{"id":522515,"date":"2022-09-16T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522515"},"modified":"2022-09-16T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:07:15","slug":"u-s-railroad-strike-averted-by-tentative-late-night-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/u-s-railroad-strike-averted-by-tentative-late-night-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. railroad strike averted by tentative late-night deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major U.S. railroads and unions secured a tentative deal after 20 hours of intense talks brokered by the Biden administration to avert a rail shutdown that could have hit food and fuel supplies across the country and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden announced the deal in a statement early on Thursday morning, calling it \u201ca win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to ensure that America\u2019s families and communities got deliveries of what have kept us going during these difficult years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tentative deal now goes to the unions to be voted on, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major U.S. railroads and unions secured a tentative deal after 20 hours of intense talks brokered by the Biden administration to avert a rail shutdown that could have hit food and fuel supplies across the country and beyond. U.S. President Joe Biden announced the deal in a statement early on Thursday morning, calling it \u201ca win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to ensure that America\u2019s families and communities got deliveries of what have kept us going during these difficult years.\u201d The tentative deal now goes to the unions to be voted on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}