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BMWED INSISTS NATION'S RAILROADS TO IMMEDIATELY INSTITUTE TESTING AND
TRACING OF COVID-19
The BMWED has insisted the nation's freight railroads to immediately
institute testing and tracing of the COVID-19 virus amongst all
employees, complete with daily temperature testing and other stringent
safeguards. The current system of self-reporting and general
dismissiveness of the severity of the health crisis we all face is
negligent and must come to an end.

Four BMWED members have died from COVID-19, and hundreds more have been
affected by the virus. The pandemic is not slowing nationally. Numbers
are rising and the death toll is increasing. We understand that train
service must continue. We remain willing - as always - to work to that
goal. But, we will not be sacrificial pawns to railroads who resist
implementing screening and tracing procedures that would greatly help
control COVID-19 spread. We are not going to continue to have our
members die.

The link below contains the letters sent by President Simpson to the
Class 1 freights. They closely mirror those sent to Amtrak and Metra
commuter railroads last week.


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