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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.

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