Senate Votes To Prevent Railroad Strike But Rejects Granting More Paid Sick Leave
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A bill to prevent a railroad strike is headed to President Biden for his signature, after it passed the Senate. The U.S. Senate gave its final approval today to impose a settlement on freight railroads and labor unions. The five year deal includes 24% pay raises. It passed with 80 to 15. Senators rejected a separate measure to grant seven days of paid sick leave to railroad workers.
Congress moved swiftly to head off a nationwide railroad strike. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to impose a compromise settlement on freight railroads and a dozen labor unions and approved more paid sick leave for rail workers. The measures now head to the Senate. Lisa Desjardins reports on some of the key issues in the dispute, in the video published on Nov. 30, 2022, by PBS NewsHour, as “House passes bills to stop railroad strike, give rail workers more paid sick leave“, below:
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen President Michael Baldwin discusses Congress’ involvement to avoid a rail strike, arguing a strike is the ‘last thing’ the industry wants, in the video published on Dec. 1, 2022, by Fox Business, as “Why sick time is a must-have for rail workers amid looming strike“, below:
President Biden is pushing Congress to block a pending nationwide rail strike and push through a contract deal that includes no sick days and is opposed by four of the 12 rail unions. Biden’s latest request is an attempt to “legislate us basically back to work, before we’ve even had a chance to strike,” says locomotive engineer and Railroad Workers United organizer Ron Kaminkow. “Workers should have the right to take off work for a reasonable amount for whatever reason they need it,” says labor professor Nelson Lichtenstein, who urges the rail workers to strike anyway, in the video published on Nov. 30, 2022, by Democracy Now!, as “‘Enough Is Enough”: Rail Workers Decry Biden’s Push to Impose Strike-Breaking Labor Deal“, below:
In our news wrap Thursday, a bill to prevent a railroad strike is headed to President Biden after it passed the Senate, but Senators rejected a separate measure to grant seven days of paid sick leave to workers, the Supreme Court will rule if the Biden administration’s plan for student debt forgiveness is constitutional and more cities in China loosened COVID restrictions after mass protests, in the video published on Dec. 1, 2022, by PBS NewsHour, as “News Wrap: Senate votes to prevent railroad strike but rejects granting more paid leave“, below:
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