Buffett’s Annual Meeting Set to Be Crashed by Railroad Workers

Shareholders attending Warren Buffett’s first in-person Berkshire Hathaway Inc. meeting since 2019 will be greeted by a group of BNSF railroad workers protesting a lack of pay increases and safety issues.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen is using the gathering in Omaha, Nebraska, to call out alleged labor and safety issues at Berkshire’s BNSF and rival Union Pacific Corp. The union plans to gather and hand out flyers near the arena where billionaire Buffett will host his first non-virtual annual meeting since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The railroad workers have not had a contract raise ...