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Decision to ask congress to intervene, warning that moving forward without more paid sick time will, quote, worsen supply chain issues and further sicken, infur rate, and disenfranchise rail workers. david? >> this is a rare move. well be watching this. mary, while we have you, the other developing story in washington, former president trump now reacting, just moments ago, to republican leaders who today, a week after trump had dinner at mar-a-lago with kanye west and a known white supremacist, ...

Floor. nobody wants the economy to fail. nobody wants this to happen. but this is another situation where an administration told us one thing, just like they told us about inflation was transitory and we found it was not. this was a negotiation that was selected by this administration. this was something that was celebrated by this administration that it was fixed and now right before holiday season, right when farmers need to ship their goods and others, we have to rush something to the floor. ...

Which would afgt hundreds of thousands of rail workers throughout this country would have a real impact on the supply chain right now heading into the holidays. affecting everything from coal and lumber to chlorine to cars and other goods that are shipped across the country by train. the trucking association even in the last several days saying it would take almost half a million new trucks, additional trucks on the road to make up for that gap if it were to happen here. but again, the bottom li...

Strike that would put more pressure on an already incredibly shaky supply chain just ahead of christmas. as we just heard, about 30% of cargo that moves by rail that would be completely shut off and the consequences would be immediate and immense. to replace those rails you would need half a million trucks, which is near impossible right now considering our already existing trucker shortage. the problems jamming up the supply chain after president biden touted successful negotiations that ultima...

Online safety bill will be put before parliament in early december. laura trant, bbc news. across the uk, public sector workers are voting to strike over pay, with industrial action planned by rail workers and nurses in the run up christmas. the government has said it can only pay workers what is affordable. but with uk inflation at forty—year highs, politicians are coming under pressure to promise pay deals which match the cost of living. today the transport secretary, mark harper, told the b...

Because we know that every train operating company has a clause in its contract written by the government on dispute handling, but the unions do not know what is in it. labour has said it wants to see people paid fairly, but it has not said it would commit to inflation—matching pay increases if in government. youre asking me to commmit - to a specific number without having been invited into the negotiations and seen the books. _ what i can tell you is we think- it is unconscionable nurses and ...

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Anti—government protests in china against strict covid restrictions are spreading, with some demonstrators calling for the countrys leader, president xi, to go. the transport secretary, mark harper, says any pay deal for striking rail workers is dependent on them agreeing to reforms of the network. energy suppliers are being asked by the business secretary to make sure direct debit payments reflect customers�* actual energy use and dont become inflated when people are cutting back on gas or ...

Approach from the government, in tone at least. but unions still want assurances that ministers aren�*t pulling the strings. they dont know whether the companies have authority, have been empowered to genuinely, in good faith negotiate a deal, so what we are hoping for from mark harper is a letter so what were hoping for from mark harper is a letter to the unions setting that out and being clear — not just about facilitating the deal, but what the governments role in settling it is. labour h...

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