Bernie And Biden Step In to Avoid Railroad Workers Strike

President Joe Biden's administration helped negotiate a tentative deal on to avert a railway strike that could have wrecked the U.S. economy. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

Read more HERE: https://www.cnn.com/economy/live-news/railroad-strike-union-deal-09-15-22/index.html

"There will be no freight railroad strike early Friday. But the threat of a strike has not gone away entirely.

The tentative deal reached after a marathon 20-hour bargaining session between the railroads and the leaders of the engineers and conductors union still needs to be ratified by rank-and-file union members for it to go into effect.

The details of the ratification vote have yet to be set, but it is likely weeks away. Although the unions’ leadership described the agreement as a negotiating win, a successful ratification vote is not yet assured. And some union members appeared to criticize the deal on social media.

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