News / 'Jittery time' for BCOs as prospects of labour contract settlements fades

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Hopes for a settlement in the contract negotiations in the US rail industry are on the wane.

And any agreement on the west coast port arena is receding into 2023, amid rising concerns about unrest in cargo labour relations.

The prospect of a smooth implementation of the deal between the railways and unions brokered by the Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) is dimming, after almost 61% of the members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS), which represents some 6,000 workers, rejected the ...