Unions vote down contracts, renewing threat of rail shutdown
A BNSF freight train at Whitefish Depot on Wednesday, Sept. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
For about 24 hours in September, railroads reluctantly put themselves in the national spotlight.
After years of fruitless negotiations with labor unions on a new contract, the industry was rapidly approaching a midnight deadline to avoid a national strike or lockout, which would have crippled an American economy already hobbled by record-breaking inflation, the lingering effects of the pandemic and a labor shortage...
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