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Policy Backgrounders

CED’s Policy Backgrounders provide timely insights on prominent business and economic policy issues facing the nation.

Potential Rail Strike

November 30, 2022

On Monday, the President urged Congress to pass legislation that would avert a rail shutdown by imposing a proposed contract from September that several rail unions’ members had rejected. Railroad and union leaders had reached the September agreement with recommendations from a Presidential Emergency Board, but the tentative agreement was subject to ratification by union membership.

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