Taking quick steps to avert a rail strike, the US House of Representatives on Nov. 30 passed a measure to impose a rail labor deal brokered by the White House in September. But it also passed a competing measure that would add seven paid sick days to the deal to address union concerns. The Senate will now determine the fate of the bills. “I think that the House structuring their votes as two separate resolutions vastly improved the chances of something getting through the Senate,” John Ward, the executive director of the National Coal Transportation Association, said Nov. 30.
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