{"id":36622,"date":"2022-07-15T07:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36622"},"modified":"2022-07-15T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:37:49","slug":"another-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/15\/another-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This caught me by surprise:<\/p>\n

Nearly 100% of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen members have voted in support of a nationwide strike, which BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce is calling \u201ca showing of solidarity and unity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Mediation Board (NMB) on June 14 set in motion a 90-day-maximum time clock toward a national railroad shutdown.<\/a>\u00a0It released\u00a0BLET<\/a>\u00a0and 11 other rail craft unions (bargaining in two coalitions collectively representing some 115,000 rail workers) from\u00a0NMB<\/a>-guided mediation with most Class I freight railroads and many smaller ones, ending attempts to negotiate, voluntarily, amendments to existing wage, benefits and work rules agreements.<\/p>\n

This triggered a \u201ccooling off period,\u201d which is set to expire at 12:01 a.m. EDT on July 18, 2022. At that point, self-help is available to the parties, unless President Joe Biden appoints a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act. A PEB would halt any strike or lockout by the parties, and would investigate and issue a report and recommendations concerning the dispute. [Railway Age<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Possible impacts? xaxnar of Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em> has some thoughts<\/a> on the matter.<\/p>\n

And this? Not really related. Just a pic from our visit to the Minnesota Transportation Museum\u2018s<\/strong><\/em><\/a> St. Paul location a few year’s back.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

No, it’s not a denizen of Hell getting loose. At least, I don’t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This caught me by surprise: Nearly 100% of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen members have voted in support of a nationwide strike, which BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce is calling \u201ca showing of solidarity and unity.\u201d The National Mediation Board (NMB) on June 14 set in motion a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36626,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36622\/revisions\/36626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}