The fierce negotiations that nearly shut down the country’s freight rail system last week hinged on a quality of life issue: furloughs for workers. Railway workers nearly went on strike for paid sick leave. They lost their fight, but in the post-pandemic era, the question of how and when workers can take time off from …
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The New York Times building on October 26. Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images More than 1,000 members of the New York Times union, which includes hundreds of newsroom staff, plan to walk off the job if company management does not agree to terms of a new contract. here on December 8, the union announced …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Representatives moved urgently to end the looming nationwide railroad strike on Wednesday, passing a bill that would bind businesses and workers to a proposed settlement concluded in September but rejected by some of the 12 unions concerned. The measure passed by a vote of 290 to 137 and …
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Association of American Railroads President and CEO Ian Jeffries said the companies are “ready, willing and able” to negotiate new terms with railroad unions. After a fourth U.S. railroad union rejected a deal with their employers brokered by the Biden administration – and rekindled fears of a national railroad strike – a spokesperson for the …
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New York CNN Business — America faces a growing risk of a crippling nationwide freight rail strike in two weeks. Rank and file members of the country’s largest rail union, which represents drivers in the industry, have rejected a tentative labor agreement with the freight railways, the union announced on Monday. The country’s second-largest railway …
Members of a union that mainly represents rail freight drivers have narrowly rejected a provisional work contract, their union said on Monday. If the two sides fail to reach another tentative agreement by early December, railroad workers could strike – an outcome that industry officials say could cost the economy more than $2 billion a …
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An aerial view of shipping containers and freight trains at the BNSF Los Angeles Intermodal Facility yard in Los Angeles, California, September 15, 2022. Bing Guan | Reuters SMART-TD, one of the largest railroad unions, rejected the tentative agreement with railroad management, raising the likelihood of a strike in December. BLET, the other largest union …
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