• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like Biden got them more than zero.

    Progress comes in steps, and I expect leaders to take steps, not cast miracles

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      1 year ago

      Strike action may well have gotten a far larger step.

      If he couldn’t get at LEAST as much as the workers could’ve gotten themselves, the federal government should have stayed out of it.

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        1 year ago

        “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,” paraphrasing Spock

        The fact that Biden even stepped on at all, should tell you how bad the situation was. Also he’s not talking absolutely all the credit for this. Biden wasn’t there to make demands, he acted as a mediator to try and resolve this issue before it could hurt the country he was responsible for.

        The government cannot just force a company to make drastic financial policy changes. I do wish they’d dictate CEO wage limitations, but that is a different discussion.

        You’d rather have a massive impact to every citizens life occur, than guaranteed sick days?

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          1 year ago

          You’d rather have a massive impact to every citizens life occur

          Yes, we need to have an impact to draw attention to the fact that ANY worker has to fight for something as basic as SICK DAYS. That shouldn’t be a question, let alone for workers supposedly so important to the economy.

          The system is broken, either the government doesn’t want to give workers basic protections or isn’t able to stand up to the rail conglomerates. Either way, shit’s broken. It’s gonna take some disruption to make progress.

          And anyway, such strikes aren’t uncommon around the world. We would survive just fine.