The railroad ’empire” – not for workers!! … “The robber barons are the railroad companies and unlike 80 percent of this nation’s labor workforce, rail workers are not guaranteed a single paid sick day. If they’re sick and need to take a day off, then they have to eat a vacation day. And even then, they have to give advance notice. Basically, they have to clear it with their boss if it’s OK to catch the flu next week.”
In an article for New York Magazine, Eric Levitz wrote, “For months, the world’s largest economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse because America’s latter-day robber barons can’t comprehend that workers sometimes get sick.”
The robber barons are the railroad companies and unlike 80 percent of this nation’s labor workforce, rail workers are not guaranteed a single paid sick day. If they’re sick and need to take a day off, then they have to eat a vacation day. And even then, they have to give advance notice. Basically, they have to clear it with their boss if it’s OK to catch the flu next week.
Railway workers have been threatening a strike and President Biden has now negotiated for rail workers a 24 percent pay increase by 2024, annual $1,000 bonuses, and a freeze on healthcare costs. But paid sick leave was left out. The president is not…
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