President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan on Tuesday and walk the picket line with members of the United Auto Workers union, he announced Friday, a trip that comes after the president faced political pressure to ramp up his public support for the union members.
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.