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The Biden Administration applauds all parties for reaching this hard-fought, mutually beneficial deal. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, a former union leader heavily involved for weeks in the back-and-forth and all throughout Wednesday’s talks, used Twitter this morning to announce without details that “ following more than 20 consecutive hours of negotiations at, the rail companies and union negotiators came to a tentative agreement that balances the needs of workers, businesses, and our nation’s economy.

The possibility of a work stoppage forced Amtrak on Wednesday to preemptively cancel long-distance rail services beginning today on tracks owned and maintained by freight rail companies, with exceptions for the Northeast’s commuting corridor between Washington, D.C., and Boston because Amtrak owns those tracks ( Bloomberg News). freight rail unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, or BLET, and SMART Transportation Division.Both had yet to reach deals with rail carriers, which had struck or were close to reaching tentative agreements with the other 10 of the country’s 12 rail unions.Ī rail strike could have cost an estimated $2 billion a day and the risk of a shutdown had already disrupted shipments of agricultural products and chemicals, and would have slowed delivery of everything from new cars, coal and oil to consumer goods. And railway companies will benefit, he added, by being “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.”Ī 30-day moratorium that had so far forestalled a strike was set to end Friday for members of the two largest U.S. “These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,” he said. “The tentative agreement reached tonight is an important win for our economy and the American people,” the president said, calling it “a win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic.” Negotiating parties agreed to a “post-ratification cooling off period” of several weeks, to ensure that if a vote fails for any reason, there will not be an immediate rail shutdown, CBS News reported. The tentative deal affecting more than 100,000 workers must be ratified by the union members, who agreed not to strike in the interim ( The Hill).

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