On Monday, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (BMWED), which represents more than 11,000 workers who build and maintain tracks, rejected the tentative contract deal with a committee representing major US freight railroads.
BMWED officials said the rejection results in a "status quo" period where the union will reengage bargaining with the Class I freight carriers. The union said the member vote "indicates that there is a lot of work to do to establish goodwill and improve the morale that has been broken by the railroads' executives and Wall Street hedge fund managers".
Source: reuters.com
