Railroad Strike Averted (For Now)
September 16, 2022 – After some cajoling from the Biden Administration and an all-night negotiating session, the leaders of the remaining holdout railroad unions joined with the nation’s freight railroads in agreeing on new contract terms for their workers yesterday morning, avoiding a nationwide railroad service disruption that would otherwise have taken place starting today. (No one is quite sure if it would have been a strike by the unions or a lockout by the railroads.)