Joe Biden to join picket line with striking auto workers in Michigan
Joe Biden to join picket line with striking auto workers in Michigan
President Joe Biden is set to join the UAW picket line in Michigan one day before former President Donald Trump visits the Detroit area.
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He broke the rail strike, then made a big song and dance about sick days as if that was the only thing rail workers needed to strike over.
Fucked over workers and pissed all over their broad set of grievances and demands.
I don't think he should be welcomed.
Well I am glad he didn't stop fighting along side them and get them what they wanted.
The rail strike affected the supply chain, it wasn't just a straight up workers vs. the company kind of thing. A lot of collateral damage to consider downstream. And he hardly fucked them over. He forced a deal that was likely how it would've worked out anyway.
Biden has done more for unions than any President in history. That just doesn't fit with the doomer narrative though.
The damage is the fucking point.
Yes, that's the doomer philosophy. But you understand there are people that aren't doomers that like having groceries on the shelves at the store?
What should have happened here is that Biden should have pressured the companies to resolve the strike as quickly as possible.
Workers generally don't like striking. Not getting paid sucks. It's really the only lever of power they have in a lot of cases though.
Banning their ability to strike means that the only options they have left are to suck up whatever awful conditions they have or quit. Quitting en mass would do the same damage you're talking about, but far more permanently.
And? The point of strikes are to put pressure on the employers because they haven't responded to workers demands. If they aren't going to pay a wage worth the work or benefits like employees being able to spend time with their families or take sick leave, they aren't entitled to the workers time, or labors.
And the knock on effects like let's say... not being able to get your groceries sucks for you in the here and now, the benefits of not having LITERAL TOXIC WASTE DUMPED ONTO SMALL TOWNS AND CATCH ON FUCKING FIRE because the railworkers aren't well rested, or inspections/maintenance haven't been being properly done kind outweighs you being able to get your bag of Doritos and two liter of Mountain Dew. Oh and it also adds more pressure to the rail companies to come back to the negotiating table.
I find hope and inspiration in workers striking, not doom.
I find hope in workers being treated well and not needing to strike. I also find hope in there being food on the shelves at my grocery stores.
Wanting things to be bad enough to necessitate labor actions like striking is doomer thinking.
Starting with the assumption that things are so bad everything needs to be destroyed so everything can be rebuilt is doomer thinking. Sure there are times that strikes are necessary and we should support them when they are, but making the assumption that everything is bad isn't all that healthy.