© 2026 All Rights reserved WUSF
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Our daily newsletter, delivered first thing weekdays, keeps you connected to your community with news, culture, national NPR headlines, and more.

As rail workers fight for paid sick leave, millions of Americans still go without

Tell us your story about fighting for sick leave here.

Joe McCartin, the executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University talks with Here & Now‘s Robin Young about the fight for paid sick leave.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Tags
Thanks to you, WUSF is here — delivering fact-based news and stories that reflect our community.⁠ Your support powers everything we do.