{"id":1747081,"date":"2022-11-21T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747081"},"modified":"2022-11-21T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:02:50","slug":"rail-strike-threat-returns-as-union-group-rejects-latest-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rail-strike-threat-returns-as-union-group-rejects-latest-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Strike Threat Returns As Union Group Rejects Latest Offer"},"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\">20<\/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%2Frail-strike-threat-returns-as-union-group-rejects-latest-offer%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=1747081&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 threat of a railroad strike returns just before the holidays as the nation\u2019s largest rail conductor union voted to reject its latest offer.<\/p>\n<p>SMART Transportation Division, the union representing the rail conductors, announced the results on Monday, adding that negotiations have until a December 8 deadline to avoid a potential strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, this vote is about the frustration that the railroads have created with [their attendance policies] and the deterioration of quality of life as a result for our conductors,\u201d Jared Cassity, the national legislative director at SMART Transportation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2022\/11\/21\/rail-union-strike-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about attendance policies, sick time, fatigue, and the lack of family time. A lot of these things that cannot be seen but are felt by our membership. It\u2019s destroying their livelihoods,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The attendance policy has been a major focus of the union vote. The deal offered to union workers also included a 24% pay increase by 2024 and updates for workers for healthcare appointments. Unless Congress intervenes or a new deal is struck before the deadline, workers could strike.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR), a top Republican on the House subcommittee that includes railroads, spoke out against the potential union strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, what a terrible Christmas gift that would be to give to the American people at this point. Right before Christmas, shutting down our supply chain,\u201d Crawford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/20\/rail-union-congress-strike-00069488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Politico. \u201cSo we\u2019ve got something prepared if necessary, but I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s not necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aar.org\/economic-impact-of-railroad-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a> that a nationwide shutdown of railroads could result in economic output would likely be at least $2 billion per day.\u00a0A strike could also have massive consequences beyond rail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA single container or trailer on a railcar can contain 2,000 UPS packages, tens of thousands of bananas or hundreds of flat-screen televisions. A rail shutdown would slow or halt these shipments,\u201d the AAR stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/derailed-major-railroad-union-rejects-biden-admins-negotiated-labor-deal-putting-nationwide-strike-back-on-the-table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> regarding the rejection of a Biden administration proposal by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division of the Teamsters (BMWED), which represents nearly 12,000 railroad workers. The group rejected a tentative agreement between railroaders and Class I freight railroads.<\/p>\n<p>Another previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/second-railroad-union-rejects-biden-admins-labor-deal-increasing-the-threat-of-a-nationwide-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> focused on a second railroad union that rejected the labor deal negotiated by the Biden administration. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brs.org\/?zone=\/unionactive\/view_article.cfm&#038;HomeID=881487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen<\/a>\u00a0(BRS) voted overwhelmingly to reject the labor deal in a vote, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/labor-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">union<\/a> said in a statement. The union represents more than 6,000 railroad workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time that I can remember, the BRS members voted not to ratify a National Agreement, and with the highest participation rate in BRS history,\u201d union president Michael Baldwin said in a statement on the union\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>In September, railroad companies and labor unions struck the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wee-hours-deal-reached-at-last-minute-to-avert-crippling-railroad-workers-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tentative agreement<\/a>. The deal was negotiated by Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), led by Labor Secretary Martin Walsh.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Riggolizo contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of a railroad strike returns just before the holidays as the nation\u2019s largest rail conductor union voted to reject its latest offer. SMART Transportation Division, the union representing the rail conductors, announced the results on Monday, adding that negotiations have until a December 8 deadline to avoid a potential strike. \u201cHonestly, this vote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1747084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747081","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}