UAW strike would show Biden, other leaders that it's time to 'pick a side,' union boss says
UAW strike would show Biden, other leaders that it's time to 'pick a side,' union boss says
UAW President Shawn Fain's comments add to unusual tension between the leader of the historically Democratic union and Biden.
Do it. Stop pussy footing around these rich fucks and do it.
You want better working conditions? Start striking across the board every time they refuse to give an inch. In 2019 Ford lost 3.9 billion over a UAW strike. You better believe that made the investment funds for the shareholders blink. Let them simmer on that every time they refuse to negotiate for human decency. They have billions. We have pennies. Force them to give it up.
Biden already chose a side when it comes to unions. Ask the rail road workers.
IBEW was one of the unions that ratified the tentative agreement without the sick days. This message isn't a turnaround from the people who wanted to strike.
Their right to negotiate was stolen from them.
Signing the law that took away their right to strike made them worthless. They took away the bargaining chip and then on the backend turned this into a shady negotiation deal as a placation tactic, or another way to put it, damage control.
This gets posted because there should be no such thing as "too big to fail". Yes, a rail strike would've crippled the economy, but the solidarity should've been there regardless. It's shit like this that set the stage for a slippery slope to armed conflict, is that the next step?
Lawmakers take away our right to strike so that materials delivery can be forced? I disagree completely that Biden was pro-Union when at the end of the day he signed the bill that fucked the rail workers.
Amazing how so many people care so deeply about the rail workers and their paid sick days but can't be bothered to keep up with the news unless it's being spoon-fed to them, huh?
It's almost like they don't actually care but enjoy engaging in performative outrage.
Why does everybody post this tidbit but not the fact that the White House continued working with the rail companies after all of the strike talk and the Tentative Agreement and many rail workers got sick time as well?
I’m not speaking to their stance on unions, just the fact that the President’s job is to represent their constituency, just like all politicians. An economic crash due to a rail shutdown doesn’t benefit any person in the US.
I support unions and workers right to strike but at the cost of potential economic collapse?
I think more focus should be given to the lack of visible support on pro union/worker legislation.
You can't just take away workers right to their own power and self-determination and then think it's all good if you help them get some of the things they want. That's not actually being pro-union.
I support unions and workers right to strike but at the cost of potential economic collapse?
Every strike causes disruptions, and the bigger the disruption the stronger the strike. Accepting that workers get to use their power to decide what deal is acceptable is part of being pro-labor, even if it means your life is disrupted.
But if you for some reason don't believe that labor can engage in big disruptions to show their bosses they're serious and decide you simply must intervene in a worker-employer negotiation, then enforce the contract the workers wanted. And if you're not willing to force their bosses to accept a contract they don't like, then don't pretend you had no choice when you forced the workers.
Because if you sign back to work legislation you are a worthless fuck.
I support unions and workers right to strike but at the cost of potential economic collapse?
Is that what you want to hear when it's your turn? Fuck this scab ass take. "I support workers rights, no really, it's just I need my treats."
When the working class is expressing it's power and one wants to claim they are "the most union friendly president you've ever seen," you get the fuck out of the way and let it happen.
The problem is that if you're willing to sacrifice the good of the minority for the stagnation of the masses, everyone is going to suffer. Because the majority is just a conglomeration of lots of different minorities. So no matter the issue, you're one chopping block away from being sacrificed for the sake of maintaining the status quo.
Breaking the strike didn't make anyone's life better... just made it less inconvenient for people who wouldn't benefit from the strike.
I support unions and workers right to strike but at the cost of potential economic collapse?
Wanting your shiny things but supporting unions and workers' right to strike is like trying to reconcile diametrically opposed forces. Pick one, do you want "muh economy" or worker's rights? Compulsion to work is a Soviet Communist tactic, and leads to the slippery slope of armed conflict we use to have here in the US before we all agreed that laborers not-shooting at our servicemen, law enforcement, and Pinkertons was a good thing.
Because that doesn't fit the narrative as well lmao
Daddy buffet told the big man to shut that shit down and biden did just that.
Read it as “UAV strike”
Not an American, so I'm probably missing some info. I'm confused about the comments re Biden. Didn't the NLRB (sp?) recently make changes that gave a lot of leverage to unions?
Yes: Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules
It's just republicans trying to politic to their base by misconstruing the facts. Fact is republicans have always been anti-labor. While, unfortunately democrats don't campaign well on their actual accomplishments for working people and tend to expect those accomplishments to stand for themselves. This is also why republicans are mostly dumb and tend to believe whatever the most reactionary (and loud) voice in the room tells them is true, even while those same people stab them in the back while lying to their face.