{"id":75951,"date":"2022-09-08T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/?p=75951"},"modified":"2022-09-08T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:18:04","slug":"congress-must-act-if-rail-labor-negotiations-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/congress-must-act-if-rail-labor-negotiations-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Must Act if Rail Labor Negotiations Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-75953\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/railroad-strike.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/railroad-strike.png 755w, https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/railroad-strike-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 85vw, 510px\" \/>Rail carriers and rail labor have until September 16 to reach an agreement on compensation to prevent a lockout or strike.\u00a0 Both sides are in National Mediation Board mediation.\u00a0 Should these negotiations fail, the National Grange and thirty food and agriculture groups are asking Congress to intervene to prevent interruptions in rail shipments during \u00a0the fall harvest season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Transpottation-Letter-to-Hill-on-Rail-Labor-Dispute-ATWG-9-8-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the full letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rail carriers and rail labor have until September 16 to reach an agreement on compensation to prevent a lockout or strike.\u00a0 Both sides are in National Mediation Board mediation.\u00a0 Should these negotiations fail, the National Grange and thirty food and agriculture groups are asking Congress to intervene to prevent interruptions in rail shipments during \u00a0the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/congress-must-act-if-rail-labor-negotiations-fail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress Must Act if Rail Labor Negotiations Fail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-grange-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - 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