Today, President Biden heralded a tentative deal to avert a rail strike as “a win for tens of thousands of rail workers and for their dignity” and said it would avoid “significant damage” to the U.S. economy. Biden, joined in the White House Rose Garden by key negotiators, said the agreement brokered by his administration was evidence that labor unions and management could work together. Biden called in to the negotiations Wednesday night, a White House official said.
Biden is also hosting a White House summit Thursday aimed at combating the kind of hate-fueled violence that emerged at a gay nightclub in Orlando in 2016, a Walmart in El Paso in 2019 and a supermarket in Buffalo earlier this year. Aides said Biden will deliver a speech calling for a “whole-of-society” response at the United We Stand summit, where several new actions are expected to be unveiled, including some measures from technology companies to address hate-based content.
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To get a sense of what Biden may have felt about the (apparently averted) rail strike, consider what he said the last time the country faced a severe disruption of this kind. It was 1992, Congress forced workers back on the job. But the senator from Delaware voted “no.”
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