" The two largest rail unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation union, which represents conductors,
are holding their own ratification votes, the results of which are due November 21.
If one or both of those unions reject the deals, they would be prepared to strike December 9."
"If one or both of those contracts are voted down, the BMWED said it is ready to further push its strike date back to December 9."
As holidays near, a nationwide rail strike is still on the table
Like many rail workers, he expected better, in part because of what he’d been hearing from the White House. President Biden has repeatedly talked of being the most pro-union administration in American history. He appointed former union leader Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor. If anyone would go to bat for rail workers, it would be this president and this labor secretary, Murtagh believed.
“It was like, this is our time,” he says.
He was stunned when Biden’s Presidential Emergency Board released its recommendations, which became the framework for the tentative agreement. The unions had requested 15 paid sick days, up from zero. The board responded by recommending just one additional personal day.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1136459343/railroads-rail-workers-strike-negotiations-labor-union