BREAKING: Senate passes legislation forcing a labor agreement to try and avert a looming strike of the nation's railway workers.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters after meeting with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, Nov. 29, 2022.
At Biden's urging, the House on Wednesday passed a law enforcing the September tentative agreement plus separate legislation to add sick days for workers, which had become a major sticking point in the unsuccessful negotiations. “Workers who do difficult and dangerous work have zero paid sick days. Zero. You get sick, you’ve got a mark against you. Couple of marks, you get fired. This cannot and must not happen in America in 2022,” he said.
Biden said on Thursday that Congress would get a deal done to avert a railroad shutdown and that paid sick leave for those union workers would not be “within this agreement.”
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