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.
Comment on UAW strike would show Biden, other leaders that it's time to 'pick a side,' union boss says
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoThank you for posting this. I’m so tired of the rhetoric surrounding the rail strike.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
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.
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.
DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And other jokes I tell myself to beat back the existential dread…
Seriously tho, it would have shutdown a shit ton of manufacturing for a while, and that would cause prices to skyrocket AGAIN. And do you really think the majority of Americans are smart enough to see that its workers fighting for their rights? No. They are going to bitch and moan and blame Biden anyway. Meanwhile I’d probably be out of a job as we barely survived the shortages from covid and another this soon would put us out of business. Think beyond your own goals, appreciate that what you feel is the right thing, could end with many losing their jobs. That is a burden that many cannot weather. Was it the ideal solution? No. But there is no such thing beyond fantasy. Besides, Brandon got them the stuff they wanted in the end anyway.
Sunforged@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How do you take yourself seriously.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not a Marxist (or a communist at all, for that matter), but if anyone needs the perfect example of the lumpenproletariat participating in their own oppression by believing the lies of their oppressors, this is it.
Also no. Biden didn’t get them shit. He appointed better people than himself on the advice of better people than himself. Only thing he did personally was use his influence to take away their right to strike.