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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Biden has been collecting checks from and acting on behalf of corporations and executive side industry lobbies his entire career and strongarmed Congress into violating the rights of and defang railway workers by passing a bill ending their strike.

  although he’s made some pretty strong pro-union moves lately

  No he hasn’t. People more pro union than him that he hired at the advice of other people more pro union than him (and the people that work for them)have.

  Don’t be like the establishment media by giving him the credit that Lauren McFerran and the rest of the NLRB have earned.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I don’t understand how cabinet positions work, and I don’t know how to use Google” is all you needed to write

    Also there’s this:

    “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.

    www.ibew.org/media-center/…/230620_IBEWandPaid

    Imagine pretending to care about unions enough to act all pissed on their behalf but not caring enough to just Google what the outcome was.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Imagine pretending that the IBEW speaks for all railworkers because they and one other of the dozen unions involved accepted a crappy deal and has a leader who loves kissing neoliberal ass.

      Here’s over 500 labor historians disagreeing in an open letter.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your labor historian letter is from the year prior.

        You didn’t care enough to follow up because none of this is real to you. It’s just posturing. That’s sad as fuck

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      • BigNote@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You are overplaying it though. I am active in my union and in the organized labor movement more broadly here in the PNW. The railway strike left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths, but there’s also a recognition among leadership that the administration didn’t have any great options if they didn’t want to further tank the economy and cause even more inflation with potentially worse long-term results for everyone.

        On the flipside he has appointed by far the most pro union NLRB in history, so this is kind of a case of letting the good be the enemy of the perfect.

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