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]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Florida A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Iowa State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| MIT A | Texas A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Harvard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Penn State A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Virginia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |