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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

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All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

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Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Biden Will Join Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan, a Historic Move (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In an extraordinary show of support for organized labor, President Biden said he would join workers in Michigan on the front lines of their strike against leading automakers.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well why didn't you do that for the train workers, asshole??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly my question. God forbid they actually have sick days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

When Joe Biden and Congress enacted legislation in December that blocked a threatened freight rail strike, many workers angrily faulted Biden for not ensuring that the legislation also guaranteed paid sick days. But since then, union officials says, members of the Biden administration, including the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and labor secretary, Marty Walsh, who stepped down on 11 March, lobbied the railroads, telling them it was wrong not to grant paid sick days.

“We’ve made a lot of progress,” said Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the main US labor federation. “This is being done the right way. Each railroad is negotiating with each of its individual unions on this.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Buden got the railworkers their demands. The media just never covered it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but he shouldn't have shut down the negotiations in the first place.

It's bad optics for him. He would have known perfectly well which action would be covered by the media, and which one wouldn't be, and how that would look. It ends up looking like a strategic choice to appear anti-union.
It weakens the railworkers union! Now they know they can't get their demands on their own, they literally have to have federal intervention. Their bosses also know this. Biden also knew this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I honestly agree. We need strong Unions and forcing them back to work sucks. But without the trains running, America's economic infrastructure would collapse pretty quickly. Then everyone would be blaming Biden for that.

It was a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.