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How Biden helped avert a rail strike – and another economic crisis
The Hill ^ | 09/15/2022 | ALEX GANGITANO AND AMIE PARNES

Posted on 09/15/2022 1:51:53 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The White House came close this week to facing yet another crisis, this time over a railroad dispute that could have taken a crowbar to the U.S. economy ahead of crucial midterm elections.

But in the end, a tentative deal was struck, with both sides crediting the Biden administration with stepping in to help avert a strike that was set to begin on Friday — one that could have further disrupted the nation’s fragile supply chain.

Administration officials became involved in the talks weeks ago, lobbying both sides around the clock to argue the stakes were too high for a strike.

“It’s a big political risk. If it all blew up, the administration was going to be left holding the bag,” an industry source familiar with the talks said.

Biden called into negotiations around 9 p.m. last night to say a shutdown of railways was unacceptable, according to a White House official. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh led 20 hours of talks in the final stretch while Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg worked the phones

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; chat; crisis; fakenews; falseflag; freight; fromtheshill; globalistpropaganda; notnews; rail; railroad; shipping; sidebarabuse; sidebarkaren; stfufrkaren; strike; unions
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The railroads shed one-quarter to one-third of their employees in the past several years and showed high profits on Wall Street. However, I think that in today’s work environment having employees severely penalized for taking leave for a necessary medical/dental appointment, attending to a family emergency, or for a close relative’s funeral was a bridge too far for the railroads to defend.

What likely remains is being on call nearly 24/7 for 14 to 30 days at a time and reporting to work within 90 or 120 minutes from being called - still too high a barrier for many who should not be in the saddle and rightly need to find a less stressful job.


41 posted on 09/15/2022 3:57:03 PM PDT by CedarDave (Pfizer's boosters: You just turned your immune system's functionality into a subscription service!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Some how I still think we are still going to take it in the caboose


42 posted on 09/15/2022 4:49:00 PM PDT by al baby (Yes i know it was Gere )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joe Stolen to the rescue !!!!


43 posted on 09/15/2022 4:54:49 PM PDT by Pearfect
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To: gibsonguy

I saved a woman from rape once, by changing my mind.


44 posted on 09/15/2022 4:55:11 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Brilliant advice? I would say more of OUR tax money.


45 posted on 09/15/2022 4:58:01 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Great but don’t slander God in your glory.


46 posted on 09/15/2022 5:13:47 PM PDT by sportsleuth (Job 13:9)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
Yeah! He has to get it stitched back up periodically or he will end up like Barney Frank.
47 posted on 09/15/2022 5:36:19 PM PDT by sport
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To: gibsonguy

Thanks for the truthful explanation. We ALL know President Poopy Pants is too demented to leave a stage. He ain’t finagling solutions to a rail strike.


48 posted on 09/15/2022 5:42:07 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How Biden suffered 3rd degree brain fog during the
negotiations to avoid the rail strike.

Sweet dreams at 06:30pm.


49 posted on 09/15/2022 6:05:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Today is Thursday September 15th 2022, and BidenIdiot is still the worst President in United States history.


50 posted on 09/15/2022 6:52:34 PM PDT by cranked
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To: volunbeer

I think it’s a little payback for the ridiculous amount of investigations the Democrats did on Trump. I want them to investigate them so much to the point of investigating a Congress person who comes in five minutes late for work. I don’t care because we can’t get a bill through anyway because we still have Joe in the way so might as well make it as uncomfortable for Democrats as we possibly can.


51 posted on 09/15/2022 8:22:50 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder how much the Bidens received as a payoff?
Is it enough for Hunter Biden to pay child support?


52 posted on 09/15/2022 8:44:17 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“And then he shot 12 hole-in-ones.”


53 posted on 09/15/2022 8:50:09 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A grift of major proportions. All these lefty gestapo turds can do is pull off false flags, and poorly at that.

Biden makes a few phone calls, a few 1 hour trips to Delaware to get his secret elderboost drug fix and BINGO.

Biden is walking on water and is an annointed Saint?

BUahahahahahahah!

America is a lot smarter than that.That schtick might work on Ukrainiains and NATO but it plays poorly in Preoria.


54 posted on 09/16/2022 3:15:30 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Hazwaste

Another planned economic crisis averted. He needs wins so they are planning them one by one


55 posted on 09/16/2022 4:33:56 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

What is this thing I heard on varney about a $11,000 bonus for approving this democrat deal? Please post replies..


56 posted on 09/16/2022 10:00:53 AM PDT by electricjack (Hello I am from the govt an an I here to help you Ugh worst thing I ever heard in my 80+ years..)
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To: Lazamataz

57 posted on 09/17/2022 6:16:54 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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