Is there a coming rail strike?

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Are America’s railroads barreling toward a shutdown, practically weeks before the midterm elections?

That real possibility was created when the National Mediation Board issued a news release on June 17 announcing that “pursuant to the Railway Labor Act, the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) and the twelve unions noted below were released by the NMB from statutory Mediation.”

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