JUST IN: The largest freight rail union voted down a work contract brokered by the Biden administration.
A Union Pacific freight train carries cargo along a rail line at sunset in Bosler, Wyoming, on August 13, 2022.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
The agreement gives workers a 24% raise over five years, an additional personal day and caps on health care costs. It also includes some modifications to the railroads' strict attendance policies, allowing workers to attend to medical needs without facing penalties for missing work. "SMART-TD members with their votes have spoken, it's now back to the bargaining table for our operating craft members," said SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson in a
Roughly 30% of freight moves by rail in the U.S. — everything from chlorine to cars to corn. The Association of American Railroads estimates that a nationwide rail shutdown could cost the country $2 billion a day in lost economic output. At a series of town hall meetings over the last month, union leaders refrained from telling engineers and conductors how to vote but warned that if they rejected the contract in favor of a strike, the matter would be out of their hands.
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