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.