Biden’s labor report card: Historian gives ‘Union Joe’ a higher grade than any president since FDR
Biden’s labor report card: Historian gives ‘Union Joe’ a higher grade than any president since FDR
Biden is arguably the most pro-union occupant of the White House since the New Deal.
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Bro quashed the railroad strike.
Nah, I thought so too at first. Look it up, his administration helped with the negotiations
He still banned the strike. They didn't get to use their own power to demand the terms they wanted, they had to accept what the outside negotiators were willing and able to get for them.
I'm not disagreeing with the article's premise, Biden is the most pro-labor president in a long time, but this gaslighting just makes Democrats look deceptive.
Edit: See @rockSlayer@lemmy.world's response for a great way to respond to this. You don't need to pretend his shit doesn't stink, acknowledge it and then talk about the good stuff.
Gonna need a link. A quick search only talks about him banning that strike for "economic reasons". While I'm willing to dig, I'd bet plenty whose minds may change are not.
He quashed the strike in the moment, and got them most of their demands as a follow-up, as I hear it. But only the first part ever made the news, for some reason.
I work for the railroad and this is incorrect. The big fight this contract was for actual sick leave. As of right now if I was to get sick and call in I'd potentially lose an entire weeks worth of pay for taking that one day off (our pay system is complicated) and have a mark on my attendance. Most class ones only allow three hits before you are let go. Some take this a step further and make weekends and holidays count as two strikes. Since we work on call 24 hours 6 days a week with no guarantee of actually being home for your day off doing things as simple as scheduling a doctors appointment becomes a nightmare.
What happened in December was congress removed the sick leave portion and made it a separate bill. H.J. Res. 100 passed to block us from striking while the bill for sick leave H.Con.Res.119 failed at the senate.
Ugh, god damn it.
Thanks for the correction..
There was one statement put out, from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, one of the unions that voted against the strike, and it just got mega amplified, seemingly everyone heard about it.
No, rail workers didnt get most of their demands, they didnt get as many sick days as they would have with a strike, or other benefits, and not every rail union even got sick days at all. And no one should forget just how poisonous this was for future bargaining, the unions one point of leverage being completely undermined
Publicly owned and traded media can't be trusted with facts or truth. They're in it for the money. Which these days means clicks and views. Which means salacious and outraging. Not factual or concise.
It's a major black mark on his labor record, but I can tell you with first hand experience as a union organizer that he's done significant things that should have been done decades ago.
The administration has actually done quite a bit in the background surprisingly. You do need to dig for it though
We're totally doing the opposite of what we do in public, only where you can't see it.
All good things are being done in secret for some reason, but they're happy to be very publicly bad.
It's all in public.
You only heard about the bad stuff if you listen to Fox News or to other people who got it from Fox News.
And you wouldn't have a different situation with any other recent president apparently.