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We’re gonna need a longer list…
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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.”
“Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.
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Great news, great effort. I appreciate a lot of what Biden and Co. are doing, but they’re doing much of it so quietly. I wish they could trumpet their aims, efforts and successes more loudly, and that the media, such as it is, would also pay that all more attention.
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Unfortunately, effective administration is boring (at least, according to media companies), catastrophes and scandals are exciting! If one runs a media company (and there’s the problem), the last thing you want is effective government.
I would fully support a reorganization of news media to make journalism a publicly-funded enterprise with news staff independent from outside influence and funding.
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Beau’s coverage of this story highlights the ways people worked hard to change how the military handles sexual assault cases and this is the result of their efforts:
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Funny (not) how much news about Tromp STILL overshadows good news like that.
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EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime
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Archive version: https://archive.ph/eU7s2
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“House GOP blasts appointment of Hunter Biden special counsel”
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I assume that means Baylor is getting zero federal funding, right? Right!?!
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