'Now let's get it through the Senate,' said RepBowman, who led the fight to add seven days of paid sick leave to a White House-brokered contract that failed to provide any to railroad workers.
for pressuring Congress to use its authority under the Railway Labor Act of 1926 to ram through his deal to preempt a looming strike.an amendment to add seven days of paid sick leave to the existing settlement on Tuesday night, progressives feared that House lawmakers would advance the White House-brokered pact without trying to improve it.
"Railroad corporations are raking in record profits—over $20 billion last year alone," said Omar."Meanwhile, their workers do not even have the basic protections of a single day of paid or unpaid sick time. In the face of these record profits, railroad workers have made a simple, dignified request for the basic protections of paid leave."
In a joint statement released in the wake of the House votes, 12 members of the upper chamber—including Sens. Bernie Sanders , Kirsten Gillibrand , and Elizabeth Warren —thanked Biden and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh"for their hard work in negotiating a tentative agreement that is better than the disastrous proposal put forward by the rail industry."For nearly three years our nation's rail workers have been fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic.
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