• astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah go tell that to the railroad workers that dont get any sick days cuz Biden fucked them over

    Unions in general maybe doing good but the one major union thing he had direct control over he sided with the corporations in the name of protecting the economy because they are too big to fail

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        1 year ago

        I’m glad it ended up well. I understood why they needed to prevent a strike back then. I didn’t like it. But I understood it was the least shitty option.

        I expected that to be the end of it, and I’m glad it wasn’t. It seems the Biden administration went right back to antagonizing the rail companies until they finally gave. It isn’t good politics, but it is good governance, and I’ll take that any day.

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          1 year ago

          I expected that to be the end of it, and I’m glad it wasn’t.

          Same here. I wish Democrats had made a huge deal about it.

          Everyone saw Biden the strikebreaker. Everyone saw him promise to keep working for rail workers, but we’ve seen Democrats say they were going to keep working for the public option and raising the minimum wage. There are still plenty of people who don’t know about the sick days because Democrats are garbage at messaging, ashamed of their accomplishments, or both.

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      1 year ago

      Unionization is pitifully low in the US. To suggest they are booming is like someone saying they got a massive raise this year because their boss almost matched it to inflation.