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In FY12 salaries, wages, and benefits accounted for 50.4 per cent of Amtrak's operating expenses and 70.7 per cent of its revenues.  No viable business can sustain these ratios.   Amtrak's unions are part of the problem. They need to be part of the solution.  Their members need to be more productive and effective.  They need to agree to changes.  Almost everyone else in society has had to change. Unions should not be given a free pass. Being more productive does not mean slashing wages and benefits.  But it does mean changing work rules and, in some instances, eliminating marginally productive and unnecessary employees. If Amtrak were privatized, labor would have to accept new conditions or be out of the game.  It is that simple. And rants are not likely to change the outcomes.  One of the reasons labor unions have declined is because they failed to grasp the need to change.  They dug in their heels.  We ain't going to cave into management was a long sung mantra. Bye!  Intransigence is a strong motive for management to automate the jobs (may have happened anyway) and move activities to right to work states or overseas.
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