How potential rail strike would impact consumers, businesses
The Biden administration was putting pressure on railroads and unions Wednesday to settle their differences and avert a strike. But just in case that doesn’t work, the administration was also working on a plan to use trucks and planes to move goods that are normally carried by freight railroads.Here are key things to know ahead of a possible strike this Friday.
Lawmakers could adopt the recommendations of the emergency board, or they could order additional negotiations or arbitration to settle the standoff. However, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, and the transportation division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, which represents conductors, have held out in hopes of better terms. They want railroads to increase staffing — the major railroads have cut nearly one-third of their jobs in the last six years — and to ease strict attendance policies that make it difficult to take time off.
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