After promising to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” Joe Biden is staying silent as Amazon workers try to unionize in Alabama. It could be because he’s just being Joe Biden — or it could be because of the massive leverage and influence the company exerts through its size.

Much as I hate Jacobin quite a lot of the times, they seem to be right here. And it’s because of people like Joe Biden that there pretty much is no labor movement, at least not one like the earlier decades. We’ll see how the events at Bessemer go, but it won’t be any thanks to Joe Biden…

  • Makan ☭ CPUSAOPM
    1•3 years ago

    On another note, good article aside, it does treat Biden’s “normalization” of China-US relations like it’s a bad thing (it’s not and, either way, Biden and his team aren’t normalizing them).