BRS's Tim Tarrant on Ludlow, Blair Mountain and Railroad Safety Today

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen National VP Tim Tarrant discusses his terminal cancer diagnosis in 2007 and the union healthcare plan that saved his life, the Ludlow Massacre of Easter Sunday 1914 in which approximately 75 people including eleven children died in a burning tent colony after union leader Louis Tikas was murdered during a fake truce negotiation, the Battle of Blair Mountain and the labor origin of the word redneck, current BRS safety fights at Metra Chicago and the Port Authority of New Jersey and the May 2026 LIRR strike, the first in 42 years, that won a fair cost-of-living contract after three days that shut down New York commuter service east of Manhattan.