{"id":1747661,"date":"2022-11-22T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747661"},"modified":"2022-11-22T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:48:51","slug":"rail-strike-threat-returns-after-union-group-rejects-latest-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rail-strike-threat-returns-after-union-group-rejects-latest-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Strike Threat Returns After 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-after-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=1747661&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-11-21T113359.787.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<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.<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1747661","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747661\/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=1747661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}