When was the last rail strike in the United States? The last industry strike took place in 1992, when railroad workers with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers walked off the job.
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A rail strike could have frozen almost 30% of U.S. cargo shipments by weight, stoked already surging inflation, cost the American economy as much as $2 billion a day, and stranded millions of rail passengers.
Aslef is staging a combination strike and overtime ban for the start of September. Train drivers walked out on Friday 1 September and are refusing non-contractual overtime on Saturday 2 September – coinciding with the latest RMT strike.
Train drivers' strike. Aslef members working at 16 rail companies will strike on Wednesday 4 October in their long-running dispute over pay. The union is also implementing a ban on working overtime from Monday 2 to Friday 6 October.
August 2023. The ASLEF union took action short of a strike which affected some train operators from Monday 31 July to Saturday 5 August and Monday 7 to Saturday 12 August which involved ASLEF members withdrawing from working overtime during this time.
Last fall, many union railroad workers in the United States did not have paid sick days. Now, more than sixty percent of them do, Reuters reports. It has been a process of slow, piecemeal wins over many months—and a testament to the continued push of high-profile politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).