I'm Samantha Sharers, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Tuesday,

November 29th.

Here are today's headlines.

President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to intervene with looming railroad strikes.

In a statement Monday, the president said I'm calling on Congress to pass legislation

immediately to adopt the tentative agreement between railroad workers and operators without

any modifications or delay to avert a potentially crippling national rail shutdown.

Biden added this agreement was approved by labor and management negotiators in September.

On the day that it was announced, labor leaders, business leaders, and elected officials

all hailed it as a fair resolution of the dispute between the hardworking men and women of

the rail freight unions and the companies in that industry.

According to CNN, an Anderson Economic Group analysis estimates a U.S. freight rail strike

could cost the U.S. economy $1 billion in the first week of the strike.

Rachel Gressler, a research fellow in economics budget and entitlements at the Heritage Foundation,

writes for the Daily Signal that, bound by the terms of a pre-COVID-19 pandemic contract,

railroad workers have felt overworked and undercompensated in recent years.

Gressler adds, policy makers should protect workers' rights to choose whether or not to

join a union via right to work laws and should end exclusive representation so that unions

do not have to represent workers who don't want their representation.

Under Bernie Sanders also weighed in on the potential railroad strikes and what Congress can do.

Let's take a listen to the Senator's comments via the Hill.

You have workers all over this country who work for the railroads.

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