Jason T. Doering
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Engineer | @BLET | Nevada #HSR Authority | Advocate for #RailSafety & #RailLabor | #GoGriz
Las Vegas, NV
Joined November 2014
Last year, @iamjohnoliver pulled back the curtain on the rail industry’s dark side under #PSR and deregulation, with a sharp nod to the grittier days of Thomas the Tank Engine. Watch him dismantle the industry's failings on @LastWeekTonight. 🚂
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From the locomotive cab to the Nevada communities we roll through, #RailSafety is lived, not theorized. We appreciate the bipartisan push to bring the Railway Safety Act back. Rail labor has been clear: stronger safeguards matter. @SenCortezMasto @SenJackyRosen
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) National Division today applauded the bipartisan reintroduction of the Railway Safety Act (RSA) in the United States Senate. Read more: https://t.co/6APhYJ2bJk
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When trains derail, fire fighters are expected to make split-second decisions – often without the real-time information about the hazards onboard. The Railway Safety Act would change that. https://t.co/MjiXwugPSa
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A California congressman is calling for more railroad oversight. It comes on the three-year anniversary of one of the nation's most destructive railway accidents and just a day after a derailment in...
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The NTSB didn’t conclude that regulation was unnecessary.. it concluded that technology alone is not safety absent standards, thresholds, & operational responses that prioritize prevention over throughput. What’s missing from this analysis is incentive. Wayside detectors didn’t
In 2024, I explained why the eight main provisions of the Railway Safety Act would neither advance rail safety nor have prevented the East Palestine derailment, based on findings from the NTSB final report:
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This gang of lobbyists & free market cheerleaders wants Congress to bury real #railsafety where no one ever has to vote on it.. not because prices would rise, but because Wall Street demands the #PSR model stay untouched. Fighting basic safety standards to protect margins is why
A coalition led by @ceidotorg is urging Congress to reject new freight rail mandates in surface transportation reauthorization. The warning: prescriptive rail rules could raise costs, limit innovation, and increase prices for consumers — without clear safety gains. Smart,
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East Palestine wasn’t an accident so much as the predictable result of a system that learned to ignore the people closest to the work. Rail workers warned what happens when trains get longer, crews get thinner, inspections get shorter, & judgment is replaced by metrics that look
BLET National President Mark Wallace issued a statement statement today on the three-year anniversary of the East Palestine derailment and the need for Congress to pass rail safety legislation. Read it here: https://t.co/LYavifdbz8
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The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien; Mark Wallace, President of the Teamsters Rail Conference and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET); and Tony Cardwell, President of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
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Labor loses its power not when it is defeated, but when it endorses the structure that defeats it..
BLET, BMWED to oppose the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger. Read the full joint statement at on the BLET website: https://t.co/ej1bloWn6z
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𝟏𝟐𝟒 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠... The time for talk is over. 🤐 Narrated by @bergen_junior
#GoGriz
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As Ranking Member of @TransportDems Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, I am honoring Rail Safety Week by supporting commonsense proposals like the two-person crew rule. I’ll continue to push for rail safety provisions in the Surface Transportation
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If @LIRR stops, it will not be because of labor. It will be because capital chose pride over reason, blind to the truth that without workers, a railroad is nothing but steel on the ground.
The Long Island Rail Road could shut down Thursday. Three out of the five unions with over 3,000 LIRR workers have already voted to walk off the job at 12:01 p.m. Thursday if there's no deal. And the biggest union at the railroad is conducting a strike vote today.
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It takes a special kind of ignorance to look at a three-mile freight train carrying chlorine, crude oil, and ammonia and decide the problem is that there are too many people in the cab.. He calls two crew members union inflation, as if keeping children from choking on toxic smoke
🚨 I’ve introduced the Train Crew Choice Act to take down yet another ridiculous Biden-Harris mandate.
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Labor Day was never meant to be a picnic. It was born in strikes, boycotts, and bloodshed. The Pullman strike of 1894, the Flint sit-downs of the 1930s, PATCO’s destruction in the 1980s.. these weren’t polite requests. They were workers forcing the country to recognize that labor
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More like a Monopoly board.. except in this game, the railroads already own every property.
Three days that shifted the transcon merger chessboard: Analysis
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What’s happening here should alarm anyone who cares about rail, supply chains, or independent oversight. Removing a Senate confirmed STB member in the middle of critical merger reviews and freight policy debates isn’t just irregular.. it risks destabilizing the very system the
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“The decision by BRS to embrace this [tentative] agreement underscores the value the pattern framework provides for workers, bringing wage increases and enhanced benefits without having to wait years”:
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Railroads are trying to make your communities less safe. They already use automated inspection tech, but now want federal approval to cut back on the one thing proven to prevent disasters: human inspections. Thank you @MorePerfectUS for amplifying this issue.
NEW: Rail lobbyists representing giants like Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern want to automate track inspections. Why? It would bring rail carriers more profits. Critics warn this would undermine safety — or even cause a repeat of what happened in East Palestine.
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Federal agencies like the Department of Transportation use advisory committees to help draft safety rules in rail & other industries. Dozens of labor representatives were terminated from the Rail Safety Advisory Committee. We urge @USDOTFRA to swiftly restore their membership.
Transportation Department Quietly Disbands Advisory Committees
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Interesting to see Brightline West leaning on its federal status as a railroad to swat away a local permit issue. That’s fine.. but let’s not forget that Brightline tried the opposite argument in Florida when workers organized, claiming it wasn’t really a railroad to dodge the
Brightline West was mistakenly cited last month by Clark County for what an official believed was the company starting work without a permit as it began grading for its Las Vegas high-speed train station. https://t.co/K6fVDouFeH
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