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The only nice things you can say about Trump or Biden on the issue of labor is that both were so bad for workers that it forced unions to become stronger by necessity.
And labor unions have.
I wish it didn't have to be that way, but that's life when all we elect are capitalists in service to the billionaire class.
Yea, don’t get me wrong. I’m voting for whatever democrat is available. But Biden sure did fuck the train labor union when they had a chance for negotiations.
Except for the part where he legitimately did push their demands through after signing an ugly bill that was necessary to prevent US infrastructure from shutting down entirely.
Note that there are some 12 "train labor unions" or so who were involved in the negotiations between legislators and freight companiws and themselves. I agree with you that this was received generally positively, but I need to point out that IBEW didn't speak for all of rail labor and some unions weren't happy in the end.
List of railway worker unions in the negotiation:
Republicans in Congress pushed a bill that did not have sick leave. After the bill passed white house continued to work with the unions and helped negotiate their contract so they got what they wanted (other comments provided links confirming it).
I guess the Republican plan worked, as it looks like people still only know about the bill.
It's true.
Can't have the billionaires losing money they don't need, after all.
Choo choo