“Music for Safe Rails and Sustainable Communities” set for this Sunday

The U-Liners will headline a benefit this Sunday to assist the defense of the Lac-Mégantic Rail Workers who their supporters say are being scapegoated for a tragedy caused by railroad management. “Music for Safe Rails and Sustainable Communities” features the U-Liners, with Tom & Elisabeth, this Sunday, July 9 at 6:30p at the Dew Drop Inn (2801 8th St NE WDC). Donations support the Lac-Méganatic Rail Workers Defense fund. Four years after the devastating oil train wreck that destroyed the town of Lac- Mégantic in Quebec, two railroad workers are now facing criminal charges for a tragedy caused by unsafe railroad management policies. “Last week we saw how quickly things can become deadly with the two CSX conductors being killed in the District,” local train engineer Herbert Harris Jr. tells Union City. “We have seen employees scapegoated in other industries for bad corporate policy and practices.” Harris is Chairman of the DC State Legislative Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (IBT).

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