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hE's OnE oF Us! (lemmy.world)
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[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 79 points 9 months ago

Are people seriously complaining about a President joining a strike picket line?!

Jebus fucken christ you people are pathetic. No wonder no one listens to you clowns.

The same dipshits that are trying to discredit Biden for somehow being out of touch will be praising Traitor Trump as if some billionaire from NY has any connection to regular folks.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 47 points 9 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ, take the PR win. Having a president stand with a strike, even just symbolically, brings a fuckton of attention to the issue, which generally serves the strikers, not the employers.

Swear to God, cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

It's better than how he handled the rail strikes. I'm glad he's supporting the people on this one.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 23 points 9 months ago

He did shut down the railroad workers strike...and then got them the paid sick days they were striking to get

From the article:

When Joe Biden and Congress enacted legislation in December that blocked a threatened freight rail strike, many workers angrily faulted Biden for not ensuring that the legislation also guaranteed paid sick days. But since then, union officials says, members of the Biden administration, including the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and labor secretary, Marty Walsh, who stepped down on 11 March, lobbied the railroads, telling them it was wrong not to grant paid sick days.

Probably treating this one differently because a railroad shutdown would have had much larger impact on people working in other industries.

[-] Mamertine@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Thanks for sharing that. I was unaware of this. I thought Biden really shit the bed with the handling of the railroad union. Seems like the prez gave the union what they were after.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately no he didn't

Further on in that same article

But the unions representing workers who operate the trains day to day, such as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, have had far less success reaching agreement on paid sick days. “The railroads went to the non-operating crafts first and cut a deal with them,” said Mark Wallace, first vice-president of the Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. “If a carman [who inspects and repairs railcars] has to call in sick and doesn’t come to work, the train will still run. If the engineer or conductor has to call in sick, the train is probably not going to go that day.”

The IBEW union that a lot of people like to quote on this because they said Biden helped them get what they wanted were willing to sign the contract negotiators arrives at before the strike started to happen, the workers who wanted something more and wanted to strike before Congress and Biden forbid them from doing so still haven't gotten the sick days they need

[-] artisanrox@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

Dude.

He literally IS one of us. He grew in upper working class. You can still see his house in Scranton.

[-] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Do you know how he graduated from upper middle class to oppressor? He coined the term "Welfare Queen" to blame black people for inner city decline resulting from the CIA supplying cheap crack cocaine and threw the LGBTQ community under the bus up until 2012.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
[-] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I think he managed a paper company or something like that, yeah

[-] jerome@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
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