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Biden the best Labor President since FDR

• First President to stand the picket line with Union workers while the other guy said they should be fired

• Antitrust enforcement has surged. Monopoly busting has begun with the FTC, the Antitrust Division of Justice, and the NLRB without much notice in the press.

• Efforts to form unions have been protected and encouraged.

• 800k new manufacturing jobs

• Wages increased 3.8%

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

He sold out the rail workers and fuck him forever for that.

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anythingoes477 · M

@CountScrofula And there are no violations of principles by doing what is best in the interest in the big picture.. That is why negotiations in a union is called "BARGAINING". You ask for the world and meet someplace in between. I have been union all of my life and I know the drill...........so do you....despite the whining of what you didn't get this time around. You wanted paid sick leave....but have the best healthcare plan on the planet........other than congress. A railroad pension is so good it beats Social Security. Your hourly rate is about double what most skilled trades union workers make. So you didn't get paid sick leave.....................THIS TIME. Wah!!! Bargain for it next contract.

Reason10 · 61-69, M

@CountScrofula Conservatives are the best friends of labor and the worker the United STates has ever seen.
Conservative tax cuts BROUGHT IN HIGH PAYING MANUFACTURING JOBS, causing other employers to have to raise their pay in order to compete for workers. Conservative Republicans keep gasoline prices down, (for the paycheck to paycheck worker who drives to his job.) Conservative Republicans keep inflation down so the average worker's wages will buy more.
Conservatives like LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP keep foreign wars to a minimum, thus preventing a military draft that threatens every 18 year old fresh out of high school.
DemoNAZIS have done exactly the OPPOSITE. They are the mortal ENEMY of the American worker.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Reason10 aaaahahahahahahaahahahahahaha

[big]AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA[/big]

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

Lmao

Leftists continue to try and speak positive results into existence.

Wage increase is still half what it needs to keep up with inflation.
Which 'new' manufacturing jobs are there? Ones that didn't previously exist...
Unions aren't a good thing anymore, bc they extort companies and actually lead to automation and offshoring.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@easterniowegin [quote] I'm talking about inflation.[/quote] Yes, and yet republicans have fought attempts to raise the minimum wage which is an important way to protect the least skilled workers against inflation. Blaming Biden for what republicans blocked?? CUTE!!

[quote]no previous mention about productivity vs wages[/quote]
Restricting the debate to inflation is cherry-picking. The general topic is loss of middle class purchasing power, and it very much started under Reagan, despite your risible attempts to blame it all on Carter. (What? You don't recall Jerry Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" campaign?)

sladejr · 56-60, M

@SomeMichGuy

[quote]He was President after the Energy Crisis hit us hard in 1973 and destroyed the West...[/quote]

He didn't take office for 4 years after that. I won't even say nice try

Your slavish devotion to undeserved characters is embarassing

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@easterniowegin [quote]Why begin a discussion if you don't understand the topic??[/quote]

I gave up on the leftist apologists on this site years ago. None of them understand anything beyond msnbc.

IM5688 · 61-69, M

What jobs did Biden create?
Mostly gov't, (like the IRS,) and union jobs.
Not jobs for the average American.
And yes, wages increased. They had to increase to offset Bidenflation.
Why not look at all the major corporations and companies that have been or are currently laying off workers thanks to Biden. Even the union automakers are going to layoff workers due their massive loss of trying to push and manufacture EV's becaause of Biden.

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SatyrService · M

@IM5688 indeed many unions have become corrupt
but they can be brought back in line
like to be a Union Officer? YOU gotta Still work a union JOB
in infiltration by "certain Kinds of People"
and attracting those that just want to BE the bosses
I am hopeful
but they need to clean up their act
they need to be more open to more industries
and strikes? those should be a last resort, AFter negotioations

anythingoes477 · M

@IM5688 Riiight the 13 million jobs created in the last 3 1/2 years are just IRS jobs. ;-) ;-) ;-)

And wages DO NOT increase to offset inflation. Wage increases has the downside of CAUSING inflation.

And your last comment "what they are going to do".........100% guesswork based on your limited knowledge of both economics and the business world.........and an overdose of conspiracy theories.

Better go back to YouTube. About 99% of what you say is laughably uninformed.

