Biden you suck

I don’t know if any of y’all are following the rail workers looming strike but you should be.

Biden and congress are probably going to force the unions hand in accepting the offer by the rail lines, albeit with the provision they are given 7 sick days per year.

7. Per year.

That’s just some of what they’re [i]not[/i] getting now. No wonder they’re threatening to shut the whole country down.

The government can back off and the whole thing can collapse. Give the workers what they deserve.

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LeopoldBloom · M

Everything the rail companies are doing is legal. We need to change the law. Most workers are not unionized and get paid sick days only if their employer voluntarily provides them.

Or nationalize the rail industry and all of the workers become federal civil servants. But in the absence of that, this was the best Biden could do given the needs of the workers and the public.

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LeopoldBloom · M

@MalteseFalconPunch It's based on the 1926 Rail Labor Act, which gives the unions less power than they have in other industries. Given the importance of rail transport, the industry should definitely be nationalized. Recent developments such as Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) has allowed rail companies to run fewer but longer trains, squeezing more work out of fewer employees. They're even contemplating eliminating conductors from some trains. Here's an analysis by someone in the industry who's more familiar with the situation.

[c=003BB2]https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2022/Items/Dec02-3.html[/c]

Human1000 · 51-55, M

@LeopoldBloom Exactly. Railroads need to be treated more like utilities.