BNSF asks STB to review UP’s compliance with UP-SP merger conditions - Trains WASHINGTON — BNSF Railway has asked the Surface Transportation Board to review Union Pacific’s compliance with conditions that the board imposed to preserve competition after UP’s 1996 acquisition of ...

Investigations but no accountability. There are no consequences for these giant mergers that erode worker power, compromise the safety of the industry by cutting costs and hurt the working class.
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BNSF to STB: First Cure UP’s ‘Old Harms’ In advance of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) evaluating a Union Pacific (UP)-Norfolk Southern (NS) merger application (yet to be filed), rival BNSF wants a separate proceeding to examine, with...

"BNSF wants the STB to investigate “UP’s harmful conduct since the UP-SP merger; enforce the rights granted to BNSF to preserve competition; and modify the conditions of the UP-SP merger approval decision"

Then what--a slap on the wrist?

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