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“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers."
Gotta give the president props for that, as well as democrats. Didn't realize they got that through. I'd like them to keep pushing for a least 12 national sick days for all mid to major companies.
Would love to see some universal protections.
As always, Democrats are the WORST at PR.
https://www.reddit.com/r/railroading/comments/16sclgc/are_we_still_upset_with_biden_for_our_contracts/
Far less than they asked for, and did nothing towards meeting their other major demands such as Precision Scheduled Railroading.
If Biden was incapable or unwilling to force the rail companies to give better terms, he should have stayed out of it.
Have you ever heard of the word "negotiation"? Why aren't you talking about how the result was "far less than what the rail companies asked for"?
They got like 5 sick days out of the 15 they wanted. And zero of their other demands.
Then perhaps they shouldn't have accepted it and striked as planned? The fact that it wasn't "enough" for the workers isn't on the POTUS and doesn't negate his actions.
They kind of kick-started this years huge labor push. Sure, it was bubbling up for a while before the rail unions decided to take action but they were the first "big" players to threaten a strike in a while. It's easy to say that from the sidelines after the fact but they were being vilified by national media 24/7 for weeks, getting a bunch of pressure from Congress and being threatened to have the book thrown at them if they decided to strike. They were early to the party and didn't have all of it's completely understandable.
It's also completely valid to criticize Biden for not doing enough when it really mattered, he could've put more pressure on Congress, he could've visited the workers and given his approval. He's clearly capable of these things when it suits his interests, why didn't he do any of that for the rail unions? Surely they could've used the help. Why was "working in the background" good enough for them but all of a sudden it's insufficient for the UAW?
The labor movement is a positive feedback loop of direct action. I'm still contending with the fact that I'm a major player in the labor movement within tech, but I can trace the labor action of the last few months directly to CODE-CWA forming to help organize Google workers in 2020. Labor action fuels labor action. The ABK Workers Alliance were inspired by Paizo, who inspired Vodeo Workers United, who inspired ABKWA members to unionize at Raven into GWA, who inspired more tech unions to form, who inspired SBWU to perform militant labor actions, who inspired WGA and SAG-AFTRA (they work in the games industry).
Edit: I feel like downvotes are coming from my claim about being a major player in the labor movement. Without revealing who I am or where I work, my workplace will be the largest union in tech when we file, beating ZWU by approximately 160 people. I'm the lead organizer of this campaign, and we have approximately 40% card saturation (the campaign started very abnormally). There is almost 0% chance anyone has seen my name outside of my home town, except my labor actions have placed me on an obscure games media podcast talking about GDC, in a picture of a CWA newsletter, and I was quoted on an article from WSJ regarding my activism.
Criticism is totally fine and often deserved, I'm just saying using the rail strike (or any past Biden ball-drops) as a measuring stick for this one servers little purpose and detracts from the core issue. He should be held to task for those things when it comes election time, not fielding "but what about XYZ?" statements.
Launching an illegal strike is far different from launching a legally protected strike. They'd have to accept the possibility that everyone loses their jobs and some people might even get taken to court. Things just aren't that bad yet.
Fair point! Thanks.
4 days out of the desired 15, and no addressing of the myriad of other issues. Wow, such good. Much work. Good Biden.