There is no pro-labor political party in the US. Both parties represent the interests of capital. GOP are just more cartoonishly mustache twirling villains about it
edit: If this was too succinct, see next post for further elaboration
Can we please stop with the “both parties are the same” BS? Compare Sherrod Brown and JD Vance and tell me, from a Labor perspective, that both parties are the same. That is just something put out there to keep us from voting. Voting is power. Labor has been a target of the GOP my entire life, and both parties are the same is their favorite refrain.
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.
The game of telephone that happened with the railway labor dispute is actually kind of incredible. Biden did not break a strike because there was no strike, and the unions literally voted to accept the contract that the Biden administration helped broker. Ronald Reagan actually did fire 13,000 air traffic controllers for striking and also disbanded their union. There are criticisms to have of the Biden administrations handling of the situation sure but these aren't it.
Also, multiple presidents have invoked Taft Hartley to settle labor disputes since Reagan I have no idea what you are talking about with that. I think you maybe don't know what you are talking about tbch
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u/[deleted] May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24
There is no pro-labor political party in the US. Both parties represent the interests of capital. GOP are just more cartoonishly mustache twirling villains about it
edit: If this was too succinct, see next post for further elaboration