No IR job faces any kind of threat to his/her job which is secured with a guaranteed & generous pension. This kind of wordings can be used to depict the status of the software personnel employed in private companies when ever there is economic slow down or unrest in USA/ European countries.
It may be a problem for IR, where to gainfully utilise them as the non technical staff cannot be deployed in technical deptt where maximum activities pertaining to train operation is required. Where as technical staff can be utilised in most of the technical jobs.