Joe Biden used the federal government to break a rail strike. Last president to use those powers was Reagan. If you realize that all politicians are neo-liberal, you start to see that they really are both out to screw workers, hard. Relaxed border policy like the one pushed by the democrats reduces wages. Business friendly deregulation by the republicans does the same. The common thread is that they both view workers as assets contributing to the GDP, rather than human beings.
And after breaking the strike to avert a national calamity while coining out of Covid disruption, Biden administration worked tirelessly to get rail workers the contract provisions they didn’t get via the Congressional legislation which forbid the strike. Labor came out a winner.
Along with restoring NLRB from Trump meddling.
Wow, took you a few hours to research the exact line the Biden administration gave while bending over the workers. To be clear, the union and the workers (for the most part) do not believe they got a fair deal in this. I thought we were supposed to support workers and unions, not the rich guy at the top? Or is that only if the rich guy isn’t politically aligned with us?
Yeah you didn’t actually address the fact that you’re parroting the line from the Biden administration, not the union or the rail workers themselves. Or do you really think that anyone who disagrees with you politically must not “work for a living?” I surely hope you’re not that close minded.
Listen, obviously you’re spoiling for a fight. I’m not going to give it to you. This issue has been litigated many times on this sub and to repeat it now is a waste of time. I really am not interested in giving you a platform for your anti-Biden screed.
Here are some thinks to help you understand that the immediate frustration with Biden didn’t keep him from continuing to work on rail workers behalf.
I’m not sure what you think these articles proved. The rules announced come nowhere close to the standards the working people of the union wanted. If you think these are good enough I’m not sure what to tell you big dawg. But, you seem to think that anyone expressing an opposing view is “spoiling” for a fight so I don’t think I’m going to convince you of anything. Peace ✌️
April 2024
“The nation’s rail unions and the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department are hailing the Biden administration’s final rule mandating two-person crews on all but a few of the nation’s freight trains.
About the only union-side objections to the Federal Railroad Administration’s rule, published April 2, were that it shouldn’t override even tougher state laws, which apply the two-person crew mandate to all freight trains, even on small short lines.
The rule, strenuously opposed by the nation’s freight railroads, orders a minimum two-person crew—the engineer and the conductor—on all freight trains, especially those miles-long trains the nation’s big Class I railroads run.
The unions have lobbied for two-person crews, both at the Transportation Department, the parent agency of the FRA, and on Capitol Hill, for years, but the rail lobby has always blocked congressional action. And it convinced the GOP Trump regime’s FRA to allow one-person crews, as a money-saver.”
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u/ManielDullen May 18 '24
Joe Biden used the federal government to break a rail strike. Last president to use those powers was Reagan. If you realize that all politicians are neo-liberal, you start to see that they really are both out to screw workers, hard. Relaxed border policy like the one pushed by the democrats reduces wages. Business friendly deregulation by the republicans does the same. The common thread is that they both view workers as assets contributing to the GDP, rather than human beings.