I'm going to vote to make my voice heard! :blob-no-thoughts:

I can't let you do that, Jack :biden-troll:

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Wait, this is still going on? Does this mean the news about Biden brokering a deal between the railroads and the unions was bullshit?

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I believe his brokering was just proposing something and the union would then take to membership. And they, correctly, didn't accept it.

      But I might be getting my bargaining stuff confused don't quote me.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Was there a deal? As I understand it, I thought they drew up a contract proposal that was in line with what the PEB recommended and the individual unions are voting it down.

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        The PEB put out their recommendations, the union members voted it down. At the last minute before a strike could be authorized, the union leadership sat down with the PEB again and formed a "tentative agreement" which was the same shit contract plus like one extra sick day and some limits on how much the price of the health plan could go up. They did this deliberately to prevent a strike by forcing the union membership to vote all over again on what was essentially the same contract.

        At this rate, it's looking like the union leaders will bear the responsiblity for delaying a strike until the Republicans can take congress and force the shit contract with legislation.

        • Commander_Data [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Lol, why fight with the bosses when you can fight with union leadership, instead. We're gonna need a deeper mine.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      the railroads put together a Real Bargain™️, which the Collective has rejected. Under the terms of The Deal of the Century Act of 1919, this is illegal and now they all have to go to work or jail due to the precedent set by Money v. Humans where it was determined that Money has full protection of the law, but Humans are evil and bad and communist.