The House overwhelmingly passed legislation that would help avert a freight rail strike the White House fears could cripple the U.S. economy – 30 years after Congress last intervened in a looming rail shutdown.
between union leaders and freight operators. Four of the 12 unions representing rail workers have since rejected the deal, setting up the impending work stoppage.
"We must act to prevent a catastrophic strike that would touch the lives of nearly every family: erasing hundreds of thousands of jobs, including union jobs; keeping food and medicine off the shelves; and stopping small businesses from getting their goods to market," she wrote in a letter to fellow House members Tuesday night.
"It is outrageous that every developed country in the world has paid sick leave except the United States of America," she said. "No one should be at risk of losing his or her job by staying home when sick, needing to see a doctor or getting life-saving surgery." "We are here today because of the colossal failure of Joe 'Union' Biden, the president who has, by his own declaration, been the most union-friendly president in history," he said.
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