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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Congress Intervenes To Avoid Railway Strike

The Fox News Rundown

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News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The House of Representatives today voted to avert a railway strike and make sure that rail workers and companies stick to an agreement they settled on in September. Business groups predicted that a stoppage would cause billions of dollars in losses a day. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Chad Pergram, FOX's Senior Congressional Correspondent, about action Congress took to avoid a strike and past examples of federal intervention in labor disputes. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Ashley Webster.

0:01.0

I'm Kennedy.

0:02.0

I'm Jason Chafetz, and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:08.6

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, I'm Evan Brown.

0:12.9

The House of Representatives steps in to try stopping a pending strike of freight rail

0:18.2

workers, which threatens supply chains, fuel spikes, and everything else we don't need.

0:24.0

But House Democrats didn't necessarily go along with the labor union's demands.

0:29.2

The political problem for the Democrats is that they are pro-labor, so they don't want

0:33.6

to be seen as stepping on labor's toes, especially when they can't come to an agreement.

0:38.7

This is the Fox News rundown, the evening edition.

0:48.9

I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News Contributor and Editor of the Transome.com Daily Newsletter, and

0:53.7

I'm inviting you to join a conversation every week, it's the Ben Dominic podcast.

0:58.1

Subscribe and listen now by going to FoxNewsPodcasts.com.

1:02.1

Not everything you buy is shipped around the country and diesel-powered big rig trucks.

1:07.9

So much food, fuel, water, farming fertilizer is sent via freight train, and if those

1:13.8

trains were to stop running, you could see prices skyrocket at supply levels drop.

1:19.9

The US House of Representatives is now stepping in to prevent a potential strike of rail workers.

1:25.8

The federal government has given itself power to intervene in certain labor disputes,

1:30.6

and it has done it before.

1:31.9

Let me give you some history lessons here first.

1:34.0

So in 1926, the House of Representatives and the Senate passed the National Railway Act.

1:40.5

And basically what they considered at the time that the railroad industry was so important

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