Sanders to Revist Rail Worker Paid Leave as Senate HELP Chair

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to introduce legislation that would give 125,000 railroad workers paid sick leave, revisiting an issue at the center of an 11th-hour deal to avert a nationwide strike last year.

Sanders will introduce a bill in the coming months that would require rail carriers to offer a minimum number of sick days on top of the flexible leave workers already get in the collective bargaining agreement enshrined by Congress, according to three people briefed on the plan.

Such a proposal could force Democrats to reopen a debate that put them at odds with organized labor and ...