The Teamsters’ Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern opposition sacrifices the wrong members

America’s freight rail industry, deregulated by the 1980 Staggers Rail Act, has spent four decades investing private capital to move goods more efficiently across a continent-sized economy. The proposed $71.5 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast single-line railroad represents the logical culmination of that progress. Predictably, some […]