He literally overrode a majority house vote and senate vote. There's no question of him issuing new laws whenever he wants, all he had to do was sign it and he didn't. I'm guessing these bills were also probably on his desk for a while too and now was the convenient time to sign them.
purahna
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Ah yes, because funding never comes with any strings attached.
wow British state owned media is acting on behalf of the state? craaaazy
Yes it is, whataboutism is defined as when a leftist says something that a liberal doesn't like. This is exactly that.
Collective bargaining and negotiations isn't the goal, and striking also isn't the goal. The goal is to win your stated demands (or as many of them as possible), like you said. Collective bargaining is safer and involves putting less at stake but is less of an exertion of force and offers less opportunity to flex your strength as workers united. Striking is riskier and is much more devastating to fail at but garners much more public recognition and cements how necessary you are in the event you succeed. Both are choices and both should be available and used at the appropriate time.
As for the original quote I made, I think there was a little bit of a disconnect there, I agree that rail workers should be nationalized (although that doesn't mean they shouldn't also be unionized), I'm saying that the problem is that the auto workers can have their strike entertained because they're "less important" (read: the consequences of their striking are less immediate) where rail workers can't have their strike entertained, because while they're just as exploited, they're also more day-to-day mission critical.
Individuals learn and change, but learning and changing is only impressive when you're doing it in the name of progress and not in the name of pandering to the most tactically expedient blend of reactionaries and progressives.
The rail strike would have had major economy-wide side effects, including people in other industries being laid off and inflation being exacerbated by shortages in basic food, water, gas.
so essentially since these workers aren't as important, they're allowed to play around a little bit with a strike?
this seems like part of a coordinated push for this tiblur thing