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OR House Republicans Want to Make It Illegal for Teachers to Strike (www.wweek.com)

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[–] regul@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would think, wouldn't you? But this approach is quite common. Biden's "deal" to prevent the rail strike was to make it illegal for them to strike. Air traffic controllers were also legally prevented from striking in the 80s, but did a wildcat strike anyway. Reagan fired all of them and then banned them from ever being rehired.

[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sources for your Biden claims please.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biden signs bill averting rail worker strike despite lack of paid sick days

President Joe Biden signed a bill into law making a rail strike illegal, preventing workers from walking off the job weeks before the holiday season.

The Democrats basically didn't want to have a holiday rail strike on their hands. It would have been a disaster, politically. Unfortunately, railway union workers got the short end of the stick, much like in earlier rail strikes. I've been watching the /r/railroading subreddit since then. There has been some progress, but it hasn't been the grand bargain that was desired out of a strike.