"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:
It's distinct from chattel slavery but it is slavery nonetheless. If these workers choose to withhold their labor they will be compelled to return to work by fines, imprisonment, batons, and rifles. How can a person be considered free if they can be forced to sell their labor power, that is to work, on terms they explicitly did not agree to?