• Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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    111 months ago

    The labor movement has been kicking ass recently since 2020; even my state is super anti-union and now we have unions or unionization efforts sprouting up all over the place.

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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    111 months ago

    That’s good. A pity that the railroad strike was shut down. Many wanted to do it anyway, but from a tactical perspective, it would’ve been the wrong move. But if the government shuts down another strike, they’re going to have to be more bold next time, otherwise it’ll send a message that the first time of shutting down a strike wasn’t a fluke, but a repeatable success.

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    111 months ago

    "We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

    Brandon was involved, trust me bro. We just can’t tell you how, then we’d have to kill you.