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The one thing you need to know about the railroads

It's not that a rail strike would be bad for the economy

Robert Reich
Dec 01, 2022
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Depiction of the beginning of the 1877 Great Railroad Strike

Yesterday, the House approved legislation to avert a nationwide rail strike by forcing railroad workers to abide by a tentative agreement that the Biden administration helped broker earlier this year. (The proposal failed to win the approval of the workers at all of the unions involved.)

Later today, the measure was approved in the Senate. (The House als…

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