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e_t_ Admin ,

Doesn't the broken-by-Congress railroad strike demonstrate that Biden, et al. have already chosen their side, and that it isn't labor?

uphillbothways ,
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“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.

blazera ,
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Its always IBEW

FMT99 ,

For who didn’t, it’s worth it to read the whole article. It’s this stuff that doesn’t make the news.

Ashyr ,

Thank you for posting this. I’m so tired of the rhetoric surrounding the rail strike.

Astroturfed ,

They didn’t allow them to strike. It doesn’t matter that they still helped the union negotiate. They kneecapped their bargaining power.

Zaktor ,

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.

ALoafOfBread ,

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.

Bartsbigbugbag ,

Less than 50% of what they were seeking though, it’s a concession, not a victory. They got 4 whole days, wow, such good.

ALoafOfBread ,

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.

Bartsbigbugbag ,

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.

CabbageRelish ,

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.

Viking_Hippie ,

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.

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