{"id":1750290,"date":"2022-11-24T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750290"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:03:24","slug":"national-rail-strike-viewed-as-increasingly-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-rail-strike-viewed-as-increasingly-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"National Rail Strike Viewed as &#8220;Increasingly Inevitable&#8221;"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fnational-rail-strike-viewed-as-increasingly-inevitable%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=1750290&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 class=\"subheading\">A national freight rail strike is viewed as increasingly inevitable as four rail worker labor unions have rejected a tentative agreement with rail companies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In September, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/09\/15\/labor-secy-marty-walsh-clinched-rail-deal-while-biden-buttigieg-were-away\/\">brokered<\/a> a tentative deal between rail unions and rail carriers while President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were out of town. Union concerns centered around sick time and scheduling, and Walsh\u2019s work appeared to have avoided a strike that had the potential for far-reaching consequences on the American economy. However, the deal has fallen to pieces, and the clock is ticking as a December 9 strike looms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, members of SMART Transportation Division, the largest rail union involved in September\u2019s negotiations, voted against the agreement, as Bloomberg Law\u2019s Ian Kullgren <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/railway-labor-standoff-tests-bidens-clout-with-unions-workers\">reported<\/a>. Three other unions rejected the proposed agreement as well, while seven unions had agreed to the terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">If the rail companies and unions fail to broker a new deal, Congress could \u201cintervene and impose contract terms on railroad workers,\u201d as it did during the last rail strike in 1992, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/explainer-rail-strike-would-have-wide-impact-on-us-economy\/\">reported<\/a>. If neither potential solution materializes, a strike would take effect early next month. In that scenario, American consumers could be plagued with far-reaching economic turmoil, and Congressional intervention would become increasingly likely.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_22007766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22244685273834.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22007766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22244685273834.png\" alt=\"Fed Inflation\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, speaks at a White House event on Thursday, September 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jared Cassity, the alternate legislative director for SMART Transportation Division, noted that he has tapered expectations regarding the rail companies\u2019 willingness to further negotiate with unions, asserting that the potential for Congress to get involved gives the carriers leverage to withhold concessions, according to Kullgren. Cassity also implied that the strike is looking inevitable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22652183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/devastating-freight-rail-strike-major-unions-split-vote-upi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22652183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/devastating-freight-rail-strike-major-unions-split-vote-upi.jpg\" alt=\"UPI\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Devastating U.S. freight rail strike still possible as major unions split vote. (UPI)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not optimistic about the railroads\u2019 willingness to negotiate for more,\u201d Cassity said. \u201cI\u2019m hopeful, but really not that optimistic. And there\u2019s really nothing that obligates them to give more at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at the end of the Railway Labor Act, and ultimately the end is a lockout or strike. That\u2019s where we are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22456468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/10\/wi\/ap\/railroad-contract-talks-freight-train-cars-sit-norfolk-southern-rail-yard-sept-14-2022-atlanta-businesses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22456468 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/railroad-contract-talks-freight-train-cars-sit-norfolk-southern-rail-yard-sept-14-2022-atlanta-businesses-1024x767-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Freight train cars sit in a Norfolk Southern rail yard on September 14, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo\/Danny Karnik)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Echoing Cassity\u2019s sentiments,\u00a0Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen President Dennis Pearce stated that \u201cCongress staying out of it would obviously giving [sic] unions leverage,\u201d as CNN Business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/23\/business\/railroad-strike-outlook\/index.html\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_22636353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/11\/wi\/ap\/biden-president-joe-biden-speaks-deficit-reduction-roosevelt-at-white-house-washington-oct-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22636353 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biden-president-joe-biden-speaks-deficit-reduction-roosevelt-at-white-house-washington-oct-21-1024x623-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, October 21, 2022. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden and his fellow pro-union Democrats in Congress face a tough political predicament. A prolonged strike would have negative economic effects on Americans, who are already bearing the brunt of sky-high inflation that has not been seen in decades. If Congress does intervene, the conditions of its legislation could potentially anger the very union workers they claim to champion.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a White House official stated that a strike would be \u201cunacceptable,\u201d according to Kullgren:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As the President has said from the beginning, a shutdown is unacceptable because of the harm it would inflict on jobs, families, farms, businesses, and communities across the country. A majority of unions have voted to ratify the tentative agreement, and the best option is still for the parties to resolve this themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rail companies have estimated that some $2 billion daily would bleed from the American economy during a strike, as the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/explainer-rail-strike-would-have-wide-impact-on-us-economy\/\">reported<\/a>:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Railroads haul about 40% of the nation\u2019s freight each year. The railroads estimated that a rail strike would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/economy-congress-government-and-politics-a53abd85fa6f8b3ccd622222ea9a4c46\"><span>cost the economy $2 billion<\/span><\/a>\u00a0a day in a report issued earlier this fall. Another recent report put together by a chemical industry trade group projected that if a strike drags on for a month some 700,000 jobs would be lost as manufacturers who rely on railroads shut down, prices of nearly everything would increase even more and the economy could be thrust into a recession.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>And although some businesses would try to shift shipments over to trucks, there aren\u2019t nearly enough of them available. The Association of American Railroads trade group estimated that 467,000 additional trucks a day would be needed to handle everything railroads deliver.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ability to transport crucial chemicals, packaged food for humans, food for livestock, and retail goods would be greatly undermined as families get ready for Christmas and Hanukkah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national freight rail strike is viewed as increasingly inevitable as four rail worker labor unions have rejected a tentative agreement with rail companies.\u00a0 In September, Secretary of Labor Marty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750293,"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-1750290","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\/1750290","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=1750290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}