Democratic and GOP leaders are lining up behind Biden’s plan to head off a potential freight rail strike, with just days left before a threatened shutdown could start to affect supplies for critical resources like drinking water.
It represents a significant rift between labor and Biden, who has resisted the move for months and described himself in a statement Monday as a “proud pro-labor President.” But he said the economic costs — up to 765,000 jobs, lost access to chemicals for clean drinking water, and farmers and ranchers unable to feed their livestock — would be too great to bear.the tentative agreement, said in a statement that it disagrees with Biden’s proposed path.
Many Democratic senators are calling for a speedy vote as well. But Republicans in the Senate remain a wildcard.that the workers,not just the union bosses,will accept.” Carper said he’s supportive of Biden’s call for congressional action, arguing that the majority of unions involved in the negotiations voted to approve the tentative agreement. Carper said Walsh indicated to him that the agreement reached in September was the best possible outcome.
Workers won significant pay raises and other victories in the tentative deal but paid sick leave was not one of them, and three of the 12 major unions rejected it in rank-and-file votes, teeing up a complete rail shutdown by Dec. 9 at the earliest. has been a vocal critic of the railroads, arguing that the tentative agreement did not go far enough to address quality-of-life concerns for railroad workers.
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