Rail unions: companies can afford to give workers paid sick days
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Can Washington prevent a rail strike and keep the U.S. economy on track? |
| 0:06.4 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.2 | Congress now stepping in, going around labor union negotiations to try to prevent a |
| 0:13.9 | rail strike that President Biden says would devastate the U.S. economy. |
| 0:17.4 | But might this get planned, get derailed? |
| 0:21.3 | If you're passing the bill to force the rail workers to work, how strong is your economy? |
| 0:30.9 | And this hour, a consequential and controversial vote on same-sex marriage, |
| 0:35.7 | legislation drawing criticism from both the religious right, |
| 0:38.8 | and the LGBTQ community. |
| 0:40.9 | Plus, how DNA evidence helped a couple find their missing daughter 51 years after she was kidnapped. |
| 0:48.8 | We'll show you their reunion. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome to the Lean Object App, when we start today with our money lead, |
| 0:58.1 | a potentially catastrophic rail strike looks like it might be avoided at least for now, |
| 1:03.2 | top Republicans and Democrats met with President Biden at the White House earlier today. |
| 1:07.5 | They seem to agree on legislation that would block a walkout by more than 100,000 union workers |
| 1:14.7 | forcing them to stay on the job. |
| 1:16.7 | Those workers are pushing for paid sick leave after having worked through the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 1:21.9 | They say a deal made earlier this year to avoid a strike between their leaders and rail companies, |
| 1:27.5 | false short of basic labor rights. |
| 1:30.2 | And now President Biden is facing criticism on Capitol Hill from both sides of the aisle |
| 1:34.3 | for ignoring those workers' needs. |
| 1:38.3 | They're going to come to Congress and they're going to ask Congress to intervene and actually |
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