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I'd like to take this oppertunity to thank everyone who has responded (both good and bad) to this email. I know that this website is for those of us who work for the railroad and are railroad enthusiast. Yet, I felt that this subject is something that needed to be addressed, not only in the rail industry, but as a matter of public awareness. Now, in these recent years, we've seen incidences of work place (and school) violence by peo-ple we deem as nut jobs, but, we need to ask ourselves, what really was the root cause for some one to go to these extremes. Was there underlining factors that led these people to resort to such drastic measures. In the rail industry, there's been a few cases (though never reported nationally), and some of the underlining factors have been bias, harrasment and discrimination by other employees (including mana-gers). Which leads me to the next subject; the hypocritical lenghts these companies (carriers [for all of us union brothers/sisters]) will go to not deal with/hide the facts of discrimination and bias in their own business(es). In the company i work for, we have what they call a 'diversity department'. They are 'suppose to' investigate incidences of these types and recommend a course of action or discipline to rectify the situation. What a joke this department is. When I went through the company's 'mandatory' diver-sity training seminar, I (we) found out how much 'nonsense' it really was. First; we trained separately from the foremen and managers, which some of us thought that was an indignity right from the start. Second; the moderator was speaking in terms of bigotry and bias amongst blue collar employees like us. When asked by some about bias from our supervision, she was stumped. She couldn't believe that the foremen or managers would do such things, but there were several of us who proved her wrong. So now, let's fast foward to my situation which is just like I'm describing it. I'm a current victem of such bigotry and bias. Although my union representative is backing me tooth and nail, it feel very much like this 30 'working day' suspension (coming in January), is a done deal. It will not only suffer me, but my estranged wife and son as well, both of whom are disabled, but that doesn't seem to matter to them. So, for all of you rail-roaders out there, have a wonderful holiday season and for those with families, enjoy every moment with them. I know this will pass and the truth will win over the lies, but right now, the lies are winning and I can only pray for a miracle. God Bless You All!!!! Glenn A Real Railroader-A Real American!!
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