Norfolk Southern announces paid sick leave agreement with Mechanical railroaders

Norfolk Southern announced that it has reached an agreement with another one of its labor unions to provide their members the ability to take up to seven paid sick days per year. The new paid sick leave benefit will provide these employees four new days of paid sick leave while also offering them the ability to more flexibly use three additional days of existing paid time off as sick leave. This agreement was reached in collaboration with the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers and is available immediately to approximately 200 Mechanical railroaders. The announcement follows Wednesday’s agreement reached with the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees to extend paid sick days to 3,000 Engineering craft railroaders who work for Norfolk Southern. These announcements come on the heels of last year’s agreement reached during national bargaining to provide historic wage increases and premium health care benefits to union employees.