'Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin have yet AGAIN failed working Americans by voting down seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers,' lamented RepBowman after senators nixed his resolution while voting to force a tentative agreement on rail workers.
"Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin have yet AGAIN failed working Americans by voting down seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers," lamented Rep. Jamaal Bowman.Speaking on the U.S. Senate floor Thursday before votes on a trio of bills affecting the nation's freight rail employees, Sen.
Six Republican senators voted for the sick leave measure: Mike Braun , Ted Cruz , Lindsey Graham , Josh Hawley , John Kennedy , and Marco Rubio . "I'm truly disgusted by their inability to care about workers," he added."They continue to put profits over people and it's sickening."on Twitter that"rail corporations have made money hand over fist, doubling profit margins and spending billions on stock buybacks. It's shameful the vast majority of Republican senators blocked essential rail workers from receiving guaranteed paid sick leave."that"it's not only about paid time off.
Kurtz asked Republican senators to"look at the irony of a situation" in which"the CEOs and the billionaires who run these rail outfits, who espouse the ideas of capitalism, and who would be apoplectic if the government came in and told them how to run the railroad" are"running to the government" for help.
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