Libs are just as deaf to criticism of their party as conservatives are.
A successful rail strike would have emboldened the working class, whatever the administration did after doesn’t negate the damage they did to the current labor movement by stopping it.
A successful rail strike would have emboldened the working class
And other jokes I tell myself to beat back the existential dread…
Seriously tho, it would have shutdown a shit ton of manufacturing for a while, and that would cause prices to skyrocket AGAIN. And do you really think the majority of Americans are smart enough to see that its workers fighting for their rights? No. They are going to bitch and moan and blame Biden anyway. Meanwhile I’d probably be out of a job as we barely survived the shortages from covid and another this soon would put us out of business. Think beyond your own goals, appreciate that what you feel is the right thing, could end with many losing their jobs. That is a burden that many cannot weather. Was it the ideal solution? No. But there is no such thing beyond fantasy. Besides, Brandon got them the stuff they wanted in the end anyway.
I’m not a Marxist (or a communist at all, for that matter), but if anyone needs the perfect example of the lumpenproletariat participating in their own oppression by believing the lies of their oppressors, this is it.
Also no. Biden didn’t get them shit. He appointed better people than himself on the advice of better people than himself. Only thing he did personally was use his influence to take away their right to strike.
This union didn’t vote to strike. They were fine with the original agreement without sick days and didn’t have anything taken away in the congressional strike breaking.
Source: union trying to spin a measly 4 sick days in an entire year as a complete victory while giving Biden oversized credit for merely APPOINTING the people who did all the work.
While he DOES deserve a little credit for appointing good pro-union people to the relevant posts, this wasn’t his doing.
The only thing HE did personally was use his influence as president to effectively strip them of their hard won right to strike by forcing them to (provisionally, but still) accept a bad agreement from his owner donors in the corrupt rail industry.
Not a union that had and still has strike-worthy grievances, or a major union within the railroad industry. Has made a great pro-Biden press piece though.
Yep. I was hoping someone would comment this. He didn’t want to take an economic hit right before the midterms, so broke the strike but also essentially made the reailroad give concessions.
When people strike, they do not unyieldingly demand 100% of what they asked for initially. It is a negotiation. They negotiate. While 50% is not ideal, it is progress and pretty decent concessions.
Less than 50%, 28% to be precise. That’s just the sick days, if we include all the other things they were asking for, they got less than 10% of what they asked for.
For who didn’t, it’s worth it to read the whole article. It’s this stuff that doesn’t make the news.
Thank you for posting this. I’m so tired of the rhetoric surrounding the rail strike.
They didn’t allow them to strike. It doesn’t matter that they still helped the union negotiate. They kneecapped their bargaining power.
Libs are just as deaf to criticism of their party as conservatives are.
A successful rail strike would have emboldened the working class, whatever the administration did after doesn’t negate the damage they did to the current labor movement by stopping it.
And other jokes I tell myself to beat back the existential dread…
Seriously tho, it would have shutdown a shit ton of manufacturing for a while, and that would cause prices to skyrocket AGAIN. And do you really think the majority of Americans are smart enough to see that its workers fighting for their rights? No. They are going to bitch and moan and blame Biden anyway. Meanwhile I’d probably be out of a job as we barely survived the shortages from covid and another this soon would put us out of business. Think beyond your own goals, appreciate that what you feel is the right thing, could end with many losing their jobs. That is a burden that many cannot weather. Was it the ideal solution? No. But there is no such thing beyond fantasy. Besides, Brandon got them the stuff they wanted in the end anyway.
How do you take yourself seriously.
Why do you take yourself seriously?
Because I learn from labor movements of the past and how to apply what worked for them to our current situation.
Okay, and? Congrats on reading your history books.
I’m not a Marxist (or a communist at all, for that matter), but if anyone needs the perfect example of the lumpenproletariat participating in their own oppression by believing the lies of their oppressors, this is it.
Also no. Biden didn’t get them shit. He appointed better people than himself on the advice of better people than himself. Only thing he did personally was use his influence to take away their right to strike.
This union didn’t vote to strike. They were fine with the original agreement without sick days and didn’t have anything taken away in the congressional strike breaking.
Its always IBEW
Source: union trying to spin a measly 4 sick days in an entire year as a complete victory while giving Biden oversized credit for merely APPOINTING the people who did all the work.
While he DOES deserve a little credit for appointing good pro-union people to the relevant posts, this wasn’t his doing.
The only thing HE did personally was use his influence as president to effectively strip them of their hard won right to strike by forcing them to (provisionally, but still) accept a bad agreement from his owner donors in the corrupt rail industry.
Not a union that had and still has strike-worthy grievances, or a major union within the railroad industry. Has made a great pro-Biden press piece though.
Yep. I was hoping someone would comment this. He didn’t want to take an economic hit right before the midterms, so broke the strike but also essentially made the reailroad give concessions.
Less than 50% of what they were seeking though, it’s a concession, not a victory. They got 4 whole days, wow, such good.
When people strike, they do not unyieldingly demand 100% of what they asked for initially. It is a negotiation. They negotiate. While 50% is not ideal, it is progress and pretty decent concessions.
Less than 50%, 28% to be precise. That’s just the sick days, if we include all the other things they were asking for, they got less than 10% of what they asked for.
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