Railroad unions and their employers at an impasse: Freight-halting strikes are rare, and this would be the first in 3 decades

Railroad unions and their employers at an impasse: Freight-halting strikes are rare, and this would be the first in 3 decades The federal government sent troops to crush an 1877 rail strike. Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images   By Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island The prospect of a potentially devastating rail workers strike […] Source