The final agreement, that goes to President Biden’s desk, includes a 24% pay increase and flexible scheduling, but does not include a key worker demand for more paid days off. Efforts by liberal Democrats to include seven paid sick days in this agreement, and by Republicans to create a “cool down” period extending the contract negotiation deadline, did not get enough votes.

Reset gets the rundown from a politics reporter and a reaction from a rail worker union representative.

GUEST: Kurt Mullins, vice president of the Midwest Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

Ximena Bustillo, politics reporter for NPR’s Washington Desk