U.S. Senate votes to impose labor agreement on rail workers, averting strike
How are workers reacting?
The final agreement, that goes to President Biden’s desk, includes a 24% pay increase and flexible scheduling, but does not include a key worker demand for more paid days off. Efforts by liberal Democrats to include seven paid sick days in this agreement, and by Republicans to create a “cool down” period extending the contract negotiation deadline, did not get enough votes.
Reset gets the rundown from a politics reporter and a reaction from a rail worker union representative.
GUEST: Kurt Mullins, vice president of the Midwest Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
Ximena Bustillo, politics reporter for NPR’s Washington Desk
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U.S. Senate votes to impose labor agreement on rail workers, averting strike
How are workers reacting?
The final agreement, that goes to President Biden’s desk, includes a 24% pay increase and flexible scheduling, but does not include a key worker demand for more paid days off. Efforts by liberal Democrats to include seven paid sick days in this agreement, and by Republicans to create a “cool down” period extending the contract negotiation deadline, did not get enough votes.
Reset gets the rundown from a politics reporter and a reaction from a rail worker union representative.
GUEST: Kurt Mullins, vice president of the Midwest Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
Ximena Bustillo, politics reporter for NPR’s Washington Desk