Biden announced early in the morning

The US railway workers are brewing a national railway strike with a "30 -year seeing", and it will come.

U.S. Minister of Labor Walsh on the 14th negotiated with the freight railway company and the unions representing tens of thousands of workers overnight, trying to avoid this strike that could cause economic turmoil.

In the early morning of September 15, local time, Biden announced that under the coordination of Walsh, after night negotiations, freight railway companies and unions representing tens of thousands of workers reached a preliminary agreement to avoid strikes that may cause economic losses. Essence

According to the New York Times, the agreement was subsequently submitted to the union members to vote, which is a standard procedure for labor negotiations. At present, the voting statistics are completed, and the workers have agreed not to strike.

The negotiations of Walsh's mediation began on Wednesday (14th) and lasted 20 hours. A person familiar with the matter said that Biden called around 9pm that day and issued a long statement on the 15th to welcome the agreement.

"The preliminary agreement reached tonight is an important victory for our economy and the American people. This is the victory of thousands of railway workers. Family and communities are transported, so that we continue to move forward in these difficult years. "

The White House did not announce the details of the agreement immediately.

Earlier, this strike that was treated with workers had been brewing for a long time. In July of this year, due to Biden's intervention, both parties to the union and railway system entered the "calm period" of 60 days. As workers ask the company to improve their work conditions, including allowing workers to ask for no salary leave to see a doctor, negotiations are in a deadlock.

The U.S. Railway Association (AAR) warned that once the strike occurred, nearly 30%of the domestic railway system in the United States would fall into a pause, and the economic loss caused by each day may be more than 2 billion U.S. dollars, and further caused the shortage of retail products and the large -scale shutdown of the manufacturing industry. And unemployment. Although some analysts believe that the loss brought by the big strike may be maintained at the beginning of tens of millions of dollars per day, as the number of strikes increases, damage to the US economy will "increase geometrically."

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Source: Observer.com/Zhao Nuoya

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