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

      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.