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

  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    BNSF, the Warren Buffet owned company whose refusal to budge on sick days is a key cause of railroad worker unrest, earned 6 billion dollars in profit throughout 2021. That same year they had 35,000 employees . They could have given each of them a $150,000 bonus and still had 725 million dollars left over.

    Nice that Brandon still has their back!

    • plinky [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Why do they demand so little? :meow-tableflip: ask 100k a year and sick week off, then negotiate down

      • MedicareForSome [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Probably because they know that if they ask for "too much" the lying media will have a field day with "greedy rail workers"

        • plinky [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Does the media make train go choo-choo? Dock workers got shit on constantly, they still have most labor power and salaries for decades