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Old 11-29-2022, 02:37 PM   #23741 (permalink)
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Rail unions decry Biden's call for Congress to block strike. Businesses praise the plan

Dark Brandon is dead. **** Joe Biden and burn this country to the ground.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 11-29-2022, 08:47 PM   #23742 (permalink)
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Aw. I read that as rats' union. Come on you rodents! You have nothing to lose but your... um... well... rats unite!
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Old 11-30-2022, 08:59 AM   #23743 (permalink)
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Rail unions decry Biden's call for Congress to block strike. Businesses praise the plan

Dark Brandon is dead. **** Joe Biden and burn this country to the ground.
“In my White House, you’ll always be welcome. You’ll always be welcome. Labor will always be welcome. You know, you’ve heard me say many times: I intend to be the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history.”

- Joe Biden
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Old 11-30-2022, 09:10 AM   #23744 (permalink)
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“In my White House, you’ll always be welcome. You’ll always be welcome. Labor will always be welcome. You know, you’ve heard me say many times: I intend to be the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history.”

- Joe Biden


Yeah, well they probably voted for Trump anyway.
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Old 11-30-2022, 12:57 PM   #23745 (permalink)
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Yeah, well they probably voted for Trump anyway.
1. Eat ****.

2. I'm sure that now a lot of them will next time at least.
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I don't have a clue here, not having followed the story (and being Irish. And thick) but is this not a case of the state* forbidding the right to strike? Is this not a sort of fascist move? Or am I just so way off here you can't see me? If unions are no longer allowed the option of striking, isn't that some sort of blow against democracy?

* by state I don't mean like New York or Illinois, but the State, as in, the gummint.
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Old 12-01-2022, 02:22 PM   #23747 (permalink)
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It's not specifically fascist but it's definitely authoritarian.
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There's some history behind it. They're enforcing what is called the Taft-Hartley act. This was a bill that allowed the President to halt strikes that could be detrimental to the nation. President Harry Truman actually vetoed the bill but was overriden. Ironically, when the steel union went on strike a year or so later, Truman invoked Taft- Hartley and Presidents have used it as a weapon ever since, sometimes with positive results for the workers, incredible as that sounds.
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Old 12-01-2022, 03:41 PM   #23749 (permalink)
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Airheaded bootlicker. The ability to harm the economy is the only leverage workers have and taking that away means they have no collective means to fight back against capital within the bounds of the law.
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I'm not saying I agree with Taft-Hartley. I'm just saying that it isn't necessarily beneficial to business. Democratic Presidents in particular have used it to bring both sides to the negotiating table and the results have often been favorable to labor.

Anyway, if the railroads go on strike and people have shortages of food as a result, it doesn't look good for their interests in the voting booth, does it?
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