Welcome everybody to Crystal Kyle and Friends. Today we're going to be talking to Jonah

Ferman of labor notes and we're going to be talking about probably the biggest story

of the week, which is of course the rail deal. Yeah, by just betrayal of workers. Yeah,

it's okay. So just to give everybody the backstory and obviously we'll talk about all the

specifics with Noah. Well, when down is, what was it a month ago or a few weeks ago, there was

the threat of a rail strike and Biden intervened and they negotiated like a temporary deal to

avert the strike early push up potential strike date back. Now as part of that deal, they did get

pay raises, but the sticking point where there was massive disagreement was overpaid sickleave.

And there was either no paid sickleave in the deal or one day paid sickleave and they were

asking for like a week or two weeks or something like that. Yeah, understandably so. And so

the unions voted on it. Most of them actually voted in favor of the deal, but there were four

unions out of, I believe, 12 that voted against the deal. Right. And including the largest union

because, you know, it's wildly different how many workers, these different unions represent a

number of the ones that did vote in favor of the deal. It was very narrow. So there was clearly

a lot of unhappiness with this deal that was negotiated by the union leadership and the rail

bosses. So then the one way to stop the strike would be if Congress intervenes and basically votes

in favor of forcing them to take the deal. Now, the most weasley part of this though is Pelosi gets

on the on the floor of Congress and starts virtue signaling about how, oh, you know, this corporate

greed is out of control and we got to look out for the workers and all this stuff. And so what

she does is she puts two bills on the floor, one of them to force the unpopular deal, which wasn't

approved by the workers through. And then another one to grant seven days paid sickleave. Now,

for those of you who don't understand the ins and outs of politics, there's only one reason why

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