Are people seriously complaining about a President joining a strike picket line?!
Jebus fucken christ you people are pathetic. No wonder no one listens to you clowns.
The same dipshits that are trying to discredit Biden for somehow being out of touch will be praising Traitor Trump as if some billionaire from NY has any connection to regular folks.
Remember when he blocked the rail strike right before a massive derailment caused by the very things the rail worker's union was striking about?
Pepperidge Farm remembers, because it's under a slurry of contaminated mud in East Jerusalem.
I'm just going to jump in here to correct some viral misinformation I've seen come up every time someone's mentions the railroad strike before it comes up again in this thread - no Biden did not help them eventually get the sick days they were asking for
US freight rail companies nearly spurred a nationwide railroad strike last fall by refusing to grant paid sick days, but in a surprise move welcomed by workers, those railroads have recently granted paid sick days to almost half their workforce.
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But the unions representing workers who operate the trains day to day, such as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, have had far less success reaching agreement on paid sick days.“The railroads went to the non-operating crafts first and cut a deal with them,” said Mark Wallace, first vice-president of the Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. “If a carman [who inspects and repairs railcars] has to call in sick and doesn’t come to work, the train will still run. If the engineer or conductor has to call in sick, the train is probably not going to go that day.”
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Jesus fucking Christ, take the PR win. Having a president stand with a strike, even just symbolically, brings a fuckton of attention to the issue, which generally serves the strikers, not the employers.
Swear to God, cutting off your nose to spite your face.
A person has to be as corrupt as Trump to be worse than Biden for the working class.
It's better than how he handled the rail strikes. I'm glad he's supporting the people on this one.
He did shut down the railroad workers strike...and then got them the paid sick days they were striking to get
From the article:
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.
Probably treating this one differently because a railroad shutdown would have had much larger impact on people working in other industries.
Dude.
He literally IS one of us. He grew in upper working class. You can still see his house in Scranton.
Do you know how he graduated from upper middle class to oppressor? He coined the term "Welfare Queen" to blame black people for inner city decline resulting from the CIA supplying cheap crack cocaine and threw the LGBTQ community under the bus up until 2012.
Was he a paper salesman?
I think he managed a paper company or something like that, yeah
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