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I'm Ragulman Ovalin. It's Tuesday.

Today's show, President Joe Biden steps in to the railroad strike.

It's her Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

A quick history lesson back in 1992, two days into a crippling railroad strike,

done Senator Joe Biden came to the Senate floor and decried the lopsided nature of federal

labor laws dealing with the rail industry.

Laws that he argued essentially allowed corporations, regulators, and ultimately Congress

to run roughshod over workers.

At the time, he said, we need to restore a measure of balance to these negotiations,

before voting with just five other senators against halting the strike.

30 years later, as president, Biden is turning to those very same laws to prevent another strike

and impose a tentative contract agreement that his administration

brokered but multiple rail unions voted to reject.

The president said in a statement, as a proud pro-Labor president, I'm reluctant to override

the ratification procedures and the views of those who voted against the agreement.

But in this case, where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt

millions of other working people and families, I believe Congress must use its powers to adopt

this deal. Translation, it's a lot easier to be Union Joe, as one senator among 100, than it is

as president of the United States, especially during the holiday shopping season and a persistent

bout of inflation.

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