Railway Workers Fight Shows Need for Paid Sick and Family Leave, Says Economist

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Railway Workers Fight Shows Need for Paid Sick and Family Leave, Says Economist
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'It staggers the imagination that in September 2022 the workers who keep the trains running did not have even one sick day to care for themselves,' says ceprdc's EileenAppelbaum.

"It staggers the imagination that in September 2022 the workers who keep the trains running did not have even one sick day to care for themselves."With paid time off for family and medical leave—and the glaring lack thereof—taking center stage Thursday as the Biden administrationa tentative agreement to avert a crippling railway strike, a leading progressive economist underscored the need for paid leave in the only country in the developed world that doesn't guarantee it.

"Top brass at the railroads were willing to have a strike and plunge the nation back into supply chain hell." "It staggers the imagination that in September 2022 the workers who keep the trains running did not have even one sick day to care for themselves," Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research,"Railroad management was intransigent on this point, a key union demand, until President [Joe] Biden got involved in the negotiations," she continued.

"The details have not been made public yet," said Appelbaum,"but it appears that railroad workers will get one—let me repeat that—one paid sick day a year." They had asked for 15. The average among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations is nearly 45 days of

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