US House Passes Legislation to Avert Rail Strike

The U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 30 passed legislation that would impose an agreement on rail unions that are poised to strike and also approved adding paid sick leave to the pact.
The House agreed, in a 290–137 vote, to impose the tentative agreement that multiple unions have rejected, despite opposition from some of the unions. In a separate 221–207 vote, the House added seven days of paid sick leave to the agreement.
Congress is allowed to take such action under the Railway Labor Act; it last took action to prevent a shutdown in 1994.
Seventy-nine Republicans joined all but eight Democrats in voting for the measure. Three Republicans joined all but one Democrat, who did not vote, in approving the paid sick leave provision….}