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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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    Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Just admit you don’t actually give a fuck about people’s lives. You have your worldview and the reality doesn’t matter.
    
    Hey look, I found a picture of you! Image
    
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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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    Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    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.
    
    That’s true and the only pro union thing he DOES deserve at least some of the credit for, even though there’s no way it was his own idea.
    
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    Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    He forced a contract after taking away the power to strike. The contract he forced was in the favor of the rail owners while taking power away from labor.
    
    Shortly afterwards the disaster in East Palestine happened and lots of people were justifiably pissed at the Biden admin for their part. It was only after East Palestine that the admin started working to get rail workers some of the demands they were originally asking for.
    
    They got 4 days sick leave, which is breadcrumbs, but the Biden admin and mainstream media are attempting to sell it as a huge win for labor. The truth of the matter is if Biden was truly pro labor and was attempting to mitigate the economic impact of a strike from “essential workers” he could have just as easily forced a contract in labour’s favor from the start. Everything else is cover for that fact, don’t get it twisted.
    
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