Pressure builds to drop union labor on Dulles Rail

The airports authority in charge of building the Metrorail line to Washington Dulles International Airport must drop its preference for union labor if the Silver Line is to become a reality, federal, state and local officials agreed Wednesday.

Officials turned up the pressure on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to back down from its insistence that union labor be used at a meeting U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood organized with officials from MWAA, Virginia, Metro, and Fairfax and Loudoun counties.