, Climate Change News, May 12, 2016
Has oil industry hit its mid-life crisis? - By Lydia Depillis, FuelFix, May 11, 2016
Japan risks wasting US$56bn in new coal-fired power stations - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, May 11, 2016; [related] Expansion Of Japan’s Coal Fleet Could Strand $56 Billion - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, May 13, 2016
Linn Energy to restructure, file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, May 11, 2016
The Plan To Revive Big Coal’s Fortunes Isn’t Panning Out - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, May 11, 2016
West Virginia Democrats Just Nominated A Climate Denying Coal Baron Billionaire For Governor - By Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress, May 11, 2016
Election Day in coal country: A race to nowhere? - By Ken Ward Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail, May 10, 2016
Trump Cannot Bring Back Coal - By Evan Lehmann, Scientific American, May 10, 2016
India Wants To Kick Its Dirty Coal Habit - By Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress, May 9, 2016
Oil bankruptcies rack up as banks cut credit lines - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, May 9, 2016

Utility Death Spiral News:

Debunking 4 Myths About The Clean Energy Transition: Part 1: The “Duck Curve” | Part 2: Excess Generation | Part 3: Renewable Costs | Part 4: Carbon Emissions - By Robbie Orvis, Michael O’Boyle, and Hallie Kennan, Clean Technica, May 13-16, 2016
Hawaii solar jobs fall 35% after regulators end retail net metering - By Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, May 13, 2016

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Power Failure: Appalachia Plans for Life Beyond Coal

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 05/15/2016 - 11:51

By Keith Griffith - Equal Voice News, May 3, 2016

Harlan County, Kentucky -- On his first shift in the coal mine, Brandon Farley closed his eyes to steady his nerves as the powered cart he was riding disappeared into the mountainside. A third-generation coal miner in this Appalachian corner of Eastern Kentucky, Farley began working in the mines right out of high school and kept at it for 15 years, until he was laid off in late February.

Farley, now 32 and a married father of two, worked his way up in the Appalachian coal mines to a job as an underground electrician, running the high voltage cables that power heavy, specialized equipment at the mining face. Mining is the only work he knows.

In 2010, Farley was working at the Abner Branch mine when the roof collapsed, killing his friend Travis Brock, who was 29. Farley escaped serious injury in his own years as a miner, but his hands bear a miscellany of scars from minor accidents.

"The juice is worth the squeeze," he says, glancing at his palms with a chuckle. "I never did look at the dangers as much as I did the money."

The money, for a while, was very good. Farley was making $25 an hour in the mines. With plenty of overtime -- Farley often worked 60-hour weeks -- experienced miners like him routinely made $80,000 to $100,000 a year. In Harlan County, which has about 28,000 residents, the median household income is $25,000.

Over 50 years ago, in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson toured Appalachia to kick off his "War on Poverty." Harlan County's poverty rate, which tracks roughly with the region's, was then 55 percent. It remains more than double the national average, at 32 percent, although those numbers typically don't account for government transfer payments, such as Social Security, safety net and veterans' benefits. (In 2014, Eastern Kentucky received $13.4 billion in government entitlements, making up more than a third of the region's income.)

Though it's long been a region of economic hardship, Appalachian Kentucky now faces a crisis of alarming proportions. Since the end of 2008, the region has lost more than 10,000 coal mining jobs, a decline of more than two-thirds. Kentucky's coal production is now at its lowest level since 1954, according to the state government. Other coal mining regions have been hit by the national decline in coal production, but none as hard as this one.

Locally, the collapse of coal is often blamed on President Barack Obama and environmental safeguards, which some residents say are needed to protect water, air and families. "This all began when Obama started his 'war on coal' -- and he did," says Farley, the laid-off miner. "If they are gonna do away with coal, why not put

Experts believe that the coal industry's decline in Kentucky has more to do with the abundance of cheap natural gas and drastically cheaper coal from surface mines in Wyoming. Regardless, there is a growing sense in Harlan County that coal isn't coming back.

