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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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...

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@SumKindaMunster And the pipeline workers lost their jobs.

JonLosAngeles66 · M

@SumKindaMunster that's not the end of the story. They got sick days thanks to Biden. He just played a master class in making their win into an advantage for the workers. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@MrBrownstone 11,000 the first day in office and all the jobs associated, truckers, restaurants, clothiers and more

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

@JonLosAngeles66 Woooow 4 whole sick days a year, with an option to trade in your PTO for more! What a deal!

[quote]After being roundly criticized for not offering paid sick days, the leading rail companies – BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific – have granted many of their 93,000 workers four paid sick days a year through labor negotiations, with an option of taking three more paid sick days from personal days.[/quote]

Also, if you read the entire article you would note its not ALL railroad workers.

[quote] 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.”[/quote]

JonLosAngeles66 · M

@SumKindaMunster it's better than the other guy who deregulated trains directly resulting in a n historic disaster.

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/

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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.
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