The union still has to vote on it, so I don't know why everyone is saying it's over and averted already.
ONE? jfc i hate union leadership, take EVERYTHING, you have those motherfuckers by the balls with how much youre threatening them
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The deal gives the union members an immediate 14% raise with back pay dating back to 2020, and raises totaling 24% during the five-year life of the contract, that runs from 2020 through 2024. It also gives them cash bonuses of $1,000 a year. All told, the backpay and earlier bonuses will give union members an average of an $11,000 payment per person once the deal is ratified.
The union said the deal provides one additional paid day off a year as well a protections against discipline if they need time off to attend to routine and preventative medical care, as well as exemptions from attendance policies for hospitalizations and surgical procedures. Railroad actions against workers who were unable to be on call or report to work due to medical issues had stoked anger among union members.
So its 1 day a year plus around 11k plus basic sanity rules for healthcare. The raise is nice but fuck they have like zero off time from what I've seen, far less than in Europe
Also has to be ratified by the union membership vote
the union is the whorehouse of western politics and the union leadership are the pimps.
It's a tough position to be in for union leadership. Striking means all the members won't be getting paid for an indeterminate amount of time and missing even a single paycheck, can lead to serious, perhaps even catastrophic, consequences to some member's lives. I personally think it should ALWAYS be up to rank and file to reject a deal prior to a strike.
Leadership's role in the negotiating room is to get the best contract that the cultural, political and financial environment allows. Their role is not to unitarily decide whether the deal is good enough. Of course there are common sense, "go fuck yourself, this isn't enough" stances that are perfectly appropriate for negotiators to adopt, say if an aspect of the deal is not ratifiable on its face, but if there's a strike on the horizon, membership should be deciding whether or not to turn the wheel and avoid the collision not leadership. The real power of the union is it's members and they should be making decisions, not leadership.
This can lengthen time lines and delay justice and get people seeing conspiracy where there isn't, but it's NECESSARY if you want the kind of union that doesn't end up with a boss tweed type calling the shots and enriching leaders at the expense of the members.
The American government will not allow such a significant strike. They will gun down striking workers before allowing the supply chain to break. That's said:
But the statement from Biden indicated that the major sticking point -- involving work rules and scheduling issues -- that had brought the country within a day of its first national rail strike in 30 years had been addressed in the unions' favor.
It seems the unions got what they wanted for now, though it would not have be possible without the looming threat of a strike. And sorry to rain on anyone's parade but I would expect the membership to accept this offer, they got their primary demand with scheduling changes. They aren't militant communists (yet, we gotta work on that). Still it is another success for the American labor movement.
They’re straight up lying. The deal is still shit. They are getting one extra annual day off and an option for unpaid sick leave. This deal is shit and if early indications are right the rank and file will reject it.
The union said the deal provides one additional paid day off a year as well a protections against discipline if they need time off to attend to routine and preventative medical care, as well as exemptions from attendance policies for hospitalizations and surgical procedures. Railroad actions against workers who were unable to be on call or report to work due to medical issues had stoked anger among union members.
This was already buried in the article under a mountain of spin from the administration. And even then, the idea that these concessions address their grievances is laughable. Perpetually on call and literally unable see your family for months at a time, but at least your boss won’t directly yell at you for going to the ER if you collapse from the lack of sleep
It is, and since it's such a small win, the railway system will continue to haemorrhage since it's not worth staying there for skilled staff. The companies just kicked total collapse down the road 3-4 years.
The companies just kicked total collapse down the road 3-4 years.
That works for Dark Brandon since he won't be in office then.
They will gun down striking workers before allowing the supply chain to break
:data-laughing: the US is way too dysfunctional to actually coordinate that, they can't fix or direct 'supply chains' when there isn't a strike on lol
They got one day of paid leave. That's pathetic. They need to make the country bleed.
The union still has to vote on it, so I don’t know why everyone is saying it’s over and averted already.
The fix is already in. This is the second article that mainstream Americans have ever heard about the railroad strike. Yesterday Americans were told to panic, today they are told they're saved. If workers strike Americans will be big mad at uppity engineers that already got everything they wanted. Workers didn't, but that's not what the media told America (who only reads headlines).
"One additional paid day off per year" yeah this can't possibly be enough. The railroaders are stretched so thin as it is, nothing is really changing in this regard. The pay day might be nice but the job is still untenable.
This is what yellow unions will get you folks, capitulation and nothing else.
Someone who gets weekends off and no PTO will get at least 105 days off a year, and that’s if they work on federally mandated holidays. Rail workers get 30 (now 31). Period. Their days off are unpaid. Shit is crazy
It has at least been averted for now. Union-Lover Joe does it again, thanks king
so I don’t know why everyone is saying it’s over and averted already.
100% to demoralize members into thinking they lost before their own communiqués get to them