SatyrService · M

@anythingoes477
I am not fond of Joe Biden.. but can see some improvement

just IRS jobs? yeah they lost so many people due to budget cuts TO the IRS that the attention to tax evasion has fallen off
you cant GET to talk to a real agent,, just "customer service" who are not allowed to tell you many answers
I give away free tax help, and now, i must go to a local office in order to get to an actual informed and trained agent
As of the end of 2022, [b]18.6 million[/b] individual taxpayers owed the Internal Revenue Service [b]$316 billion in overdue taxes[/b]
so hiring such,, will REDUCE out national Budget problems

Remember too, that the overwhelming majority of "aid To Ukraine, is spent HERE on US made things and thus Jobs
Monthly non-farm payrolls grew by 232,000 per month on average in 2023, 55,000 more jobs per month than the average pace in 2018 and 2019. As a result, total job gains achieved under the Biden administration reached 14.1 million through November 2023. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate has, to date, stayed below 4% for 22 [i]straight months, a run not seen in more than 50 years[/i]

WonderGirl · 36-40

Lowest unemployment in decades and highest new job numbers.

ElwoodBlues · M

@WonderGirl Yep, and here's the data to back you up. Cool that you earned a downvote from some hater - the truth really gets under their skin!!

[quote] [b]News: Unemployment is at its Lowest Level in 54 years[/b]
517,000 jobs added ; 3.4% unemployment rate. [/quote] https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2023/02/news-unemployment-its-lowest-level-54-years And yes, these are the same statistics that Trump used to crow about.

The Covid jobs recovery is complete and then some

Yeah, that data is a little old; here's data from the most recent months

sladejr · 56-60, M

@WonderGirl Wrong. And surprised you posted such dreck

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

Gee I wonder if the National Railroad workers feel that way...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-railroad-strike-2022-12-02/

[quote]Biden signs bill to block U.S. railroad strike
By David Shepardson and Nandita Bose
December 2, 20223:04 PM ESTUpdated a year ago
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden signed legislation Friday to block a national U.S. railroad strike that could have devastated the American economy.
The U.S. Senate voted 80 to 15 on Thursday to impose a tentative contract deal reached in September on a dozen unions representing 115,000 workers, who could have gone on strike on Dec. 9. But the Senate failed to approve a measure that would have provided paid sick days to railroad workers.
"It was tough for me but it was the right thing to do at the moment -- save jobs, to protect millions of working families from harm and disruption and to keep supply chains stable around the holidays," Biden said, adding the deal avoided "an economic catastrophe."
Eight of 12 unions had ratified the deal. But some labor leaders have criticized Biden, a self-described friend of labor, for asking Congress to impose a contract that workers in four unions have rejected over its lack of paid sick leave.[/quote]

No sick leave for them! They'll just have to work sick I guess...

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SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

@JonLosAngeles66 Hm, source?

JonLosAngeles66 · M

@SumKindaMunster https://newrepublic.com/post/170727/trump-deregulated-railroad-industry-lies-people-ohio-visit found it in two seconds. Lol

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

@JonLosAngeles66 Found the rebuttal in 1 second.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/feb/24/fact-checking-trumps-i-had-nothing-to-do-with-it-r/

[quote]

The Trump administration repealed an Obama-era rule requiring high-hazard cargo trains to be equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes by 2023, allowing them to brake faster.

Even if this safety rule was in effect, it would not have applied to the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, because it was not categorized as a high-hazard cargo train.
[/quote]

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

I'm a lefty but credit where credit is due: Biden has been pretty decent on this stuff.

LillyOLilly · F

MAGA supporters are jealous that their [b][i]rapist[/i][/b] president lost more jobs than any president in history even before the pandemic. I can't wait till Leticia James starts seizing Trump's properties. What a loser,

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@LillyOLilly kinda got you facts bassackward

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

@LillyOLilly Pansexual libertine who advocates for incest is judging others. 😂

BohemianBoo · M

Easily the best president of my lifetime.

Teirdalin · 31-35

Four month old news apparently, but I appreciate him doing that. But waiting until near the end of his term before voting comes up to do so comes off as manipulative rather than inspiring.
Technically still a better president choice than Trump at least.