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Last union comes to terms with freight railroads (update from "DU2 brouhaha")
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Last union comes to terms with freight railroads
The last threat of a rail strike or lockout appeared to have disappeared Thursday afternoon.
The nation's freight railroads said they reached a tentative agreement with the 13th and last union, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, that had not already settled and ratified agreements with the railroads in the latest round of national bargaining for five-year contracts.
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"These agreements demonstrate that voluntary bargaining continues to work in the rail industry," A. Kenneth Gradia, chairman of the National Carriers' Conference Committee, the railroads' bargaining representative, said in a news release. "The carriers and the unions, with the critical support of the National Mediation Board, have resolved their differences, ensuring they will continue to work together to help drive America's economic growth today and in the future."
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A mandatory 30 day cooling-off period scheduled to end Dec. 6, 2011, went into effect after a Presidential Emergency Board made recommendations for a settlement intended to avert a national rail strike or lockout.....
Read more: http://journalstar.com/rail-unions-done-dealing-except-maintenance-workers/article_3eb39fd5-35bf-567c-b669-31119bdcd4bb.html#ixzz1lv2oeD6F
The last threat of a rail strike or lockout appeared to have disappeared Thursday afternoon.
The nation's freight railroads said they reached a tentative agreement with the 13th and last union, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, that had not already settled and ratified agreements with the railroads in the latest round of national bargaining for five-year contracts.
(snip)
"These agreements demonstrate that voluntary bargaining continues to work in the rail industry," A. Kenneth Gradia, chairman of the National Carriers' Conference Committee, the railroads' bargaining representative, said in a news release. "The carriers and the unions, with the critical support of the National Mediation Board, have resolved their differences, ensuring they will continue to work together to help drive America's economic growth today and in the future."
(snip)
A mandatory 30 day cooling-off period scheduled to end Dec. 6, 2011, went into effect after a Presidential Emergency Board made recommendations for a settlement intended to avert a national rail strike or lockout.....
Read more: http://journalstar.com/rail-unions-done-dealing-except-maintenance-workers/article_3eb39fd5-35bf-567c-b669-31119bdcd4bb.html#ixzz1lv2oeD6F
...The original "Obama is against labor!!11!" thread is here: Obama order blocks railroad workers strike. Says strike by 92,000 workers would damage the economy!
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Doesn't happen as often as it used to. 
