The Department of
Communications recently received a criticism from a
Burlington Northern System Federation Local Chairman for
wasting a Journal page on labor history. He said
members would like to see more about the 1990s; the
realities of life on the railroad today including safety
problems and rules being violated instead of labor
history.
While we agree with him that the issues he notes are of
the utmost importance and interest to our members, we
believe there is also a place for labor history. The
struggles of our brothers and sisters before us are
lessons we can learn from in our struggles today in 1997.
It may be a cliche, but history does tend to repeat
itself. The corporate greed of more than a hundred years
ago may be called by different names but it is the same
as corporate greed today. And American workers today are
still locked in a battle with the forces of that
corporate greed as they were a hundred years ago.
We're interested in your opinion. Please contact--write,
phone, fax, e-mail--us and tell us yes or no to labor
history. And while you're at it, let us know what else
you do and don't like in the Journal and what
you would like to read about in the Journal. |