If they do it and picket any such shipments I’m expecting a brutal reprisal from the police. That said I applaud those pushing for it.
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I’ve seen a lot more goofy statements like this, to the point that it feels purposeful. Find a small article that’s growing, about a topic that people are interested, and make totally incorrect statements about “Dems” and then just shuffle off when challenged on them.
Democrats wholeheartedly support unions, advocate for the rights of workers, and support the rights of the people, whereas Conservatives do not. They take a more business-oriented stance that fights against unions, providing better results for business owners.
I mean, Biden did intervene on the rail strike, and with bipartisan support force a contract upon the workers. So i don’t think democrats are pro union when it’s time to put up or shut up. It’s important to note that this and genocide is a both sides issue. The main difference is democrats are less right wing. But still not left wing
He stopped their strike to avoid crippling the US economy and kept supporting the unions in their contract negotiations until the unions got the sick leave they were asking for.
From the IBEW:
“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.”
How were the other demands of the rail workers addressed though?
Show me a union source from when this was all happening that lists these other demands
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I don’t know where you got that I’m siding with the billionaire class with my direct quote from a fucking involved union. Jesus fucking christ bro
Strike breaking is a terrible precedent. It makes sure the workers know power comes from above and not from below, which is where it should come from, sucking the power and energy from organizing, which is necessary for when there are less friendly presidents out there.
Yup they got sick days for the office workers. The guys who are actually close to the metal are still as fucked as they were before the strike.
Source?
Still don’t have 2 person engineer teams…
Only 1 union has paid sick leave agreements with all class 1 carriers
Some railroads use a points-based attendance system. While each points-based system is different, they all provide employees with the flexibility to take reasonable amounts of time off, the ability to earn credits for regular attendance and a way to challenge attendance-related actions that they believe may have been unwarranted.
-American Association of Railroads (They represent the corporations) admitting they’re still using the attendance system that started all of this in the first place.
Lies…the Dems voted through the anti-union legislation stopping the railway workers from striking and Biden signed it. Dems only play at being pro-union until it hurts the Capitalist class too much. To deny this is lying to yourself and everyone.
And whenever you look further in the comment chain you realize, that the image people have of the Dems and their actually policies and behaviour are vastly different. The Dems are a right to far right party by any normal countries standard. They just managed to gaslight the american people into accepting them as the “lesser” of two evils and believe that to be the best they can ever hope for. Meanwhile the “lesser” evil grows bigger and bigger at every election.
The person who came closest to winning as a third party was a racist former VP running on a campaign of upholding slavery despite any ruling SCOTUS made. Look it up. No alternate candidate has any hope of winning.
I bet it is easier to get to leftism under an administration like Biden, dead wrong but “students have a right to protest,” vs. any Repub, dead wrong and also “send in the National Guard to get these students” or “nuke Gaza.”
Also the Repubs did an insurrection and want to stop votes from counting ever again.
The Dems are a right to far right party by any normal countries standard.
Except on social issues, but who cares about those? And they used to be left of European parties when it came to immigration, but they’ve recently moved closer to the xenophobic European position. Oh and they’re very clearly left of Labour now too.
By the way, would you like to clarify what you mean by “normal countries”? I’m assuming here that you meant European, since that’s generally what people mean, but it’s pretty fucked up to say that normal = European, don’t you think?
Normal countries include all democracies around the world. You will find social democrats, greens, socialists and sometimes even communists there next to conservatives, neoliberals and fascists. The Dems are neoliberals/conservatives with some LGBT rights sprinkled in, but their social policies are deeply antisocial and often racist. Their immigration policies are fascist with running internment camps and building border walls. Their economic stance is fuck the poor, but only so much that there is still some white middle class left and their foreign policy is murder everything that is not aligned with their economic and power interests, as we see with the current genocide.
All of this is right to far right by normal standards, except the gay rights, but even deeply catholic Ireland managed to get same sex marriage before the US.
The base does. The leadership just pays lip service.
The leadership works behind closed doors to pressure the companies to give the unions what they want, judging from the rail workers.
They got just enough to say they did that. The rail workers are actually something like 10 unions. The companies gave half of them their demands so everyone could take a victory lap. The worst abuses and safety violations were never addressed.
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Ah yes, the Republicans will surely be more amenable to negotiating with the various labor organizations within our country in a civilized manner.
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I guess we should expect more political anti-union rhetoric soon.
Anti-union rhetoric? Surely you aren’t implying that US politicians have ever done that
Coming soon, another anti-union bill passed by Congress and signed by Biden (the supposedly pro-union guy).
Based.
But if even the railroad workers weren’t allowed to strike Biden will send in the national guard and shoot everyone that won’t be complicit in Genocide with him.
The NG doesn’t even give live rounds to 90 percent of their soldiers for riot control. They’d get sent in yes, but it would be pepper spray, shields, and batons. Which are bad enough.
