Joe Biden Stuck Between Union Agenda and an Economic Crisis – By Nick Reynolds (Newsweek) / Sept 12, 2022
Joe Biden vowed in a speech last September to be the most “pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history.”
Biden’s position is about to receive its first major test as several of the nation’s top railroad unions appear poised to strike at the end of the week, placing Biden in a vise between the organized labor interests he swore to uphold and a recovering economy that has arguably saved his party’s chances in the upcoming midterm elections.
On Monday, two of the nation’s top railroad unions—BLET (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen) and SMART TD (International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers)—told CNBC they would refuse to accept any deal with their members’ railroad carriers unless quality-of-life issues like vacation, sick days and attendance policies were addressed.
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