Two unions negotiating contracts for almost 60,000 workers at major U.S. freight railways on Sunday said those employers are halting shipments of some cargo to gain leverage ahead of this week's deadline to secure labor agreements.
"They are locking out their customers ... and further harming the supply chain in an effort to provoke congressional action," Jeremy Ferguson, president of the transportation division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers , and Dennis Pierce, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen , said in a joint statement on Sunday.
The brinkmanship comes at a sensitive time for unions, railroads, shippers, consumers, and President Joe Biden - who appointed an emergency board to help break the impasse. Widespread railroad disruptions could choke supplies of food and fuel, spawn transportation chaos, stoke inflation, and cause $2 billion per day in lost economic output.As of Sunday, 8 of 12 unions had reached tentative deals, the National Railway Labor Conference said. Those groups do not include SMART-TD and BLET, which represent about half of the 115,000 workers affected by the talks.
"Railroads do not believe a national service interruption is inevitable but the time has arrived when certain customers will begin to be impacted if agreements are not reached," the Association of American Railroads said of the industry's decision to pause hazardous shipments.Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Aurora Ellis
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