“In the first three quarters of 2022, “the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends” and CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave.”
What PolitiFact found
In the first nine months of 2022, the nation’s seven major railroad companies earned $21 billion in profits. The vast majority of the seven major railroads’ employees don’t have paid sick days.
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In short
Bernie Sanders (U.S. senator, I-Vt.) made this claim around 29 November 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 December 2022, 10 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
Where the claim appeared
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