Bill Shuster: “With regard to the potential national railroad strikes, as of early this morning, labor and management have reached…”

“With regard to the potential national railroad strikes, as of early this morning, labor and management have reached agreement on all the outstanding disputes, thereby averting the possibility of a shutdown and averting the need for congressional intervention. We are extremely pleased about this. The parties reached a voluntary agreement. The House and Senate, the White House, and the Department of Transportation made it very clear that labor and management should work out their differences on their own. They did that. Labor and management deserve great credit for having done it. The bipartisan effort created an environment in which this agreement could be reached and a national rail strike averted.”