United States Representative Donald Payne Junior (D-New Jersey) on Wednesday blasted the greed of executives in the privatized American railway industry who are refusing to grant paid sick leave and other benefits to their employees. A 2019 report in the American Journal of Transportation found that railroads “are USA’s most profitable industry with a 50% profit margin.” The non-profit organization More Perfect Union noted in September that those “windfall profits have come at the direct expense of their workforce. In the past two decades, operating profit margins nearly tripled for the major …
