United States President Joe Biden has signed into law a joint resolution ending a labour dispute between the country’s railroad companies and its unions, forcing both parties to reach a deal that would mean higher wages for workers.The move halts a strike that was anticipated to start on December 9, as railroad workers push for better working conditions. Biden had said that a railroad strike would spell “real disaster” for the US economy, resulting in job losses for “as many as 765,000 Americans” within the first two weeks alone.But in a bill-signing ceremony at the White House on Friday, Biden opened his remarks by vowing to continue the fight for one of the rail unions’ key demands: paid sick leave. An amendment that would have added seven days’ sick leave to the deal failed to pass the US Senate on Thursday.
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