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Reported by Timothy Noah for The New Republic. From time to time the Democrats are given an opportunity to demonstrate that they’re still the party of the working class. They have one now, but it looks like they’re going to flub it. A railroad contract negotiated in September by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh was voted…

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Reported by Kevin Freking and Josh Funk for AP News. The U.S. House moved urgently to head off the looming nationwide rail strike on Wednesday, passing a bill that would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached in September but rejected by some of the 12 unions involved. The measure passed…

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Reported by Alex Daugherty, Burgess Everett, Tanya Snyder and Nick Niedzwiadek for Politico Pro. The Senate voted Thursday to avert a freight rail strike just days before crucial drinking water, food and energy shipments were set to be sidelined, after hurried talks in both chambers of Congress and a visit to the Senate from two…

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Reported by Joan McCarter for Daily Kos. The Senate voted Thursday to force the railway unions to accept the tentative agreement they had reached with rail companies back in September and averting a potential rail strike that would have begun on Dec. 7. That vote was 80-15 with one—Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)—voting present. The Senate…

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Reported by Ian Kullgren and Diego Areas Munhoz for Bloomberg Law. President Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour push to head off a rail strike with a Congressional intervention may have cleared the House Wednesday, but the long-term consequences for Democrats’ relationship with unions—not to mention the bill’s future in the Senate—are anyone’s guess. The race to pre-empt…

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Reported by Tim Ryan for Law 360. Congress is poised to avert a rail strike by passing legislation imposing the terms of a tentative agreement between unions and railroads, but experts and labor advocates said resentment from the action could linger. The House voted Wednesday to pass a bill adopting the terms of a tentative…

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Reported by Kasie Hunt for MSNBC MSNBC – Rail Union Rep. “Disappointed Vote is Taken From Workers” Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO, joined MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt to discuss the ongoing Senate votes on the national rail labor dispute.

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Reported by Isabella Murray, Trish Turner, and Allison Pecorin for ABC News. The Senate on Thursday voted to avert a looming strike of the nation’s railway workers by forcing a labor agreement. A bipartisan majority of senators approved a House bill that will codify a tentative agreement between the rail companies and rail unions, which…

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ABC News  (Video) Transportation Trades Department President at the AFL CIO, Greg Regan, discusses the demands being made by rail workers and the cultural issues within rail corporations.

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