I hope they strike anyway.
Republicans accuse Dems of ‘political stunt’ with attempt to add paid sick days to rail contract
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved Wednesday to add seven days of paid sick leave for railroad workers, against the wishes of President Biden, as Democrats sought to impose a labor agreement that would prevent a strike.www.washingtontimes.com
@Re-Raise why'd you downvote my homie.
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www.businessinsider.com
Is this really all just about sick pay or is this the narrative the Dems and the drive-by media are pushing?Three years of rail workers' negotiations with management over this issue could soon culminate in an economy-disrupting strike, after the latest tentative agreement included just one paid personal day off a year. That's too far from the 15 days of paid sick leave that rail workers pushed for, and which railroads argue would cost them $688 million a year.
"People are going to work with the flu, and working around very dangerous equipment sick because we have no time off," a BNSF railway conductor of over a decade told Insider. "When you're on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can't schedule a doctor's appointment or dentist appointment, take the day off for your wife's birthday. I mean, it's just made it nearly impossible to get any time off."
"People watched our industry shrink itself and watch the railroads demand more and more and more out of us, and discipline people for being sick or their family being sick," Michael Paul Lindsey, a locomotive engineer in Idaho who is a steering-committee member for Railroad Workers United, told Insider.
A battle over paid leave is threatening to grind the US economy to a halt
US rail workers want 15 days of paid sick leave, but companies offered one. A strike could disrupt travel, deliveries, and drinking water.
Sadly this is the case.
Send the Pinkertons in to break up the strike?
“It’s not everything I would like to see. I think that we should have paid sick leave,” Pelosi said. “Every country, every developed country in the world has it. We don’t. But nonetheless, we we have an improved situation. And again, I don’t like going against the ability of the unions to strike, but weighing the equities, we must avoid a strike.”
Too bad Washington doesn't go on permanent strike.
So Sean is applauding this.
So Sean was a snake after all. Glad I'm not at UPS anymore. And that I didn't vote for him (left just before the election, I actually got a ballot so I could have voted lol).
So now Goveement can dictate any raw deal they want. The company would be foolish to settle.
Railway Labor Act of 1926
under the Railway labor Act of 1926 The government can legally stop a RAILROAD strike.
