Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic
Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic
The president applauded both sides for coming to an agreement.
fortune magazine
"i wonder what capitalism wants me to think is going on today?"
lol someone downvoted you for calling out that rag
I don't downvoted often, but I downvoted because it added nothing to the conversation, coupled with not making any sense in the context.
The article text doesn't support the headline ("Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic"):
“ With the grace of God, and the goodwill of neighbors, it’s gonna hold,” President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday night after the agreement.
In a statement later, Biden applauded both sides “for acting patriotically to reopen our ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding.”
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Thursday’s deal came after Biden administration officials met with foreign-owned shipping companies before dawn on Zoom, according to a person briefed on the day’s events who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The White House wanted to increase pressure to settle, emphasizing the responsibility to reopen the ports to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene, the person said.
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told them she could get the union to the bargaining table to extend the contract if the carriers made a higher wage offer. Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the carriers they had to make an offer by the end of the day so a manmade strike wouldn’t worsen a natural disaster, the person said.
By midday the Maritime Alliance members agreed to a large increase, bringing about the agreement, according to the person.
We had a major infrastructure strike. It was brief, workers got more of what they wanted on their terms. The sky didn't fall, the entire economy didn't immediately collapse.
All the fearmongering surrounding rail workers being able to strike was anti-labor bullshit.
Everyone talks like it's the dock workers going on strike that's the issue and not the corporations refusing to pay more.
Businesses make decisions to have a strike by refusing to listen to their hundreds or thousands of workers.
Joe doesn't have a big mouth like Trump, but he actually does accomplish things. Trump's jealous because he has no clue about how
Pete Buttigieg was point man and mentioned by both sides. History will tell a story about Pete IMO.
It's still crazy to me that Trump has all three branches and didn't pass a single piece of major legislation.
Biden didn't have anything to do with this..
Thursday’s deal came after Biden administration officials met with foreign-owned shipping companies before dawn on Zoom, according to a person briefed on the day’s events who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The White House wanted to increase pressure to settle, emphasizing the responsibility to reopen the ports to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene, the person said.
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told them she could get the union to the bargaining table to extend the contract if the carriers made a higher wage offer. Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the carriers they had to make an offer by the end of the day so a manmade strike wouldn’t worsen a natural disaster, the person said.
By midday the Maritime Alliance members agreed to a large increase, bringing about the agreement.
I cannot believe that actually worked.
He is right!
Only the gays keep the port closed
-Biden, probably
Not that I oppose union strikes but it's kind of dirty to do that to Democrats in the 11th hour. Not like their conditions would improve under Trump...
So associating bad publicity of obstructing hurricane aid is genius.
The union demands were extremely reasonable. What's dirty is that the company would prefer it to get to this stage than actually pay the workers fairly.
Dirty is how this would have played out had the strike occurred at any other time. Congress would have legislated back to work orders and that's assuming POTUS couldn't just use an executive order to do it.
Striking now meant honest negotiations instead of BS federal interference.
Yeah I'm sure the maga union boss was totally acting in good faith on behalf of his workers here...
Again, short-sighted. The damage may very well be done and this could jeopardize 4 years of someone who definitely will do jack shit for unions.
I know the tankies are upset, here, but here's a dose of reality:
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Union leader asking members to "pray" for Trump and his wonderful meeting with him.
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Worth noting to the inevitable raising of the Rail Strike break-up that he intervened to keep supplies coming for December of that year would ultimately have hit the poor and middle class the hardest... .All the while he still managed to include half of their demands by way of a pay raise.
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I'm not sorry in the slightest that workers exercised their right to withhold their labor in order to get more favorable terms.
If you interpret workers having rights as an attack, you should examine what that says about you and your wing of the party.
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