{"id":123662,"date":"2022-09-16T01:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-rail-labor-deal-hammered-out-over-sandwiches-and-baked-ziti"},"modified":"2022-09-16T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T01:11:24","slug":"u-s-rail-labor-deal-hammered-out-over-sandwiches-and-baked-ziti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-rail-labor-deal-hammered-out-over-sandwiches-and-baked-ziti","title":{"rendered":"U.S. rail labor deal hammered out over sandwiches and baked ziti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh kept railroads and unions at the bargaining table for 20 hours, fueled by sandwiches and baked ziti, to clinch a make-or-break labor deal early Thursday. With President Joe Biden insistent and the U.S. economy in the balance, there was no room for failure and no time for a traditional style of negotiations with rounds of document exchanges, he said in an interview. &#8220;I wanted to get this deal done,&#8221; said Walsh, a former Boston mayor who canceled a trip to Ireland and speech to Irish legislators to broker the talks. After more than two years of negotiations, railroads and unions faced a 12:01 a.m. Friday deadline to reach a contract and avoid a rail shutdown. That would cost the U.S. economy $2 billion daily by stranding critical goods, closing factories and paralyzing industries and travelers. The talks began in a conference room and ultimately ended up in Walsh&#8217;s office for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh kept railroads and unions at the bargaining table for 20 hours, fueled by sandwiches and baked ziti, to clinch a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,377,42,43],"class_list":["post-123662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-economy","tag-labor-issues","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}