As a strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers looms, Bernie Sanders is calling on multibillionaire and owner of a parent company involved, Warren Buffett, to listen to workers’ demands and intervene to avert the strike.
. “During the pandemic, Mr. Buffett became $36 billion richer. He must ensure that rail workers receive decent wages and safe working conditions.”agreements as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Carriers’ Conference Committee , which represents railroads in negotiations, but there are still a number of negotiations pending involving the largest unions.
Though it is unlikely that Buffett would heed Sanders’s call, it underscores the players of the looming strike, which the unions saycorporate greed and “extortion,” as two of the largest unions involved, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen , Teamsters Rail Conference and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Transportation Division, said in a joint statement on Sunday.
“All we’re asking is folks to be able to go to routine doctor’s visits without pay, but they have refused to accept our proposals,” Pierce said to. “The average American would not know that we get fired for going to the doctor. This one thing has our members most enraged. We have guys who were punished for taking time off for a heart attack and COVID. It’s inhumane.”
If workers are pushed to strike, it will have major consequences for a large range of industries covering basic needs like
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