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You're right about the effort to divide up the work force. Management can bargain as corporate (collective), but labor is considered wrong for wanting the same bargaining power. That's an unacceptable double standard. The problem is, though, you can't as a practical matter expect improved compensation when the enterprise itself or even an entire economic sector is less and less profitable. It's correctly pointed out that trucking has been heavily subsidized by the government at all levels, and that without those subsidies, most of the sector would be highly unprofitable in view of their actual costs. The fair comparison with rail transportation must reflect these costs, and for many purposes, such a comparison would show modern railroads are highly competitive. I'd like to see the government assume ownership of the rails themselves just as government has ownership of roads and highways. Rail routes should be in common use among competing rail companies.
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