Quote (Goomshill @ 3 Dec 2022 05:34)
Democrats control congress and the white house. This law was entirely their measure, and happened at Joe Biden's behest. It was his intervention into a labor dispute in the first place.
Any of the nonsense about dual track bills is just pure posturing, like it always is with congress. They floated a bill including sick leave in the same sense that Obamacare was open to debate and commentary while the real bill was being hashed out behind closed doors with zero input.
The fact is that Joe Biden stabbed unions in the back, and has taken the most aggressive union busting action by a president since Ronald Reagan. There's some argument for the capture of union leadership by partisan political interests betraying their members, don't let me minimize that aspect- if they were actually serving their workers, they would have gone on strike before the election when they still had leverage over Biden and congress. But the fact that unions are being shanked by Biden and the democrats in congress instead of taking their dispute up with the corporate executives shows both how defunct unions have become in the 21st century as well as how much Democrats have betrayed the working class. "Republicans never supported unions in the first place" isn't much of a rallying cry for a party that pretends to support them, then quashes them worse than Republicans do, at least post Reagan.
Nah, this kind of law is to prevent major crisis if the strike happend or happend too long i guess, it's a securityThe Senate passed legislation Thursday
to avoid an economically catastrophic rail strike one day after the House approved the measure.
It now goes to President Joe Biden, who said he "will sign the bill into law." He had pleaded with Congress to act swiftly, warning of major harm to supply chains that could disrupt supplies of clean drinking water and gasoline in an already fragile economy.
==> The bill rejected an amendment championed by Sen.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Democrats to add seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers to the agreement. The vote was 52 to 43, falling eight votes short of succeeding.
==> “Let me be clear: This struggle is not over,” Sanders said after the vote, regretting the failure of the sick leave amendment. “At a time of record-breaking profits for the rail industry, it is disgraceful that railroad workers do not have a single day of paid sick leave.”
You are accusing democrats, the non sense is real.