1 min read

Season 3, Episode 238

Redmond: Sick leave for all workers should be required by law

AFL-CIO-Logo_400x400

 

Guest Name:


Fred Redmond

Guest Website:


aflcio.org

Guest Social Media:


Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

LinkedIn

Supportive Documents:


AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and discussed the effort by Congress to avert a railway strike and the need for all workers to have access to paid sick leave.

At the time of the interview, a bill to impose the tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement on the railroad unions, including four who voted to reject it, had passed the U.S. House and Senate and was awaiting President Biden’s signature. Another bill to that would give railway workers seven sick days passed the House, but stalled in the Senate. 

It is a difficult situation, but the CBA is the best contract railroad workers negotiated in years and includes a 24 percent pay raise over five years, Redmond said. The proposed CBA will improve the lives of railway workers, but the fight for paid sick leave continues, he added.

Redmond believes businesses will come to realize paid sick leave is an essential benefit to retain employes. He decried that the U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not mandate paid sick leave for workers.

Redmond also talked about the Georgia run-off election and his expectations for what Congress can accomplish during the lame-duck session. 

Listen to the entire episode to learn more about these topics.


America’s Work Force is the only daily labor podcast in the US and has been on the air since 1993, supplying listeners with useful, relevant input into their daily lives through fact-finding features, in-depth interviews, informative news segments and practical consumer reports. America’s Work Force is committed to providing an accessible venue in which America's workers and their families can hear discussion on important, relevant topics such as employment, healthcare, legislative action, labor-management relations, corporate practices, finances, local and national politics, consumer reports and labor issues.

America’s Work Force Union Podcast is brought to you in part by our sponsors: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Government Employees, American Federation of Musicians Local 4, Alliance for American Manufacturing, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes-IBT, Boyd Watterson, Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council, Communication Workers of America, Mechanical Insulators Labor Management Cooperative Trust, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local 50, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Crafts, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 6, Ironworkers Great Lakes District Council, Melwood, The Labor Citizen newspaper, Laborers International Union of North America, The National Labor Office of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, North Coast Area Labor Federation, Ohio Federation of Teachers, United Labor Agency, United Steelworkers.

SUBSCRIBE ON:

Group 342

Group 341

Group 343

Group 339

Group 397

Group 397

 

Central Ohio's tech boom has building trades poised for growth

Dorsey Hager, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council (C/COBCTC), joined the America's...

Read More

Energizing and organizing are the priorities for the AFL-CIO in 2025

Fred Redmond, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the labor movement's path forward....

Read More

Best of 2024: Michael F. Sabitoni, LIUNA, on building union solidarity

As part of our Best of 2024 series, we revisit the July 11 interview with Michael F. Sabitoni, General Secretary-Treasurer of the Laborers'...

Read More