Two and a half months ago President Biden patted himself on the back for closing a rail labor pact that was a landmark "win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic" that had avoided a strike just before Christmas. This week, almost three weeks after the midterms, he had to turn to Congress to impose that same pact on 115,000 workers to avert "a potentially crippling national rail shutdown" just before Christmas.
What happened?
