WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:01:49.3760000" NOTE recognizability:0.867 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.155 Santa Fe Corp. Employees continue NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:02.155 --> 00:00:04.310 fighting a new attendance policy NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:04.376 --> 00:00:06.140 they say will make it harder NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:06.140 --> 00:00:08.230 to take time off or sick days. NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:08.230 --> 00:00:10.210 6 news reporter Matt Lively talked NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:10.210 --> 00:00:12.469 to one local union chair Tuesday, NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:12.470 --> 00:00:15.286 who set a strike is a real possibility, NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:15.290 --> 00:00:17.607 and tonight we hear from a supply NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:17.607 --> 00:00:19.415 chain and logistics expert who NOTE Confidence: 0.8800162 00:00:19.415 --> 00:00:21.290 says that could be devastating. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:22.340 --> 00:00:24.225 BNSF employees could be going NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:24.225 --> 00:00:26.110 on strike come February 1st NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:26.185 --> 00:00:28.237 due to a new attendance policy. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:30.460 The company is putting in place. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:30.460 --> 00:00:32.973 One industry expert says this not only NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:32.973 --> 00:00:35.606 will crush supply chain but could also NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:35.606 --> 00:00:37.838 cost hundreds of millions of dollars. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:39.916 Margaret Kidd is the program director NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:39.916 --> 00:00:41.763 of supply chain and logistics NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:41.763 --> 00:00:43.738 at the University of Houston. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:45.938 She says in 1991 a railroad strike NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:45.938 --> 00:00:47.778 of more than 200,000 railroad NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:47.778 --> 00:00:50.262 workers lasted just 14 hours but NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:50.262 --> 00:00:52.698 estimated to cost about 600 million. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:55.034 Dollars with existing supply chain issues NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:55.034 --> 00:00:58.199 due to COVID and California port issues. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.154 A railroad strike could devastate how fuel, NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:03.698 coal, and supplier goods are delivered. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:06.316 Employees are considering a strike after NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:01:06.316 --> 00:01:08.931 BNSF announced a points based attendance NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:01:08.931 --> 00:01:11.738 policy that is seen as a punishment. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685649 00:01:11.740 --> 00:01:12.160 From NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:12.160 --> 00:01:13.426 mini railroaders implications NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:13.426 --> 00:01:15.536 to the economy are enormous. NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:15.540 --> 00:01:19.060 I would have to think that the Biden NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:21.039 administration will will step in. NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.270 My read on this new. NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:23.270 --> 00:01:25.730 The absentee policy at BNSF is NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:25.730 --> 00:01:27.370 really somewhat concerning to NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:27.448 --> 00:01:29.704 expect employees to be on call NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:29.704 --> 00:01:32.001 essentially every day of the month NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:32.001 --> 00:01:34.155 with possibly two or three days. NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:36.500 They can take off. I mean, NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:36.500 --> 00:01:39.216 it's just not realistic tonight at 10. NOTE Confidence: 0.8599609 00:01:39.220 --> 00:01:40.390 Hear from one NOTE Confidence: 0.84110415 00:01:40.390 --> 00:01:42.380 railroaders wife who says this NOTE Confidence: 0.84110415 00:01:42.380 --> 00:01:44.804 is unfair and effects more than NOTE Confidence: 0.84110415 00:01:44.804 --> 00:01:46.609 just the employee for now. NOTE Confidence: 0.84110415 00:01:46.610 --> 00:01:49.375 Reporting for six news I'm Matt Lively.