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I'm Carla Marie. And today is Thursday, September 15th, 2022.

The Core 4. The four headlines you need to know. A rail worker strike that could hit as soon as

Friday morning would cause issues all over the country. For the first time in 30 years, we could see

rail workers around the country walk out on their jobs if their union and management don't come

to an agreement. These rails account for

40% of all long-distance freight in the U.S. Things that will be affected, basically everything. Fuel,

harvested crops, even retail goods. We could see many grocery staples missing and even issues

for holiday shopping when it comes to retail

items. And it's not just freight having issues. Amtrak has already canceled all long-distance

passenger trains beginning today as they use many of the freight rails for their trips.

A strike of this magnitude could cost the U.S. economy more than $2 billion a day.

Now, why are rail workers striking? Staffing shortage is and has been an issue. Between 2018 and

2020, the rail industry lost 40,000 jobs. Train companies have eliminated the conductor role and

replaced it with a piece of technology, leaving engineers to run trains completely by themselves,

which they say is unsafe and compare it to having one pilot fly an airplane. Rail workers are also

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