President Biden touts himself as an expensive buddy of labor unions, and he and Democrats in Congress have approved trillions of {dollars} in new spending and wage mandates on personal enterprise to show it. However we’re about to learn how a lot sway Mr. Biden actually has with Massive Labor because the White Home makes an attempt to go off a damaging nationwide strike by railway staff.
The menace has been constructing for a while, however an official “cooling off” interval ends at 12:01 a.m. Friday when unions may go on strike. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is making an attempt to barter a settlement, and most unions have agreed to beneficiant firm phrases advisable by a Presidential Emergency Board established in July by Mr. Biden.
