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Newsy YouTube Video. Greg Regan, President of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department, joined Newsy to discuss the surge in air travel complaints and explain why consumers should be frustrated with the airlines instead of the workers.

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Freight shippers are pressing Congress to address rail delays and service problems that slow the supply chain, in the wake of last week’s eleventh-hour deal averting a crippling national rail workers’ strike. “This agreement helps put one major problem to rest, but also highlights the work that needs to be done to resolve the freight…

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A recently dodged transportation crisis between the country’s biggest railroads and the employees who work for them put the question of sick leave, and who does and doesn’t get it in America, squarely at the forefront of national debate. One of the major sticking points in negotiations between the nation’s railroads and the unions representing…

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Reported by Chris Isidore for CNN. The 11th hour deal that prevented a crippling strike at the nation’s freight railroads is the biggest win for US unions in years. The agreement, reached in the early hours Thursday, kept more than 50,000 engineers and conductors on the job, and won members the changes in work rules…

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President Joe Biden’s allies are counting on political dividends from the agreement he brokered to avert a disastrous railroad strike, yet there’s still a risk the deal falters before November’s elections. Biden, who ran for office on a pledge to keep the nation’s proverbial trains running on time, managed to keep engineers and rail yard…

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President Biden on Thursday celebrated a last-minute agreement between railway companies and union leaders averting a potential strike that could have slowed commerce and delivered another blow to an already volatile economy. “This agreement is a big win for America,” Biden said during a hastily arranged event in the White House Rose Garden. “It’s a…

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As the White House on Thursday celebrated a tentative agreement to avert a nationwide rail strike that could have devastated the economy, union officials cautioned that not everything is signed, sealed and delivered. Most crucial in the days ahead: Workers across a dozen unions need to vote to ratify the compromise. “There’s going to be…

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Reported by Ben White and Eleanor Mueller for Politico. President Joe Biden narrowly avoided an economic and political debacle on Thursday as senior administration officials helped salvage a tentative, last-minute deal to avert a devastating railroad strike. And it almost didn’t happen. Steering clear of disaster required some 20 straight hours of talks beginning Wednesday…

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The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO has offered its support for Surface Transportation Board vice chairman Robert Primus, who is seeking to serve a second term on the STB. “During his current term, Mr. Primus has demonstrated an expert understanding of the economic state of the railroad industry, including widespread service and staffing issues,”…

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