 Contractors seeking to work on a planned 300-mile-per-hour train from Washington, D.C., to New York will have to use union workers under a new agreement. The deal was signed by developers of the Northeast Maglev — Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail — and the North America's Building Trades Unions on Nov. 1 at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. Officials estimate that 74,000 construction workers would be hired during the construction process, and that 1,500 people would eventually be employed full-time to oversee operations of the train.
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