Quote (Goomshill @ Dec 3 2022 05:47am)
Oh yes, what a disaster it would have been for the country if the rail workers.... got their paid sick days.
Joe Biden didn't intervene in this dispute to negotiate a compromise between rail workers and the companies. He intervened to give rail companies what they wanted, and reject all the demands of the workers. Their real wages will drop each year and they will not get the benefits they sought.
This was the greatest betrayal of unions by democrats in living memory, and the highest profile union busting since Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.
I don't understand why he did this and why the rail companies would want this though. If rail workers feel that they are not getting the pay that they deserve, wouldn't they simply quit? And then the companies will have to hire new workers, train them, and then give them sufficiently attractive wages so as to keep them. They could avoid all this by simply paying the existing workers a bit better. Sounds like a dumb business move to me.