Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg jetted off for a vacation in Portugal as government and union negotiators worked to avert a nationwide rail-worker strike earlier this year.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg jetted off for a vacation to Portugal as government and union negotiators worked to avert a nationwide rail-worker strike earlier this year. The secretary’s previously unknown “personal trip” to the city of Porto was taken just a week before Amtrak announced the cancellation of long-distance routes in anticipation of a strike, the“The secretary took a long-planned personal trip from Aug.
29 to Sept. 5,” a Department of Transportation spokesperson told multiple outlets. “As usual, while traveling on personal time he remained available and engaged on urgent issues, which in this case meant multiple calls with staff and stakeholders to work on the topic of rail labor negotiations.”Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took a vacation as government and union negotiators worked to avert a nationwide rail-worker strike earlier this year.Biden administration negotiators were eventually able to reach a tentative agreement with eight of the 12 rail-worker unions on Sept. 15, and Congress forced the deal upon all of them earlier this month. On Sept. 1, while still on vacation, Buttigieg posted a video of himself on Twitter that implied he was at a US airport. The former South Bend, Indiana mayor was wearing a suit and touting the DOT’s new Airline Customer Service Dashboard in the video. President Biden cited the “hard work” of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, and Buttigieg when the
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