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He tried to raise the alarm about railroad safety. Then he got fired | Working People
When we hear the term "whistleblower," we tend to think of names like Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange—people who have risked their freedom, even their lives, to expose government lies, abuses of power, and state secrets that the public needs to know about. But there are a range of federal statutes designed to protect those who blow the whistle on their employers, too, especially when those employers are breaking the law and/or endangering their workers and the public.
Michael Paul Lindsey II is a military veteran who has worked for Union Pacific as a trained…
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