Democrats, friend of little people, crushes rail workers for demanding better working conditions.
Heil the party. Heil!
Corporate instructs Democrats to kill rail labor strike.
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President Joe Biden was in the unusual position Tuesday of being praised by business interests and attacked by his normal allies in the labor movement after calling for Congress to move immediately to block a strike by more than 100,000 union members at the nation’s freight railroads set for the end of next week.
The move was a serious setback for the unions, who say they needed the right to strike in order to get railroad management to negotiate over their major demand to give workers sick days that are not in the current contracts. They say the railroads, many of which reported record profits last year, are enjoying even stronger profits this year and can afford to meet the union’s demands.
Biden said he is sympathetic to the union’s demand, but he said a rail strike would cause too much economic damage and must be avoided.
Amid pressure on Congress to pass a bill that would avert a rail shutdown, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that he won’t back any deal that lacks support from rail workers.
“Just because Congress has the authority to impose a heavy-handed solution does not mean we should. It is wrong for the Biden Administration, which has failed to fight for workers, to ask Congress to impose a deal the workers themselves have rejected. I will not vote for any deal that does not have the support of the rail workers,”
WTF...
GP is so sad he can't foment a shipping crisis just before Christmas. Curses, foiled again.
Amid pressure on Congress to pass a bill that would avert a rail shutdown, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that he won’t back any deal that lacks support from rail workers.
Little Marco is just trying to throw sand in the gears. Republicans are focused on sabotaging the economy in any way they can until they can get back in office to make rich people richer.
Biden said he is sympathetic to the union’s demand, but he said a rail strike would cause too much economic damage and must be avoided.
This is so strange. You would think a Marxist Socialist like Biden would be out there protesting with the strikers. How can this be?
Biden is both a Socialist and a stooge for the capitalists.
This is so strange. You would think a Marxist Socialist like Biden would be out there protesting with the strikers. How can this be?Biden is both a Socialist and a stooge for the capitalists.
trufax
When you have a President of the United States who famously supports both Unions and Railroads and he goes in and scores a 24% raise, you should probably just take it. Yes, paid sick leave is important but a 24% raise helps cover that and the odds of you getting a better deal than the President before Xmas seem rather slim.
Gotta love Oral, Dart's resident paid corporate apologist!
odds of you getting a better deal ...
With friends like the Democrats, who needs enemies?
they can get back in office to make rich people richer.
Like Biden did as the rich people praised him for his courageous authoritarianism. All hail the uniparty.
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@Greyparrot
Well done Joe.
Unions are just political organisations that manipulate workers for political reasons.
And for sure, if you're genuinely sick you're genuinely sick.
Though over here in the UK being off sick is currently a metaphor for Christmas shopping.
The move was a serious setback for the unions, who say they needed the right to strike in order to get railroad management to negotiate over their major demand to give workers sick days that are not in the current contracts. They say the railroads, many of which reported record profits last year, are enjoying even stronger profits this year and can afford to meet the union’s demands.
…Republicans rejected a proposal to increase the number of sick days for railway employees from one day to seven, the Senate, by a vote of 80-15, ended fears of a strike that could have thrown hundreds of thousands of people out of work and brought the holiday shopping season to a screeching halt. Among Democrats, only Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia voted against including sick days in the labor agreement; all but six Republicans opposed the legislation”
It’s as if everything you say is factually incorrect
the Senate, by a vote of 80-15, ended fears of a strike
Democrat nays:
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Merkley (D-OR)
Sanders (I-VT)
Warren (D-MA)
So these are the only Democrats left that care about the working class. Noted.
Even Cruz sided with Bernie as the Democratic House sent up a shitbill to exclude sick pay.
Cruz and Sanders, who rarely have much opportunity to agree on anything, shared a fist bump on the Senate floor after the vote on the sick days. Sanders joked to Cruz: “I knew you were a socialist.”
“Nope. I’m not.” Cruz tweeted in response. “I just don’t agree with Biden & the Democrats voting to screw the union workers.”
Biden is both a Socialist and a stooge for the capitalists.
Or just the latter.
Are you not understanding? It was the Republicans that refused to include the sick days in the proposal.
Joe Manchin and all but 6 of the Republicans in the Senate voted against the sick days.
All the Democrats ( minus Manchin) voted for the sick days.
Doesn't matter. all but what was that list...5 democrats? voted FOR big business.
That's outrageous.
The unions would have been much better off if there was simply no vote so they could continue the strike and renegotiate the terms.
But nooo, Democrats (most of them) just had to vote to end the strike and take that option away from the union.
My question is really, why did only 4 or 5 Democrats obstruct the Republicans.... oh that's right. When it comes to corporate lobbyists, it is all one big uniparty with few exceptions (like Bernie Sanders)
This vote proves party affiliation doesn't matter vs corporate lobbyists. You may as well vote for a monkey and the result is the same.
Want to know how worried Washington was about a rail strike? Typically reliable union champions Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi successfully rallied rank-and-file Democrats to side with railroad execs over their workers.
You read that correctly: Biden decided the broader economy was a bigger priority than 100,000 freight rail workers having any paid sick leave in their next contract. After campaigning as the most pro-union presidential candidate in history, Biden signed into law a measure that makes a rail strike illegal.
So government shutting the economy down imposing lockdown mandates, printing money to fund proxy wars and cash-for-votes bills, and enforcing unwanted oil embargos: all acceptable for DC.
Striking workers?: not acceptable for Washington DC.
Rail workers now demand a third party after getting fucked over by the Uniparty.