AOC votes to avoid railroad strike after telling workers to 'stay strong'
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President Joe Biden had warned a rail strike could spur a "crippling" national shutdown.

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the majority of lawmakers who backed passing the legislation that notably did not include provisions for paid sick leave. A separate measure that also passed the House Wednesday, however, did include such provisions by giving rail workers seven paid days of sick leave each year.

"If Congress intervenes, it should be to have workers' backs and secure their demands in legislation," she tweeted. In another tweet responding to a union that thanked her for backing rail workers' pleas for paid sick leave provisions, Ocasio-Cortez wrote "Stay strong" and "we've got your back."

A lot of media outlets are wrongfully saying that AOC voted against the back to work bill, but if you check the House Clerk website it's clear that she voted "Yea".

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022490

  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    An 81 year old Bernie Sanders (with absolutely nothing to lose) also indicated that he'll support this atrocious fucking bill in the Senate so long as the proposed 7 days of paid sick days for rail workers recieves a vote. It doesn't even need to pass, he'll refuse to filibuster one of the most anti-worker bills in recent decades over a meaningless promise.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Serious question - What reasons has he given for supporting the bill? Has he actually used a word or phrase like "we must be realistic"?

      Scab Sanders - say it ain't so. I can't stomach listening to his voice or even reading about him at this point.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Scab Sanders - say it ain’t so. I can’t stomach listening to his voice or even reading about him at this point.

        All liberal politicians will betray you. It is baked into the system.

      • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Sanders supporters are now arguing that getting a vote on 7 paid sick days is a monumental achievement for worker rights that everybody on the left should be proud of, and are more-or-less ignoring the fact that he's helping squash the right to collective bargaining to get it.

        I imagine he'd say something similar if asked, despite 7 paid sick days being pitifully little by itself and will likely be nothing more than a symbolic gesture that allows him to shrug his shoulders and say that he tried.