{"id":1641180,"date":"2022-09-14T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641180"},"modified":"2022-09-14T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:04:48","slug":"biden-administration-prepares-for-potential-nationwide-railroad-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-prepares-for-potential-nationwide-railroad-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Prepares for Potential Nationwide Railroad Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-prepares-for-potential-nationwide-railroad-shutdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The administration of President Joe Biden has been preparing a contingency plan to ensure deliveries of critical goods by keeping other transportation lines functional should thousands of union rail workers go on strike following stalled labor negotiations, according to a White House official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working with other modes of transportation, including shippers, truckers, and air freight to see how they can step in and keep goods moving in case of this rail shutdown,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/09\/13\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-nsc-coordinator-for-strategic-communications-john-kirby-6\/\">news conference<\/a> on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration has also been working with relevant agencies to assess what supply chains and commodities are most likely to face severe disruptions,\u201d said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre said Biden, as well as several Cabinet secretaries, made \u201chundreds of calls\u201d and have met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-railroad\">railroad<\/a> unions and railroad companies since early spring to prevent a strike.<\/p>\n<p>Some 60,000 union members working for railroads, including Union Pacific, Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s BNSF, CSX, and Norfolk Southern, could go on strike as early as Sept. 16 if their demands over pay and working conditions aren\u2019t met.<\/p>\n<p>The potential shutdown could freeze almost 30 percent of U.S. cargo shipments, stoke inflation, impede supplies of food and fuel, cost the U.S. economy about $2 billion per day, and cause transportation woes.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goiam.org\/news\/departments\/hq\/rail-division\/iam-district-19-members-vote-to-reject-freight-rail-agreement\/\">statement<\/a> on Wednesday, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) District Lodge 19 said nearly 5,000 IAM members have voted to reject the tentative labor agreement\u00a0based on the recommendations of the Biden administration\u2019s Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), marking the union as the first to have voted to authorize a strike as the \u201ccooling off\u201d period in negotiations nears the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have waited long enough for a decent contract, and we demand to strike \u2026 The IAM\u2019s unauthorized decision to leave the coalition left us vulnerable and caused<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of President Joe Biden has been preparing a contingency plan to ensure deliveries of critical goods by keeping other transportation lines functional should thousands of union rail workers go on strike following stalled labor negotiations, according to a White House official. \u201cWe are working with other modes of transportation, including shippers, truckers, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}