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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Potential rail strike that could shut down the economy

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

Thousands of railroad workers were potentially going to go on strike tomorrow, and that would

0:07.1

have had a major, major colossal hit to our economy.

0:13.0

Two billion dollars per day would have been impacted.

0:18.0

Rails are in charge of 1.6 million carloads of food every single year.

0:25.1

400,000 carloads of grain mill products, 350,000 carloads of beverages, 75,000 carloads

0:32.6

of meat products, soybeans, bird seed, everything.

0:37.0

The Rails affect cars, they affect energy, they affect agriculture, they affect retail.

0:44.3

A strike would have affected Amazon and Walmart, small businesses all over the country.

0:51.1

We've been affected by this.

0:52.7

So here's the thing on this, though, because these workers got a massive, massive increase.

1:03.0

They were asking for a 24% increase in pay.

1:05.7

And they got it.

1:06.7

Plus bonuses of $1,000 on additional paid leaves.

1:09.3

So what did they end up settling?

1:10.9

They got more than that.

1:11.9

And this is what people need to realize.

1:12.9

It's not about being an anti-worker.

1:14.7

This is about, and the Associated Press article that details this alludes to this, since Biden

1:20.3

got back in office, these union workers have felt highly emboldened, and the money comes

1:26.9

from somewhere.

1:27.9

It's no different than the government printing money.

1:29.5

So you can raw raw workers all you want, but you're going to be raw raw in it out of your

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