Reported by Ted Mann for Bloomberg
First it was the railroads. Then the autoworkers. Then the machinists on the airliner production line.
If Joe Biden thought planes, trains and automobiles was enough labor strife for one presidency, the longshoremen of the United States would like a word.
The fences are mostly mended between the Biden administration and the rail unions. Top US officials leaned on major railroads last week to begin offering paid sick leave to their workers rather than wait for the issue to be hammered out in collective bargaining. That garnered an immediate cheer from Greg Regan, the head of the transportation trades department at the AFL-CIO, who praised what he said was “an all-hands effort, from the workers and their unions to these federal agencies.”