Sharing a good summary since we chaplains are in the news again with the Linsday Clancy trial. 🩺
This is also your reminder that chaplains are mental health providers, with a very specific focus. 🛟
We occupy a complicated space, with lots of clinical knowledge and training. 🧠
Because we care. ⚓️
![Amy McBeth, a BNSF spokeswoman, said: “We now have agreements with eight of our 12 unions providing for paid sick days. Discussions are ongoing with the remaining four unions, including BMWE (Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees), and it is our intention to ultimately have paid sick day agreements in place covering our entire scheduled workforce.”
Ron Kaminkow, a locomotive engineer and organizer at the activist group, Railroad Workers United, applauded the progress on paid sick days, but added: “It’s a little disingenuous for the railroads to suddenly make nice.” He said they eased up on paid sick days because “the American people learned about their massive stock buybacks, their budget cuts and the staffing cuts that probably played into the train wreck in East Palestine [Ohio], which badly hurt their image.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sai4dffqjchk4kpe35wdigoh/bafkreihlfsysf4mj624ywcisif7k7asm5krarsim5odfvd3hq4sed75azm)
