Uh...they could say "this is not what we wanted, this is bullshit, but we'll take it if we have to" because there's utterly not one thing stopping them from saying that.
Do you not understand that the initial demands from the union were MORE than they actually wanted to get in the end? Because that's how negotiations work. What everybody is demanding in the opening round is not what anyone actually expects to get in the end.
The union itself reporting this as a win tells me that this is where they were hoping to end up, or very close to it
Oh come on. Better terms for owners would have been doing absolutely nothing and leaving the rail workers with zero paid sick leave.
Public opinion is a reality whether you like it or not. An unpopular strike that disrupted regular people's lives might sound like a great idea in your utopia, but here in the real world what it's likely to accomplish is support for the suppression of strikes. You can't FORCE class consciousness onto people. You can try, but it's not going to work.
The union itself is reporting this as a win. How is that not enough for you?
"After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.
Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.”
Cue leftists: "Yes our stated goals were achieved and objections overcome, but it didn't arrived perfectly packaged with a bow on top looking like our ideal utopia, therefore all problems with progress are clearly the Democrats fault."
Seriously, please stop. Progress is never going to occur in exactly the way you think it should. It's still progress. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
This for real. I feel like some very recent history is being erased (on purpose) by those who want us to believe there's no way to reform our current system into something more sane and sustainable.
When I started my management career about 25 years ago, the prevailing mantra was to treat your employees well because while loss of expensive, experienced employees might net more in the short term, it degrades the long-term, sustainable growth of a corporation because you end up in a never-ending cycle of expensive hiring and training, which degrades your product and the customer experience and your brand.
Then we allowed this unfettered, competition-destroying consolidation of monopolies that allowed companies to stop caring about the quality of their products and the customer experience because where else are you gonna go when they have you trapped in their proprietary ecosystem? So why should a company worry about employee satisfaction and retention, if they're going to have customers anyway.
We need a new round of trust-busting and strong anti-monopoly legislation, consumer protections, labor protections. There is a way.
But here we are stuck battling impending fascism instead because the corpos would like to have their monopolies forever, please and thank you.
This is why my backpack has a patch that reads:
"Evil is boring"
It's literally the exact same words, the exact same playbook every. single. time. And it's exhausting.
Evil is not capable of creating anything new. Like you said, if we didn't have to divert our energy to fighting this nonsense, so much more creation of new, good, interesting things could be accomplished.
It's apocryphal. Apparently he told at least one friend at the time that he had done it. Whether he actually did it or just thought about it and was being a dramatic young man will never be known.
I also express little sympathy for people who worry more about the side effects of the Covid vaccine than they do about the negative effects of actual Covid. Because one of those things is an actual serious problem, and the other is a boogeyman used for political purposes.
Supported by data. You know, kind of like the difference between false accusations of rape and ACTUAL RAPE.
It is far, far more common for women who allege to be completely ignored, ridiculed, dragged through the mud should they choose to pursue charges. That's a simple fact of the world. RAPE IS A BIGGER PROBLEM THAN FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS.
Because those of us who could vote with our feet DID. Stop blaming those left behind. If you improve those areas, a lot of us would go back home and you'd see the politics change.
And also, there's a majority there now because those of us who could vote with our feet did.
I'm part of the Appalachian diaspora. I grew up knowing my extended family closely and now we're all spread across the country, leaving none of us at home to vote sensibly. The dismantling of my family structure and so many others like me is a silent tragedy of the past two generations.
You're living in a dream land if you think going to the police with nothing more than "yes I went over to his house consensually and it turned bad from there" is likely to result in a legal prosecution.
Ok, now on this point I agree with you completely. If losing a service will do that much damage to the public, then that service should be socialized.