Comment on UAW strike Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoMm okay, thanks. Do you know why he was so staunchly against the rail workers?
Money. Because they were striking in December right before the holidays, and people get mad about shipments and economic problems right before the holidays. Also, he’s Biden, not Bernie Sanders. From Reuters:
A rail strike could have frozen almost 30% of U.S. cargo shipments by weight, stoked already surging inflation, cost the American economy as much as $2 billion a day, and stranded millions of rail passengers.
Damn thirty percent. Thank you. Wow.
Yeah, knowing what I knew about Biden, I have been shocked at how many of his presidential decisions and policies I’ve agreed with.
The media always frames it like it’s the workers costing the economy, not the greedy mfers at the top.
Not sure but guessing it’s because the UAW has significantly more members?
spamfajitas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He wasn’t so entirely against them as people might have made it seem.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230620220325/https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this article, I didn’t know about it and It provides context to help me understand the entire situation way better.