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  • Heresy_generator@kbin.socialtounions@lemmy.ml•Janet Yellen Goes To Bat For Unions
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    2 years ago

    Nope, that’s not who we’re talking about because that didn’t happen:

    http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

    ‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: Hard-Fought Success on Rail Sick Days

    After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.

    This is a big deal, said Railroad Department Director Al Russo, because the paid-sick-days issue, which nearly caused a nationwide shutdown of freight rail just before Christmas, had consistently been rejected by the carriers. It was not part of last December’s congressionally implemented update of the national collective bargaining agreement between the freight lines and the IBEW and 11 other railroad-related unions.

    “We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

    “We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”

    It’s amazing how many people pretend to care about rail workers but don’t actually care enough to even follow the news without spoon feeding.