OMG. Can we stop circle jerking about something that didn’t happen? I’m just gonna paste my last comment about this because I don’t have the energy…
I’m no fan of Biden (though I did and will vote for him) but that’s not what happened. He did not bust the unions, the 12 unions still exist. He broke a strike, which is the intended purpose of the Railway Labor Act of 1926.
The law Biden put before congress to force a resolution to the three year negotiation deadlock would have guaranteed the workers 7 days of sick leave per year (they wanted 15). It passed the House but the Senate knocked it down to 1 day, with a 14% immediate pay increase and an additional 25% over the next five years.
Biden continued negotiate for the unions to get the sick days. They don’t all have them yet, but at this point 61% of the workers do have 4 short notice paid sick days with the option to trade three personal days for an additional 3 short notice sick days. Negotiations are still happening, the Biden administration is still part of them.
The Ohio derailment disaster was not a result of worker error (or lack of sick days) but lack of maintenance regulations, which was not something that was being negotiated at that time.
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate think people get sick ONCE a year? Or are they too fucking greedy and think “my stocks might lose value if those companies have to pay workers when they’re not working! Unacceptable!!”
I have a pretty poor view of our fellow citizens, but to be “represented” by that kind of disgusting human? It’s laughable to consider them representing anything but wealth…
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate [with unlimited paid sick leave that they use a lot because they are elderly and infirm] think people get sick ONCE a year?
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
OMG. Can we stop circle jerking about something that didn’t happen? I’m just gonna paste my last comment about this because I don’t have the energy…
Asafum@feddit.nl 7 months ago
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate think people get sick ONCE a year? Or are they too fucking greedy and think “my stocks might lose value if those companies have to pay workers when they’re not working! Unacceptable!!”
I have a pretty poor view of our fellow citizens, but to be “represented” by that kind of disgusting human? It’s laughable to consider them representing anything but wealth…
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 months ago