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For all the attention that Rubio and company rightly received, too few of their Republican colleagues joined them to secure paid leave for rail workers.

These latest strikes going ahead. the next national strikes involving the rmt union, about 40,000 rail workers across the country, are due to begin on the 13th of december, in just nine days. now, today for the first time the group representing the train companies side of the dispute have made an offer to unions, to the rmt. now, they describe that as a framework where essentially there would be a 4% pay rise for this year, backdated, and a 4% pay rise for next year. however, that would depend o...

In the run up to christmas. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin explained what the company had offered the union. there have been lots of negotiations happening over the past few days and the weekend to see if anything can be agreed to prevent these latest strikes going ahead, the next national strikes involving the rmt, about rail workers, are due to begin in 90 days. for the first time the group representing the train companies signed the dispute and they have made an offer to the rmt, the...

Which represents train companies — aimed at preventing strikes in the run up to christmas. our transport correspondent katy austin explained what the company had offered the union. there have been a lot of negotiations happening over the last few days, over this weekend, to try and see if anything can be agreed to prevent these latest strikes going ahead. the next national strikes involving the rmt union, about 40,000 rail workers across the country, are due to begin on the 13th of december, i...

A nationwide rail strike that couldve cost the economy an estimated two billion dollars per day. the final bill did not include the seven paid sick days that rail workers were demanding. president biden vowed to keep fighting for it. >> this bill does not have paid sick leave. these rail workers, and frankly every worker in america deserves this. this fight is not over. i support paid sick leave for a long time, and im going to continue that fight until we succeed. >> joining me now, secretary o...

Responsibility he has. i think were on track to do that. job growth is still good. inflation and gas prices are down to 3 -- an average in ohio, in my neighborhood in cleveland, $3.19, $3.29. thats down sharply from several months ago. were on the right track. weve got a lot of work to do. >> speaking of the right track, the senate passed legislation to avert a potentially devastating strike by rail workers. a push to include workers ease key demand for seven days of paid sick leave, that failed...

And here, some people say 24% raise with the rail workers. i wrote an article begging for my home state of new jersey to be the first state. if you want to test people, lets see what the jurors expressions were, what are you looking at, considering the -- get off my log. but south carolina mixed. this, finally, people of color are gonna be represented the way they should in our party. you know, black voters are the key component of the democratic base, plus others, but that is the core. so, i th...

Remedies, which means lower prices for furniture, cars, and electronics. gas prices also keep falling and could drop below $3 a gallon by christmas. earlier today, president biden signed a bill to avert a freight rail strike that he said could have plunged the u.s. into a catastrophic recession. house democrats had sent the senate legislation that would add seven days of paid sick leave to the deal. but every republican except for six plus one democrat, joe manchin, of course, voted against it. ...

Joe biden is senile, and the squad is running the show, and joe biden cant do anything. and so you start to believe your own bs after a while. and i think that that hurt the republicans going into the midterms. and another thing that has happened and they havent figured out a good countermessage on some of these bread and butter economic issues like what joe biden did right here. look, for example. as you said, there were six republicans in the senate, only three in the house that voted for this...

Personal day for workers. but no paid sick time. if we all workers dont go to work, americas kids will not get shipped. that sounds like an essential worker to me. dont they deserve the dignity of the paid sick time they so clearly have earned? here is what president biden had to say about the bill. >> i know this bill doesnt have paid sick leave. but these rail workers, and frankly every worker in america deserves it. but that fight isnt over. i didnt commit we were gonna stop this because we c...