Comment on Record national strike wave swells as 300,000 hit the picket lines
GALM@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Keep going! The writer’s strike succeeded and I believe the UAW strike will too. It’s a fucking crime that the rail workers didn’t go on strike, Congress be damned.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
And miss me with that “b… but Biden came back and negotiated sick days for them!” Horseshit. He got them a pitiful FRACTION of the days they asked for, and didn’t address any of their other demands whatsoever. Such as ending Precision Scheduled Railroading, which may have been a factor in the East Palestine disaster.
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 8 months ago
You wouldn’t have support for the UAW, writer’s, and Kaiser healthcare strikes, if the rail strike caused the general public to go without power and water. Blame the idiot people who favor their comfort over other people’s lives, same as it ever was. But you absolutely would have seen the public turn against strikes, if that had happened.
And of course they walked away with only part of what they came in asking. That is how negotiations work.
The only thing I came away feeling from the whole situation is that if those rail services are so critical to the basic functioning of this country that we can’t afford a strike and the government needs to step into negotiations, then we should be nationalizing this industry. Period. It should not be permitted to be in the hands of a corporation.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
They got what, 4 days out of 15 they asked for and nothing else? He’s not a good negotiator.
Rail strikes are common in a lot of the world and they seem to do just fine.
And in any case, the strike doesn’t have to be all or nothing. They can do limited and partial strikes. They could do some days on and off.
This “oh the economy would’ve imploded and thousands would die” narrative is probably partially coming from industry propaganda.
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 8 months ago
The US is the third most populous and fourth largest country in geographic area in the world. We’re genuinely far more dependent on rail freight for basic functioning than countries that have had rail strikes.
(Which is why we should nationalize the rail system.)
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
Yeah, the neoliberal horde is coming. They’ve already mostly taken over .world 🫤
GALM@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It blows my mind that Biden/Congress didn’t give the workers all of their completely reasonable demands if they were able to give them even SOME of their sick days. It is completely obvious how fucked those workers are treated and the disasters that can follow because of it and all we heard about was, “BuT mUh EcOnOmY!!!” Enjoy East Palestine you completely idiotic fucks, it’ll keep happening.