The contract rejection by the IBB, one of the smallest rail unions, comes in the final week of voting for tens of thousands of engineers and conductors.
The deal, struck with the unions on September 15 to prevent a national strike, is a sellout, reached in flagrant violation of the will of railroaders who voted nearly unanimously to authorize a strike.
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U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has formally asked federal regulators to conduct a Chicago area-specific review of a massive railway merger proposal. "The draft (environmental statement) only considered 28 grade crossings across the entire country, none of which are in Illinois," he said. "Between Elgin and Bensenville alone, there are 54 crossings."