Michigan @midwest.social Iampossiblyatwork @lemmy.world 11mo ago

UAW strike would test Biden's assertion he's the 'most pro-union president'

www.wxyz.com UAW strike would test Biden's assertion he's the 'most pro-union president in US history'

The prospect of an auto workers strike could test Joe Biden's treasured assertion that he's the most pro-union president in U.S. history.

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He'll be just as pro union as he was when he was cool with making rail strikes illegal.

He's a right wing capitalist same as the rest of the DNC. He will never back labor in any meaningful way.
- You realize that a rail strike would cripple the US, skyrocket inflation, and create shortages all over, right?
  
  Also that the unions overall didn't want to strike, but if everyone in all but the smallest rail union voted not to strike and the smallest one voted to with the smallest majority they could they'd all be obligated to?
  
  By all means criticize as you feel it's appropriate, but be informed about how you do.
  
  You realize that a rail strike would cripple the US, skyrocket inflation, and create shortages all over, right? Also that the unions overall didn’t want to strike, but if everyone in all but the smallest rail union voted not to strike and the smallest one voted to with the smallest majority they could they’d all be obligated to?
  
  If the government can command workers back to work they can command the company take the union side contract. That is the problem. Not that he ended it but how it was ended. Lets end strikes like this by government enforcing the union demands.
  
  Sometimes letting things fail is the best solution. Allowing more banks to fail in 2008 would have been bad in the short term, but would likely put us in a better place today.
  
  The problems a rail strike would cause are incentive to not have a prolonged strike like the actors and writers. A strike of a few days wouldn't have actually been that bad.
  
  Criticizing people when you don't even understand how strikes work jfc. "I support labor so long as they don't cause any hiccups in day to day life" GTFOH bootlicker.
  
  "If everybody but the smallest rail union" 8 out of 12 orgs agreed, but those 8 represent far less than half of the affected workforce. Fun how the people who love to shriek about "being informed" never know dick about dick.
  
  If their jobs are so fucking critical we should probably take care of those employees, shouldn't we, instead of stripping their legal right to collective bargaining? It's neat how the slightest labor action or a single Mom being able to afford rent is always the base cause of inflation but years of ballooning pricing to brag about "record profits" have nothing to do with anything.
  
  Eat my whole ass faschie.
- It seems that at least one union appreciates what the Biden administration has done in regards to that.
  
  I have family who works in the railroad and I can assure you that the vast majority do not appreciate what he has done, paid sick days are only a fraction of what needed to change
  
  The unions that voted for it represent under half of affected workers, and those against it represent well over half.
  
  Like 30% of Americans want to actively dismantle our government for a fascist theocracy, that doesn't mean they should get their way.
  
  I've had enough of these pointedly disengenuous arguments.
- He isn't a Right Wing capitalist. He's a Left Wing capitalist. The Right is feudalist.

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