Pres. Biden took a political victory lap after railway companies and unions reached a tentative labor agreement overnight — averting a strike that threatened to paralyze the nation's supply chain and transportation rail service.
September 15, 2022, 12:17 PMPresident Joe Biden speaks about a tentative railway labor agreement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sept. 15, 2022, in Washington, D.C. From left, Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, Biden, Celeste Drake, Made in America Director at the Office of Management and Budget, and National Economic Council director Brian Deese.
President Joe Biden speaks about a tentative railway labor agreement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sept. 15, 2022, in Washington, D.C. From left, Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, Biden, Celeste Drake, Made in America Director at the Office of Management and Budget, and National Economic Council director Brian Deese.Before delivering remarks, Biden met with the negotiators who brokered the railway labor agreement in the Oval Office.
President Joe Biden meets with the negotiators of the railway labor agreement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2022.The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Trainmen and the SMART Transportation Division -- the two largest rail unions and the final remaining union holdouts -- confirmed the tentative agreement in a statement on Thursday.
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