President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month's deadline in the stalled contract talks, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would take up legislation this week to impose the deal that unions agreed to in September.
Pelosi said the House would not change the terms of the September agreement, which would challenge the Senate to approve the House bill without changes. Both the unions and railroads have been lobbying Congress while contract talks continue. If Congress acts, it will end talks between the railroads and four rail unions that rejected their deals Biden helped broker before the original strike deadline in September. Eight other unions have approved their five-year deals with the railroads and are in the process of getting back pay for their workers for the 24% raises that are retroactive to 2020.
Biden's remarks and Pelosi's statement came after a coalition of more than 400 business groups sent a letter to congressional leaders Monday urging them to step into the stalled talks because of fears about the devastating potential impact of a strike that could force many businesses to shut down if they can't get the rail deliveries they need. Commuter railroads and Amtrak would also be affected in a strike because many of them use tracks owned by the freight railroads.
A similar group of businesses sent another letter to Biden last month urging him to play a more active role in resolving the contract dispute."No one benefits from a rail work stoppage - not our customers, not rail employees and not the American economy," said AAR President and CEO Ian Jefferies. "Now is the appropriate time for Congress to pass legislation to implement the agreements already ratified by eight of the twelve unions.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
We all know that the president pushed this off til after the elections...
Didn’t he say he fixed this a while ago
Never good to let government step in on these things. We need to learn to argue our own battles before calling Mom.
I thought he fixed those negotiations already
What is Mayor Pete doing about it? Or is he still on paternity leave?
But Joe led us to believe he fixed this before the election. UnionOwned
Railroaded Joe
I thought this was fixed?
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Joe Biden Calls on Congress to Intervene and Block Potential Railroad Strike“Let me be clear: a rail shutdown would devastate our economy,” Joe Biden said in a statement. “Without freight rail, many U.S. industries would shut down.” The worthless Congress makes 100 times more than the Rail-workers, who work 120-150 hours a week, Congress doesn’t even work 150 hours in a year! They should be paid MUCH less, so hard working American who deserve it, can be paid more!!! All by design and Brandon knows it Oh please. The Biden Administration planned this nearly a year ago. It's going to be their excuse for cutting our supply of goods and produce. Causing further inflation. We all know that crashing the economy is a part of their agenda.
Source: nbcchicago - 🏆 545. / 51 Read more »
Biden boosts US effort to stem sexual violence in war zonesPresident Joe Biden is strengthening U.S. policy aimed at stemming sexual violence in war conflict zones. Can he do this? Or is it like the student loan forgiveness thing that people fell for, the one he used to win dem v o t e s . That really going to help inflation and the high energy bill we're getting now.
Source: ksatnews - 🏆 442. / 53 Read more »
Biden boosts US effort to stem sexual violence in war zonesPresident Biden is strengthening U.S. policy aimed at stemming sexual violence in war conflict zones. kprc2 click2houston biden us Maybe instead we should stop promoting war 🤷♂️ The worst child sex trafficker in history is Biden. Is he President of the World or US? We got too many problems here that need to be worked on.
Source: KPRC2 - 🏆 80. / 68 Read more »
As rail strike deadline nears, Biden to call on Congress to interveneWith less than two weeks from a railroad strike deadline, President Biden plans to call on Congress to take action to avert a shutdown of the country’s freight railroads, according to an official briefed on his plans. Another Biden failure. Commence Operation BlameShifting. The 'buck' on bad news can never stop at POTUS's desk! Oh that’s right down his alley.. he loves playing with choo-choo trains.
Source: washingtonpost - 🏆 95. / 72 Read more »
Biden Calls On Congress to Pass Legislation to Avert Rail ShutdownBig business groups and railroad companies are pressing Congress to intervene to avert a potential strike that would disrupt the flow of goods as soon as next week Another screwup by “Sippy Cup Biden” Didn't president Biden already take care of this lol Gosh, after POTUS took a victory lap for fixing the problem, he’s now asking Congress to fix the problem? 🤔🤔🤔
Source: WSJ - 🏆 98. / 63 Read more »
Biden calls on Congress to head off potential rail strikeOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks, following pressure by business groups on the stalled negotiations. LOL don't we have a transportation secretary? Pete B where are you? I thought Joe fixed this like back in August?
Source: AP - 🏆 728. / 51 Read more »