Every Big Name Urging Biden To Drop Out: First Major Union Joins 34 Democrats In Congress
Every Big Name Urging Biden To Drop Out: First Major Union Joins 34 Democrats In Congress
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Every Big Name Urging Biden To Drop Out: First Major Union Joins 35 Democrats In Congress
Teamsters?
Brb
Edit: It wasn't a major union; it was the Local 3000 chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
I'm tired, boss. I wanted to dig up a story about the massive list of unions that are specifically still supporting Biden, citing as their reason the wide support he has because their members know and care what he did for them even if the media doesn’t, and saying sensible things like, Harris is fine but IDK if she can win the election, but I have not the energy and what’s the point of citing the story anyway. I can already feel the tide of low effort comments that would ensue in response.
Where is all this supposed "pro-union" stuff from biden? He'd better have done a fucking lot since he publicly fucked over rail workers and only gave them a tiny bit of the sick leave they demanded. Or are you just gonna cite how he's working to expand our oil industry and the jobs that created?
Sure
So one of Biden’s FIRST actions in office was to fire the piece of shit that Trump put in charge of the NLRB. He literally did it on his first day, short cutting the normal procedure for it, which actually caused a little bit of a fight, and then put in a whole bunch of actually pro-labor people. They’ve been backstopping all these pretty remarkable union gains that have been happening the last few years.
The Teamsters, for whatever stupid/corrupt reason, are pretty much the only union that hasn’t come out swinging hard for Biden in the election, because unlike the media they are aware of how much things have been changing for them in the last few years and want it to continue instead of Trump putting Margaret Thatcher in charge of the NLRB of whatever the fuck he wants to do instead.
Oh, and also he broke a rail strike that would have caused some inflation (which I know the media and the people on Lemmy would have been super understanding of the full context of and wouldn’t have caused any problems), and then once no one was paying attention anymore, his administration kept working the issue and got the workers the sick days they were striking for in the first place. So you I guess you do have a point that he’s horrible. I take it all back.
I actually do think an American president should go further than that -- if the rail workers want to strike, then god bless 'em, and if the economy suffers then it should have treated its workers like humans and can go on suffering until that starts happening. But the idea that Biden is somehow a downward departure from the norm for US presidents or that he didn't go to bat for unions in pretty much every other one of the 99% of things that happened during his term is absurd.
we're all waiting for your reply to that well-written response
don't forget to thank them for informing you where other media seemingly failed. you could also apologize for making your angry, disrespectful comment in response to theirs when it didn't need to be