Unions vote down contracts, renewing threat of rail shutdown
Big Mountain can be seen behind a BNSF train as it sits on the tracks in Whitefish. (Whitefish Pilot file photo)
For about 24 hours in September, railroads reluctantly put themselves in the national spotlight.
After years of fruitless negotiations with labor unions on a new contract, the industry was rapidly approaching a midnight deadline to avoid a national strike or lockout, which would have crippled an American economy already hobbled by record-breaking inflation, the lingering effects of the pandemic and a labor shortage...
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