'Corporate Greed Is a Disease': Tlaib Delivers Fiery Speech in Support of Rail Workers

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'We cannot allow corporate greed to continue to kill workers and our families,' said RepRashida.

, then-President Barack Obama"issued an executive order on Labor Day 2015 that required federal contractors to provide their employees with seven paid sick days per year."

"All the rail companies have been federal contractors going back to the 19th century, moving freight and supplies on behalf of multiple federal agencies," Dayen and Meyerson wrote."But Obama's order was limited to workers whose wages are governed under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Service Contract Act, or the Davis-Bacon Act. Rail workers fall under a different law, the Railway Labor Act...

"We're gonna bring not only the rail unions together, but workers all over this country to demand the justice that is long overdue," the Vermont senator added.

 

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RepRashida Yada Yada yada.Yada.. your shtick is old

RepRashida 💯✊

RepRashida Let us know when she no longer follows a god, prophet and death cult that believes these things…

RepRashida Corporate greed, the Federal Reserve (government) just raised the Interest Rates again.. that’s kill the American Dream. Butt Hole Clowns

RepRashida Performative theater in the park.

RepRashida Unions in the railroad industry are among the oldest in the country starting in 1863, they even have a special, priority pension plan, yet you tell me they have never negotiated for paid sick time in the past 159 years? REALLY? BULL CRAP!

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