The typical Democratic party solution is to throw a pile a money at a problem isn’t going to work. The administration isn’t listening to the railroad workers plea.
Money is NOT the issue.
It’s same day, unscheduled sick leave without getting docked points that are nearly impossible to work off. Once a number of points are amassed you are mandatorily fired.
As a railroad worker, you can’t get sick or any of your family have a medical emergency without getting fired.
Absence Control.
Used to have that in the old Bell System.
With less than two years OTJ, sick pay didn’t start until the fifth consecutive day off. This worked down until you had 5 yrs and could get paid from the first day.
No matter how long you had OTJ, if you took 5 individual days off, each within 90 days of the previous, bye-bye.
Like everything else in life, we learned to live with it.