President Biden signed into law a contract deal rejected by four rail unions because it lacks paid sick days. It left many rail workers feeling as if Biden had turned his back on them.
"It's very frustrating," says Weaver, a railroad carpenter since 1994."Here is America's essential workers — rail workers. We have no paid sick days. It's disgusting."Four of the 12 freight rail unions, collectively representing more than half of the 115,000 freight rail workers covered by the deal, had voted down the agreement, citing the lack of paid sick days as a primary reason.
"It feels like President Biden ushered this in a little too early," says Weaver."He kind of cut us off at the knees on our ability to have some real negotiations or real change after voting no." "In future negotiations, the carriers are going to remember that and use it against us," says Murtagh."It's going to be even harder for us to negotiate a fair contract because they realize when it comes down to it, there's not going to be a strike."Murtagh says guys in his shop felt especially disillusioned thinking back on Biden's decades in the Senate, when he'd take Amtrak home to Delaware every night.
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