Comment on UAW strike would show Biden, other leaders that it's time to 'pick a side,' union boss says

e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• uphillbothways@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “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.

  source

  • FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    source
  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    source

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      source

      • Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Libs are just as deaf to criticism of their party as conservatives are.

        A successful rail strike would have emboldened the working class, whatever the administration did after doesn’t negate the damage they did to the working class by stopping it.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

      source
  • blazera@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its always IBEW

    source
  • CabbageRelish@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    source
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    source
• Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Media cycles have broken people’s memory.

  source