Huh! President Joe Biden actually cares more about something than Big Labor: himself. He now wants Congress to force rail unions to take a deal and avert a catastrophic strike, even though some unions have already nixed it.
What a departure from the collective-bargaining-above-all approach he’s long taken. And it’s obvious why: With Americans already facing Bidenflation and a potentially painful recession, a rail strike would utterly slam the nation’s economy — and his legacy.
“I am calling on Congress to pass legislation immediately to adopt the Tentative Agreement [reached in September by] railroad workers and operators,” Biden said Monday, insisting no “path to resolve the dispute at the bargaining table” exists.
— Read more at the NY Post
‘Joe Biden blew it’: Rail workers union lashes out at the White House
President Joe Biden is facing heat from one of his most loyal constituencies as Congress prepares a vote that could avoid a painful railroad strike ahead of the holidays.
Biden celebrated in September a deal that would end negotiations between railway workers and their bosses, averting a strike. But that deal has since been rejected by multiple unions, which are now turning on Biden as the saga continues.
“Joe Biden blew it,” Railroad Workers United said in a press release. “He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers. Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days. The Democrats and Republicans are both pawns of big business and the corporations.”
— Read more at the Washington Examiner
This is a legacy defining moment for Joe Biden. He is going down as one of the biggest disappointments in labor history. https://t.co/FoPlshWbIL
— Railroad Workers United ✊ (@railroadworkers) November 29, 2022
Press Release from RWU:
“Joe Biden blew it. He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers.”https://t.co/3SOKQvnQCI
— Railroad Workers United ✊ (@railroadworkers) November 29, 2022
While a rail strike would be disastrous—if it helps to expose Biden and his incompetence, it may be the sugar in the medicine.
That’s why i am shocked, he’s not all FOR the strike.
Smart Union leaders should show their patriotism and make opening our oil drilling and Keystone pipeline part of the settlement or NO DEAL. Joe needs some patriotic disciplining and who better to do it than our frontline railway laborers who Joe with mouth supports, but in actions throws under the bus, using them as pawns to win mid-terms election in lies. The Biden Railroaded Railway Union people need to step up and do collectively to Joe and his cohorts of communism, that which Elon Musk is doing as an individual to force him back into the real world of MAGA. The ultimate results of failed socialism is that they always delude themselves to be righteous in the basic stolen temporary successes of Socialism, which is based on who collectively organizes first. The Socialist weak human life force takers who cannot compete individually must form cadres of social collectives, to redistribute that which they cannot or will not produce having abandoned all concepts of human Self-governance, always destined to fail when the American strong themselves organize collectively and put them down faster than a national Socialist Hitler on a Mein Kompf mission was put down in 4 short years when the American strong and free world organized to defy him. Higher wages and benefits versus Making American successful again. Why settle for one when you have the power to do BOTH, and get even with Joe and the deceiving Democrats in the process?
From all i’ve seen, UNIONS are not patriotic. UNLIKE they were in the old days.
Back in WWII days the mafia may have been bad, but they were OUR mafia and they did a lot to Rid Italy of the Germans and teh spys here at home.
AND protected our ports, so our troops could get all the supplies they needed.
The deal the unions once had with the Democrat Party is no longer, the Party is that of big business, big tech, with big pockets to fund the Dems, once the province of the unions when the Party claimed to be for the little guy, the worker! Now the railroad workers are being thrown under the traincars, they’re threatened by having Congress legislate what should be negotiations held in good faith.
What? Biteme assured us that he had this handled back in September due to his outstanding negotiating skills. My dog negotiates better at dinner time