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.
en.wikipedia.org/…/2022_United_States_railroad_la…
reuters.com/…/white-house-renews-pressure-railroa…
reuters.com/…/most-unionized-us-rail-workers-now-…
Beau of the Fifth Column, Let’s Talk About Biden, the Rails and Sick days… Youtube link
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