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US Senate approves bill to avert rail strike by imposing labor deal on workers (www.washingtontimes.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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But Senators rejected a House-passed measure that would have added seven days of paid sick leave for more than 110,000 workers. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said the labor federation was “deeply disappointing that 43 senators sided with multibillion-dollar rail corporations to block desperately needed paid sick days.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really dissapointed in the outcome of the senate, yet again.

From the article:

The five-year deal that the Biden administration helped negotiate includes a 24% pay raise and $5,000 in bonuses. Because the pay raises are retroactive to July 2020, the average rail worker will receive back pay of about $11,000.

The passed bill is the absolute least that could be done. Still though, the workers need to keep fighting for an humane amount of sick days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, but there's one detail in the article I find weird if I may say so. It reads that the Biden administration "helped negotiate" a deal, but in fact they passed a bill. That's a far tougher (indeed, it's the toughest) level of reaching an agreement that has nothing to do with a negotiation.