Capitalism seeks ever new ways to drive down wages in the capitalist class’ pursuit of ever increasing wages. But their profits also depend on their businesses delivering. The entirety of American business depends on your rail lines running. The bosses don’t run the trains themselves. We do!

The government has shown that it does not have your back; instead, they side with your bosses because it is more important to keep business as usual than allow you to live your lives. But they don’t provide you with a life worth living at all!

Follow the example of Ontario education workers. Their government, just like ours, has once again shirked their so-called responsibility to us as citizens and sided with the employers, all to maintain profits at the expense of working peoples’ livelihoods. The Ontario educators refused to sit down while the Canadian government steamrolled their freedom to strike.

We must stand together, rail workers of all crafts, and even those employed outside of the railway industry! In dividing us by craft, our bosses are able to push us down individually.

Our strength comes from our unity.

The only solution in front of us is to strike anyway. The union leaderships may have their hands tied, but we do not!

We must not stand idly by while our right to collectively bargain is stripped from us.

We should carry this onward, expanding this struggle into ever larger and more organized struggles. Don’t wait for the leadership to do it for us, or it may already be too late!

Connect with Longshore workers! Truckers! Those working in warehouses!

Work toward building a united front of class unions – a unified network of all the rank and file organizations employed in the supply chain – so that we can put a halt to their bottom lines!

The capitalist system needs us, but we don’t need them!