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[–] FatCat@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (10 children)

How did dems abandon the working class?

Biden has been the most pro working class president since FDR.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tell that to the rail workers

[–] FatCat@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

US rail companies grant paid sick days after public pressure in win for unions https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave?CMP=share_btn_url

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.

“We’ve made a lot of progress,” said Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the main US labor federation. “This is being done the right way. Each railroad is negotiating with each of its individual unions on this.”

[–] chaonaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And it was because the public demanded the rail workers should get paid sick days after the administration shut down the strike. Showing that the Biden Administration had to walk back unpopular anti-union activities because of public outcry as evidence of Biden's pro-union behavior is not a very strong argument.

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