U.S. rail strike averted, as major railroads and unions agreed not to strike

U.S. railroads and unions with tens of thousands of workers agreed to not strike but union members are enraged due to tough work conditions and are yet to ratify their agreement.
The deal includes 5 major operators which are BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific, representing 115,000 workers.
If the rank-and-file members of the different unions approved the tentative agreement, workers whose pay has been frozen since 2020 will have a 14.1% increase and seek certain types of medical care without fear of punishment.
Unions that rejected prior proposals, will now vote on the agreement yet if some of those votes were to fail again, a strike would not be immediate.

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