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. This is an enormous pleasure to be able to have time to panel this good at a moment in labor history, this significant.

We have Justin Rosniak for his first time on the podcast, who's co-host of, Well, There's Your Problem podcast, a show about engineering disasters to talk about the impending potential disaster that's happening with

this rail strike. Welcome, Justin. Hello, thanks for having me. We have returning to the podcast,

R.WU co-chair, Ross Groutens. I'm really looking forward to see what you have to say about this

vote that just happened about 20 minutes ago. Welcome back. Yeah, happy to be here, Bree.

And also returning to the podcast,

Maximilian Alvarez, who of course is the host of working podcast and the editor-in-chief of The Real News. Welcome back, Max. Thanks for having me, Bree. All right, let's start with you,

Ross. Because boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Let's start by you by reading off the statement from the rail workers, to which you contributed a quote, and which I got to say, makes everyone look kind of bad who isn't named Bernard, no middle name Sanders.

The statement starts, unfortunately, the most, in quotation marks, most labor-friendly president has opted to side with

big business and call for thwarting of railroad workers' right to strike.

On Monday, President Joe Biden called upon Congress to adopt legislation that would mandate a contract

and end the threat of any legally sanctioned rail strike from happening.

This, although railroad workers have voiced a deep

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