The sticking point between railroads and rail worker unions over a federal hotline for reporting safety concerns is how to ensure rail employees don’t misuse the system to avoid discipline, the head of the railroads’ trade group said in a letter Thursday to government officials.
The impasse is over how the confidential close call reporting system (C3RS) should handle situations in which an employee makes repeat calls over a “known event” — one in which a railroad might be already aware of a...
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