https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/28/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-averting-a-rail-shutdown/

  • culpritus [any]
    ·
    2 years ago

    But at this critical moment for our economy, in the holiday season, we cannot let our strongly held conviction for better outcomes for workers deny workers the benefits of the bargain they reached, and hurl this nation into a devastating rail freight shutdown.

    Think of the TREATS!!!

    I hope the unions see the leverage they can wield here.

      • culpritus [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        It is one hell of a jumbled mess of a sentence.

        we cannot let our strongly held conviction

        [negating our ethics]

        for better outcomes for workers

        [workers deserve better]

        deny workers the benefits

        :mao-wtf:

        of the bargain they reached

        they didn't reach a bargain tho

        :meow-tableflip:

          • Wertheimer [any]
            ·
            2 years ago

            Sorry, sweaty, if you take a day off because you have, I don’t know, a deadly respiratory virus, 765,000 people, including you, will starve to death. That’s just how the world works.

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
          ·
          2 years ago

          they didn’t reach a bargain tho

          labor negotiators did, and that's the weaseling they're doing.

    • yellowfattybean [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      The administration has been pushing off this strike since summer, now they're going to hold the holidays hostage.

      :grillman: Sorry Timmy, you don't get a Christmas puppy this year because the big bad unions wanted two unpaid sick days