BREAKING: The Senate voted down a deal, 52-43 that would have granted rail workers 7 paid sick days.

This was the crux of the rail strike standoff. Railroad workers in the U.S. do not receive a single paid sick day.

Reaction from Tom Modica, rail mechanic in Chicago who got Covid 2x: “The fact that they are willing to force a contract down our throats to keep the railroads from shutting down means we’re important. But they get sick days, and we’re out here in the snow all day & we don’t'