I busted my ass working not from home during the pandemic.

Not everyone had the flexibility to work from home. Which makes his condescension that much worse.

Source? Cause no, their demands were not all met.

Not what happened

…this September, Biden reversed course, helping negotiate a deal between railroad bosses and unions that would only grant workers a single paid sick day per year, despite the unions pushing for as many as 15 sick days — a number they were ultimately willing to reduce to as few as four. Now, to avoid a shutdown of the nation’s rail network, he is asking Congress to force that deal on workers who voted to reject it.

So basically he sequestered all the power within his office, and when (not if) that office changes, they lose all they fought for.

Taking power from workers so you can pander to the masses is not a good thing. It erodes the entire fabric of labor rights. It means they have no power to negotiate on their own behalf, and have to wait on the convenience of politicians.

Yea, I obviously don’t expect the president to single handedly change things, the main point was mostly that going for a photo-op is hardly showing support if you are the president, especially in a country where that title is more than symbolic.

Part of the issue is that not enough people vote, period. But the other half of the issue is that some places are highly gerrymandered, which makes voting weighted much more towards a certain party (typically republican, using rural areas to break the power of bigger, well educated cities). They do even more damage by downplaying the power of voting and calling into question the voting system itself. And occasionally making it more difficult to vote (eg, making it so you have to vote in person and stand in long, sunbaked lines when you need to be at work, reducing the time you can mail in your ballot, trying to pass laws that require IDs to be shown, or other things that make it more difficult for low income or young people to vote.)

It’s a difficult problem to solve once it starts, especially since several smaller issues add up to much larger, more difficult to see issues (on voting, it looks like many areas are much more republican than they otherwise should be, even if they had history of being blue or flipping often until voting lines were redrawn. These groups that redraw voting districts are not done by independent government bodies, which makes them susceptible to corruption.)

Many people want change, but aren’t well educated on how to change things, or have the leadership needed to unite areas or otherwise form coalitions.

The same way there’s a vast difference between Germany, Italy, and Hungary, there’s also a massive difference between Rhode Island, Kansas, and Oregon. Though we all vote in federal elections just the same.

“You can’t bargain to your fullest ability, but I’ll put in a good word with your boss” isn’t pro-union. The union needs to have the power to demand and secure those benefits or it serves little benefit and workers are just at the whims of what outside parties think is acceptable.