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Reported by Dani Romero for Yahoo Finance. Rail workers across the country were set to walk off the job on July 18 before President Joe Biden intervened, the latest development in a contentious saga that has been brewing for years. In an executive order signed on July 15, Biden established an emergency three-person board of…

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America’s Workforce Union Podcast Samantha Brown, Communications Director for the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and discussed how the Presidential Emergency Board, appointed by President Biden, seeks to reach a contractual agreement between the United Rail Unions and the railroads. Biden recently announced the formation of the…

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Reported by Yahoo Finance. AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Greg Regan joins Yahoo Finance Live to weigh in on how the union contract negotiations with railroads are proceeding, the issues at stake including wages and benefits, and the potential for work stoppage.

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Reported by George Anderson for Retail Wire. President Joseph Biden last Friday stepped in with an executive order designed to keep freight rail workers from striking over the next 60 days. Mr. Biden signed the action naming an emergency board of arbitrators that will help resolve disputes between the workers and their employers. The arbitrators…

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Reported by Harrison Mantas for Fort Worth Star-Telegram. President Joe Biden blocked a strike Friday by the nation’s railroad workers by naming a board to help resolve the dispute. Rail labor unions were preparing to strike July 18 when a federally mandated “cooling off period” expired, however, Biden’s order extends that period for 60 days.…

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Reported by David Lassen for Trains. Preventing a national rail strike that could have begun Monday, July 18, President Joe Biden has established a Presidential Emergency Board to investigate the ongoing dispute between railroads and workers. Biden will name the members of the three-person board, whose members can not have any financial or other interest…

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