Railroad labor unions representing the more than 13,000 industry employees working for Union Pacific and BNSF in Nebraska have been voting en masse to approve the latest collective bargaining agreement with the nation’s train companies.
Bargaining started in 2015 between 30 railroads and 13 unions representing 145,000 industry workers nationwide. The bargaining is to replace an expired contract. In the rail industry, expired contracts are automatically extended as long as progress on a new one is being made. The last labor-related work stoppage was in 1992.
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