Renewed concerns of a railway workers strike puts damper on recent White House festivities

One of the country's largest railway workers' unions rejected a contract brokered by the Biden administration. If no new deal is reached, thousands could go on strike in December and cause major economic problems. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang joins "Red and Blue" to discuss all the latest.

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[joeanderson]

The best option is for the government to write and fund workers rights laws and paid leave, and they should tax the big corporations to pay for them. We can't just stop the entire economy every time the owners and CEOs of large corporations don't want to take care of their workers. They should raise the wages pay higher taxes. People should also have decent hours and ability to take time off.

[MrVandj]

This is exactly why a strike needs to occur. It needs to hurt

[jman]

I stand with the workers! They are treated horribly! They cant even call in sick!

[ordiebox]

Why aren’t the railroads giving their workers sick

[drumtwoseven]

ITS NEVER GOOD TIMING WHEN IT COMES TO STRIKES

[robertbirch]

Transportation expert Mayor Pete will save us, after all that why he was hired, he's bringing up the rear

[charleshall]

Where are all those staunch republicans talking about Regan and air traffic controllers! You know critical infrastructure so on.a strike is not even possible

[chrisbammer]

I hope they all quit.
Then we'll see who needs whom more

[ashleymarie]

BS. Majority of engineers voted against but many never got their ballot or were enabled to participate as members.

Rigged vote. Union leadership tried their best to sell the TA to get it passed. Barely passed BLET by less than 1% margin and many didnt get to vote that wouldve voted no. Even after contacting the union relentlessly. They were ignored and left out to dry. If member doesn’t vote for whatever reason including union failure to send ballot to them, their vote is automatically counted as a “yes”. Same thing happened with IAM. Narrow margin but only 59% got ballots in time to even get to vote

[Cephalgod]

If its economically important, youd think youd fork over the pay raise. But nope. The fat cats refuse. Quaint.

[teresasmith]

Happy Birthday Mr. President 💃🥰❤️❤️❤️per Marilyn Monroe💃

[cyclonejunior]

Just another crisis on Joe's watch

[Mando_Trucker]

paid vacation, bonuses, plus $80, 000 plus annual salary, plus employer contributions to health insurance, plus 401k employer match, plus pension. I don't think companies are charities. Every year now they want more, Now they want paid sick leave.

[brbjk.m.]

These lazy rail workers better not strike,

[AFuller]

Rail died years ago, this will finally be the end.