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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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I don't agree with breaking the railroad strike, but follow-up negotiations got zero coverage. Nada. Mass media got people thinking this is a double standard, yet it truthfully isn't.
Labor's power is our ability to withhold our labor. To take away the ability to strike is to take away our power.
Biden's follow up has gotten plenty of coverage, the media has been falling over itself to sell it as a huge win, when the reality is he got rail worker 4 days sick leave and the ability to turn 2 vacation days into sick leave. Compair that to here in Seattle where anyone working within city limits is getting 12 days off a year and it becomes obvious what bread crumbs Biden actually got them. Not to mention that the administration only started pushing the rail companies in earnest after national pressure was mounting from the disaster in East Palestine.
Could it be people critical of Biden are actually paying closer attention than yourself?
It's always a struggle, isn't it. We hold our leaders to a standard, while the other side of the aisle blatantly doesn't. It puts us at a disadvantage, and the whole country suffers because the oppo just loves to fall in line while we try to find a nuanced level of support for ours. It's a FPTP issue, a media issue, a gerrymander issue, there's so much wrong with our democracy and nuance is the first thing to go.