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Senate Votes to Impose Rail Contract, Rejects Measure Granting Workers 7 Paid Sick Days
Breitbart ^ | 12/01/2022 | Nick Gilbertson

Posted on 12/01/2022 3:40:47 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to pass a resolution imposing a contract on freight rail workers but rejected a concurrent measure that would give workers seven guaranteed paid sick days.

H.J. Resolution 100 passed the Senate by a margin of 80-15, surpassing the 60-vote threshold. The Biden Administration brokered a tentative deal in August between the unions and carriers, but rank-and-file members of four of the twelve unions in the deal rejected it. Paid sick leave for workers was a central hold-up to the deal moving forward.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: contact; days; rail; senate; sick
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1 posted on 12/01/2022 3:40:47 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Silly rail workers ! Dirt people don’t get paid sick leave only elite gubmint workers , heh .


2 posted on 12/01/2022 3:52:41 PM PST by David Moser
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So they (Congress) tell the rail workers they have to go back to work with no Sick Days each year ... this coming from people who spend half or more of their time on vacation.

I foresee a “slow down” in rail transport coming very soon.


3 posted on 12/01/2022 3:55:38 PM PST by CapnJack ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Republicans suck at politics


4 posted on 12/01/2022 3:55:43 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope the union members are paying attention and realizing finally that it’s always all about the oligarchs who already have most of the money. It’s never about the people like they always claim.


5 posted on 12/01/2022 3:59:33 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: David Moser

And the union idiots will keep voting for democrats.


6 posted on 12/01/2022 4:00:08 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

congress made the law. Let congress enforce it.

(How many congressional idiots can drive a train?)


7 posted on 12/01/2022 4:00:52 PM PST by farmguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope they still strike. Tell the eff’n government to go to hell.


8 posted on 12/01/2022 4:05:21 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who are the 15?


9 posted on 12/01/2022 4:07:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: SomeCallMeTim
Republicans suck at politics

This. To quote Golda Meir (in another context, of course), the Republicans "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

10 posted on 12/01/2022 4:11:09 PM PST by DSH
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would like to see a list of their current benefits.

If they are getting 6-8 weeks of PTO, it should be known.


11 posted on 12/01/2022 4:19:40 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yup, The Biden Grinch (Binch?) saved Christmas.

And unions members will continue to vote D despite getting screwed.


12 posted on 12/01/2022 4:21:51 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Work to rule. Slow down the train until you run out of hours and abandon said train in an inconvenient spot. (happened to my folks in Utah and I found a train blocking the road for me one day.)


13 posted on 12/01/2022 4:21:57 PM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: David Moser

only CONgress and their peasant goober mint workers get paid sick leave, because of their hard physical work they do screwing the tax payer out of their money.


14 posted on 12/01/2022 4:25:20 PM PST by davidb56
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To: dynachrome

It happens all the time around here, blocking roads in a close by town.


15 posted on 12/01/2022 4:31:20 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Republicans suck at politics


Republicans vote against the settlement, they get blamed by everyone for the resulting rail shutdown. They vote for it, dems/FJB get credit for saving the economy. They were/are in a no-win situation.

Be interesting to see what happens next as far as the railroad workers are concerned. Management/labor relations in the rail industry have be very bad for well over a century.


16 posted on 12/01/2022 4:39:02 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: ConservativeInPA

If they strike now that Congress has passed their imposed contract, it will be considered a Wild Cat strike (I heard this mentioned on the radio yesterday).

In the United States, wildcat strikes have been considered illegal since 1935. Trade unions have the power to bargain collectively on behalf of their worker-members and call for strike action demanding concessions from employers.

Under the 1935 NLRA (National Labor Relations Act), federal courts have ruled that wildcat strikes are illegal, and that employers have the right to dismiss workers who participate in them.

https://marketbusinessnews.com/financial-glossary/wildcat-strike-definition-meaning/


17 posted on 12/01/2022 4:45:00 PM PST by Qiviut (I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: davidb56

goober mint workers get paid sick leave
/\

Not only that

Any unused sick days can be used for early retirement.

( x nte180 fed employee )


18 posted on 12/01/2022 4:48:51 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I get the feeling there’s more to this story than is being written.


19 posted on 12/01/2022 4:50:43 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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Do rail workers deserve 7 days of paid sick leave per year?


20 posted on 12/01/2022 4:51:08 PM PST by Izzatso
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