"The Senate voted on Thursday to reject a proposal to give railway workers seven days of sick leave, a benefit that was left out of a labor deal brokered by the presidential emergency board between freight rail companies and unionized workers."
:death-to-the-poor:
well the unions rejected the compromise their management gave them. the point of strikes is to jeopardize the profits of capitalists to receive better concessions. if they aren't allowed to go through with that because congress stopped them and forced them to accept sub-par (or in this case, zero) concessions, then nobody was actually "helped"