If the supply chain and consumers must suffer to improve railroad worker working conditions (improved quality of life around availability and attendance is the ask), that seems like a reasonable course of action when all other options have been exhausted.

I recommend some light reading regarding the working conditions railroad workers currently face. The solution is simple: railroads simply need to stop abusing their workers while raking in record profits. Freight rail can afford it, there is no excuse except to maximize profits.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122918098/railroads-freight-...

https://inthesetimes.com/article/railroad-job-conditions-nat...

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/15/rail-j15.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/14/us-railroad...

https://www.newsweek.com/why-railroad-workers-like-me-are-pl...