{"id":1641512,"date":"2022-09-15T06:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641512"},"modified":"2022-09-15T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:49:41","slug":"tentative-deal-reached-with-rail-workers-to-avert-strike-shipping-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tentative-deal-reached-with-rail-workers-to-avert-strike-shipping-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tentative Deal Reached With Rail Workers to Avert Strike, Shipping Chaos"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftentative-deal-reached-with-rail-workers-to-avert-strike-shipping-chaos%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=1641512&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>President Joe Biden has announced that a tentative deal has been reached between U.S. railroads and unions to avert a rail strike and service shutdown that threatened to wreak havoc on cargo shipments and disrupt the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/09\/15\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-tentative-railway-labor-agreement\/\">statement on Sept. 15<\/a> that the tentative deal between major U.S. railroads and unions representing some 115,000 workers was reached overnight, calling the development \u201can important win for our economy and the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators had until Friday to reach an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-agreement\">agreement<\/a> to avert the strike, which a number of experts warned could cause significant disruption to U.S. supply chains and impact the broader economy.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed A. El-Erian, president of Queens\u2019 College in Cambridge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/expert-warns-railroad-strike-would-cause-real-damage-in-the-us-economy_4731394.html\">had warned<\/a> that a rail strike would deliver another \u201cstagflationary shock\u201d to an economy already hammered by red-hot inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Secretary Martin Walsh brokered the all-night labor contract talks, with the agreement giving rail workers \u201cbetter pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>While the details of the agreement were not immediately available, a key issue was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-railroad\">railroad<\/a> companies\u2019 workplace attendance policies that unions said were unreasonably harsh in penalizing workers for taking days off when sick or attending family emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis abusive and punitive attendance policy is breaking apart families and causing locomotive engineers and other railroaders to come to work dangerously fatigued,\u201d the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen <a href=\"https:\/\/ble-t.org\/news\/statement-by-blet-national-president-dennis-pierce-on-bnsfs-announced-changes-to-its-hi-viz-punitive-attendance-policy\/\">said in a statement<\/a> on May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who faced political pressure over the looming strike, characterized the agreement as a win-win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agreement is also a victory for railway companies who will be able to retain and recruit more workers for an industry that will continue to be part of the backbone of the American economy for decades to come,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Prior lack of progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has announced that a tentative deal has been reached between U.S. railroads and unions to avert a rail strike and service shutdown that threatened to wreak havoc on cargo shipments and disrupt the economy. 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