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Rail unions turn to arbitration in dispute over BNSF rules

FILE - A BNSF railroad train hauling carloads of coal from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming is seen east of Hardin, Mont., on July 15, 2020. BNSF’s two largest unions will ask an arbitrator to throw out the railroad’s strict new attendance policy they say pressures employees to show up when they are sick or fatigued instead of appealing a court order preventing them from striking. The unions that represent 17,000 BNSF workers said Wednesday, March 23, 2022, they decided that arbitration will provide the quickest resolution to the dispute. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF's two largest unions will ask an arbitrator to throw out the railroad's strict new attenda…