Statement by President Joe Biden on Tentative Railway Labor Agreement
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proposals and we were able to accomplish. we wrapped up by about 3:30. the next two hours was about reading the documents and getting signatures on them. secretary walsh, you tweeted about how catastrophic a rail strike could have been for this economy and the supply chain issues that are already so prevalent in our economy. talk us through what that would have looked like and how close we were to that happening. to be honest with you, you think about what we ve gone through in the last two years with the pandemic and getting the economy up and running again, if the strike were to happen, the projections were about $2 billion in lost revenue every day in goods and services going across the united states of america. potentially 30,000 workers laid off outside of what was going to be on strike. so we were close. but to having real troubles, but we had two committed sides that wanted to get a deal done. this negotiation has been going on for over two years. the president put together