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Sep 24, 2026 31 min

BMWED on CSX Cutting Track Workers While Reporting Record Profits

from America’s Work Force Union Podcast Hosted by BMA Media Group

CSX reported $3.94 billion in quarterly revenue and approximately $1 billion in quarterly net earnings. Then it notified the union it plans to cut its maintenance of way workforce by 29% and defer capital track maintenance at the same time. Nine hundred system production employees will be furloughed by November 15. Human track inspections have been reduced by 40% in the past 90 days. Workers who find defects are being pressured not to report them. Jason Graham, one of today's guests, lives near East Palestine, Ohio. On today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, BMWED General Chairmen Brian Thompson and Jason Graham discuss what is happening at CSX, why no other Class 1 railroad is doing this at the same scale, what deferred track maintenance actually means and what it will take to stop it. Visit bmwe.org for more.

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BMWED General Chairmen Brian Thompson of the Allied Federation and Jason Graham of the Alliance System Federation discuss CSX’s plan to furlough approximately 900 system production workers by November 15 and defer capital track maintenance while reporting record quarterly profits, the Trump FRA waiver that has reduced human track inspections on CSX by 40% in 90 days, the pressure on workers to suppress real defect reports while validating false automated inspection findings and why the approach is being watched by every other Class 1 railroad board in the country.

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