After his latest layoff, Farley is now reluctantly looking for other kinds of work. "That's all we ever done is mine coal, though," he says. "It's the best job I ever had."

Farley finds the prospect of taking a significantly lower-paying job unpalatable, though even finding one is a challenge. After getting career counseling from the Harlan County Community Action Agency, Farley applied for work with railroad shipper CSX. But coal makes up the bulk of CSX's shipping business, and the company announced new rounds of layoffs the week that Farley applied.

"It's strange to hear the lonesome horn of a train anymore," says HCCAA Executive Director Donna Pace. "Used to be, that's all you heard."

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Carbon Bubble News #103

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 05/08/2016 - 15:12

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 9, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

No Matter What Trump Says, Coal Mining Jobs Are Not Returning To West Virginia - By Tim Worstall, Forbes, May 5, 2016; [related]: Donald Trump Says He’ll Bring Back Jobs For Coal Miners But He’s Just Blowing Smoke - By Joe Romm, Think Progress, May 4, 2016
Major Milestone: More than 100,000 MW Worth of Coal-Fired Power Plants Retired - By Sierra Club , EcoWatch, May 4, 2016; [related]: Dynegy's retirement of coal units marks 100 GW of US coal shuttered since 2010 - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, May 5, 2016
Oil collapse most brutal in history for drillers, energy researcher says - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, May 4, 2016
U.S. oil industry bankruptcy wave nears size of telecom bust - By Ernest Scheyder and Terry Wade, Reuters, May 4, 2016
Listen To U.S. Coal Production Fall Off A Cliff - By Jordan Wirfs-Brock, Inside Energy, May 3, 2016
Mapped: The global coal trade - By various, Carbon Brief, May 3, 2016

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Carbon Bubble News #102

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 12:10

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 3, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

The Beginning of the End of the Old Oil Order - By Michael Klare, TomDispatch, April 28, 2016
Has the time arrived to transition away from fossil fuels? - By Fereidoon Sioshansi, REnew Economy, April 26, 2016
Saudi Arabia Pledges to Break “Dangerous Addiction to Oil” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, April 26, 2016
Middle East economies take hit from low oil prices - Associated Press, Fuel Fix, April 25, 2016
We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It? - By Nafeez Ahmed, Alternet, April 22, 2016

Other Carbon Bubble News:

Chevron increases planned job cuts to 8,000 - By Collin Eaton, Fuel Fix, April 29, 2016; [related] Chevron posts a wider-than-expected loss - Bloomberg, Fuel Fix, April 29, 2016
Exxon posts smallest profit since 1999 - Bloomberg, Fuel Fix, April 29, 2016
Oil rally on “thin ice,” echoes short-lived 2015 price jump - Bloomberg, Fuel Fix, April 29, 2016
Refining's silver lining loses luster at Exxon and Chevron - By Ernest Scheyder, Reuters, April 29, 2016
This Chart Will Warm Your Heart If You Want America To Use Less Coal - By Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress, April 29, 2016
U.S. Coal Use Falls 29 Percent - By Climate Nexus, EcoWatch, April 29, 2016
U.S. oil rig count falls by more than 3 percent in a week - By Jordan Blum, Fuel Fix, April 29, 2016
ConocoPhillips cuts spending further, posts loss - Bloomberg, Fuel Fix, April 28, 2016
National Oilwell Varco cuts 6,000 jobs, closes 200 facilities - By Collin Eaton, Fuel Fix, April 28, 2016
Can we learn from Europe’s approach to laid-off coal miners? - By Joshua Zaffos, High Country News, April 27, 2016
Coal downturn hits railroads hard - By Elizabeth Shogren, High Country News, April 27, 2016
Federal panel kills Tongue River Railroad - By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette, April 27, 2016
Jim Justice doubles down on climate change denial - By Ken Ward Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail, April 27, 2016
“We have gained money from not investing in fossil fuels” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, April 27, 2016
Why China (really) is losing its appetite for coal - By Clayton Aldern, Grist, April 27, 2016
Daily Dispatch: Saudi Arabia plots life after oil - By Joe Sandler Clarke, Greenpeace Energy Desk, April 26, 2016
Exxon Mobil Loses Top Credit Rating - Bloomberg, Fuel Fix, April 26, 2016
Steel fight is not won yet by a long way - Editorial, Socialist Worker (UK), April 26, 2016
Wave of fury offshore as work stops on rigs - By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), April 26, 2016
Aberthaw power station to downgrade operations - By Steffan Messenger, BBC, April 25, 2016
Coal Communities Consider Life After Layoffs - By Leigh Paterson, Wyoming Public Media, April 25, 2016
Freeport axes oil and gas workforce as it posts sixth straight loss - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, April 25, 2016
Jim Justice dodges hard truth about coal’s decline - By Ken Ward Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail, April 25, 2016
Oil falls from 5-month high - Bloomberg, Fuel Fix, April 25, 2016
Address by Zwelinzima Vavi to the NUMSA National Bargaining Conference - By Zwelinzima Vavi, NUMSA, April 23, 2016
One UK steel town, one crisis that affects the nation - By staff, Associated Press, April 22, 2016

