American railway workers may conduct big strikes!

It is reported that in order to deal with railway workers' strikes that may occur after 00:00 on September 16th (Friday), several major US freight railway companies have begun to reduce freight services in advance.

According to reports, including the United Pacific Railway Corporation (UP), the Berlidon Northern Saint -Taifei Railway Corporation (BNSF), the US CSX Transportation Corporation and the Norfolk South Railway Corporation (NS), several major US -level freight railway companies, including the United States, Before 00:00 this Friday, a preliminary agreement with the union of about 60,000 workers, otherwise the trade union strike and employer's stop work will occur.

US Transport Statistics reports that nearly 30%of the United States' goods, including non -container goods, transport through train. According to the U.S. Railway Association estimation, if strikes occur, the US economy will lose about $ 2 billion daily and exacerbate the dilemma of the supply chain.

Because the two largest railway unions in the United States have not reached an agreement, and the union refuses to guarantee not to strike, the US Freight Railway Company issued a notice last weekend and has begun to formulate an emergency plan to ensure that it can be safely suspended when the strike occurs, and when the operation is recovered Can restart quickly.

Beginning on September 12, the railway company stopped accepting the transportation of dangerous goods and other safe and sensitive goods to ensure that when the strike occurred, such goods would not be left on unmanned trains or unsafe places.

In addition, some railway companies plan to implement additional restrictions, which may affect food suppliers and retailers that use multi -type transport services to connect ships, trains and trucks. The BNSF Railway Corporation serving the western United States said it will suspend the acceptance of refrigerated multi -type transportation; NS Railway Corporation, which serves the eastern United States, said that it will suspend all multi -type transportation goods.

It is reported that American industrial groups are putting pressure on the US Congress to avoid the worst situation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said that the suspension of railway services across the country will have a huge impact on the country, which will lead to waste of rotten food, disturb the transportation of goods, and hinder the transportation of fuel and chemicals.

US food, energy, automobiles and retail groups also call on the US Congress to intervene, saying that railway suspension may threaten all aspects of cargo transportation from global food supply to Christmas holidays.

The National Grain and Feed Association said that when railway strikes occur, American farmers are harvesting corn, wheat and soybeans to export to all parts of the world. "The economic loss of the entire food and agricultural supply chain will be rapid and serious."

In a statement, the BLET union stated: "Congress should be outside the railway dispute, and told the railway company to do what other business leaders did, and sit down and negotiate a contract accepted by employees."

In addition, the strike will also affect the operation of ports from all over the United States because a large part of the container is transported from the dock through the train, including the ports from Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York-New Jersey, Savana, Seattle-Tacoma and Virginia.

Gene Seroka, executive director of Los Angeles Port, emphasized the importance of avoiding strikes. "High -efficiency railway operations are essential to the Port of Los Angeles. Two -thirds of our goods leave Galiferia through the railway." Seroka said in a statement to JOC.