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Unions Press Biden for Executive Order Mandating Railroad Workers Receive Seven Days Paid Sick Leave [1]

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Date: 2022-12-02

Just a brief diary before I head off to work, Salon had an interesting article online this morning, www.salon.com/...Apparently organized labor is gearing up to press Biden to issue an executive order mandating the railroad companies guarantee their workers seven days paid sick leave. I know this has been discussed in other diaries, but Obama’s 2015 executive order mandating that federal contractors provide seven days of paid sick leave did not apply to the railroads, i.e. the industry was exempted.

Here are some highlights from the article:

* The Intercept's Ryan Grim wrote ahead of the votes that an unnamed "railway union source said that the next phase of the fight would be a demand that Biden include rail workers in a coming executive order that would mandate 56 hours of paid sick leave for federal contractors."

* Progressive activist Jacqueline Anne Thompson urged Biden on Twitter to "sign an executive order guaranteeing seven days paid sick leave for ALL employees nationwide for any company with 50 employees or more."

* Another Twitter user quipped: "If you want to take an 11-dimensional chess view, getting Congress to pin the contract to a 24% raise and an average $16k bonus before Biden takes the paddle to the railroads via executive order would be a pretty sweet move indeed."

Hopefully, Biden will do the right thing and issue the executive order.

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