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Carbon Bubble News #100

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 04/18/2016 - 17:43

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 19, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

Analysts blame natural gas, not 'war on coal,' for Peabody's demise - By Benjamin Hulac, E&E Publishing, April 14, 2016
Analysis: UK solar generation tops coal for the first time - By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, April 13, 2016
'The Biggest Coal Giant Has Fallen': Peabody Files for Bankruptcy - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, April 13, 2016
Can Wyoming's Biggest Coal Town Create a New Future? - By Brittany Patterson, Scientific American, April 13, 2016; [related] Wyoming Searches for the Technology to Save Coal - By Brittany Patterson, Scientific American, April 14, 2016
World’s Largest Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy - By Climate Nexus, EcoWatch, April 13, 2016
As coal company profits fell, mining firms rewarded executives handsomely - By Benjamin Storrow, Caspar Star-Tribine, April 11, 2016

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Carbon Bubble News #98

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 04/03/2016 - 20:17

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 4, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

Black Thursday: Layoffs hit 500 Wyoming coal miners - By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile, March 31, 2016
Steel crisis: we need urgent action to save tens of thousands of jobs - By Charlie Kimber, Socialist Worker (UK), March 30, 2016
Excuse me — do you know where my Appalachia is? - By Eve Andrews, Grist, March 29, 2016

Other Carbon Bubble News:

Texas leads the way in another rig count drop - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, April 1, 2016
BNSF furloughs have hit 4,600 employees nationwide - By Max B. Baker, Forth Worth Star Telegram, March 31, 2016
Devon Energy to close Houston area office, cut about 60 jobs - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, March 31, 2016
Maersk Oil to close Houston office, cut remaining local jobs - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, March 31, 2016
Oil bust claims another 1,100 jobs across Texas - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, March 29, 2016
Peabody Lifeline Vanishing as Bowie Loan Deal Said to Be Dropped - By Michelle Davis, MichelleF_Davis, Jodi Xu Klein, Bloomberg, March 29, 2016
U.S. Lifted The Crude Oil Export Ban, And Exports Went…Down - By Charles Kennedy, OilPrice.com, March 29, 2016
Yellen: Another oil price drop could spill over into global economy - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, March 29, 2016
Electric Vehicles Will Deflate Demand For Oil - By Andreas de Vries and Salman Ghouri, Energy Post, March 28, 2016

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The Revolution Will Be On Rail, Part I

Railroad Workers United Former Co-Chair and Organizer Mark Burrows Speaks at Chicago Break Free Rally

Appeal from Railroad Workers United: No Single Employee Crews!

Tell the FRA:

"No Single Employee Train Crews!"

Email Your Message today!

A Just Transition: Break Free

Carbon Bubble News #104

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