railroads - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

This industry’s BMWED (“B-M-W-E-D”) Rank and File United rejected a September 2022 contract that didn’t include travel pay for workers. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this industry that the US Senate blocked from receiving seven sick days to avoid a December 2022 strike that would have caused a supply chain crisis.

ANSWER: railroads [or trains; or locomotives; or equivalents like railways; prompt on transportation]

[10h] Rail unions objected to this attendance software whose point-based system resulted in a 10-day suspension if a worker was unable to respond to a call for work, effectively eliminating sick days.

ANSWER: Hi-Viz

[10m] This firm’s rail subsidiary BNSF abandoned Hi-Viz in June 2022. Despite splitting off “baby B” stocks, this firm has the most expensive stock price per share.

ANSWER: Berkshire Hathaway [prompt on BH]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	15.00	96%	54%	0%

Data


WUSTL A	Chicago B	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Claremont A	10	10	20
Columbia A	Minnesota A	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Imperial A	10	0	10
Purdue A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	20
McGill A	Illinois A	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Penn State A	0	0	0
Rutgers B	Michigan A	10	10	20
Chicago A	Stanford A	10	0	10
MIT A	Texas A	10	0	10
NYU A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10
Yale B	Virginia A	10	10	20
Brown A	Cornell A	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Harvard A	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Iowa State A	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Toronto A	10	0	10
UC Berkeley B	Houston A	10	10	20
Chicago C	Indiana A	10	10	20
Duke A	Florida A	10	0	10
Columbia B	Florida B	10	10	20
Yale A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	20
Maryland A	Ohio State A	10	10	20
WUSTL B	Penn A	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Cornell B	10	0	10