February 9, 2023 | News, Paid Sick Leave
Rail Labor representatives joined Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Senator Mike Braun (R-Indiana) at a press conference in Washington D.C. on February 9 to demand that rail companies provide workers with at least seven paid sick days. Senator Sanders said that...
February 9, 2023 | Headlines, Paid Sick Leave
(Source: Reuters, February 8, 2023) Top White House officials spoke to executives from the largest U.S. railroad operators in recent days, renewing pressure to reach an agreement to secure paid sick leave for workers after President Joe Biden signed legislation to...
February 8, 2023 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave, TTD
(Source: Progressive Railroading, February 6, 2023) Twelve rail labor unions of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, have adopted a resolution that calls for the nation’s freight railroads to give all railroad workers paid sick leave. The resolution...
February 8, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave, Unions
(Source: Associated Press, February 8, 2023) Several thousand workers at CSX will soon get one of the things that pushed the U.S. railroad industry to the brink of a strike last fall: paid sick time. CSX announced a deal Tuesday with two of its 12 unions, becoming the...
February 3, 2023 | News, Paid Sick Leave
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 3 — This month marks the 30th anniversary of the enactment of The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. BLET has had a long history of fighting to protect members’ rights under FMLA. In...
