A recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it?

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    CSX was the first to grant paid sick days to several of its unions and has now granted sick days to 61% of its 17,089 unionized employees.

    Union Pacific has granted sick days to 47% of its workers, Norfolk Southern to 46%, and BNSF, the largest freight railroad, to 31%.

    I guess only somewhere between 1/3-2/3 of workers are human and deserve sick days. The rest are animals. Or maybe robots, to be replaced when they fail from being overworked.

    An injury to one is an injury to all. Fuck this.

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      It does say the rest are (or were, at the time) work in progress. See: The IBEW, which were still negotiating at the time of writing this article but got their sick days when the other one was written.

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          I mean yes maybe but at what cost? Again, strikes aren’t good, especially those of essential service workers like rail workers. They’re something that’s sometimes unavoidable, but if there’s a way to resolve things without striking that’s what we should be doing. It’s just that most of the time the president doesn’t interfere on your behalf, so you gotta strike.

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            It’s already been a fucking year, how much longer is it going to take for the rest of the workers to get what they deserve?

            I’ll tell you! It will never fucking happen and you’re absolutely delusional if you think a strike isn’t necessary to force them to comply~

            This is fucking stupid, I’m done. You can have the last word, class collaborator.