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"The Senate voted on Thursday to reject a proposal to give railway workers seven days of sick leave, a benefit that was left out of a labor deal brokered by the presidential emergency board between freight rail companies and unionized workers."

:death-to-the-poor:

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Exactly. the democrats could have tied the bills together to both end the strike and give the workers sick leave, but because they are bourgeois, they didn't actually want to do that, so they kept their strike breaking compromise and their sick leave "demands" separate. Why separate your compromise and your demands unless you want to lose all your leverage? Oh, right. because they never cared to begin with.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        Union leadership didn't ask her, they simply "agreed" with the plan, or so she claims, the rank and file want 14 days and their right to strike

        AOC and every other member of the house knew the 7-day compromise would fail in the senate, the point was to provide 48 hours of political cover for the strike-breaking congress just pulled

        • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
          ·
          2 years ago

          Also everyone should be aware that AOC co-opts (and misrepresents) labor shit she isn't actually involved in. Talk to ALU folks in NYC.

          • Tachanka [comrade/them]
            ·
            2 years ago

            well the unions rejected the compromise their management gave them. the point of strikes is to jeopardize the profits of capitalists to receive better concessions. if they aren't allowed to go through with that because congress stopped them and forced them to accept sub-par (or in this case, zero) concessions, then nobody was actually "helped"

          • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
            ·
            2 years ago

            She's doing the strike breaking thing but wants plausible deniability.

            This is how "progressives" do the bad things. They give up all of their leverage, support the bad thing in favor of wishes and promises, then don't actually get the results of the wishes and promises and go, "aw shucks".

            You're supposed to think this is smart and good strategy, lol. You're also meant to think this is unintentional and they're just very dumb people making the same obvious mistake multiple times per year.

            • Tachanka [comrade/them]
              ·
              2 years ago

              bourgeois reformist bingo card playbook

              • rotating villain in party to prevent reforms from passing (sinema, manchin)
              • give up leverage at critical moment to "compromise" with reactionary colleagues
              • get rugpulled at the last minute on purpose and play dumb about it
              • constantly "worry" about appearing "too extreme" for the "centrist voter" and punch left as a "solution"
              • combine bills/motions/clauses/provisions that ought not to be combined
              • separate bills/motions/clauses/provisions that ought not to be separated
              • always talk about your intentions
              • block party movement to the left
              • allow party movement to the right
              • tell marginalized/powerless groups that you "feel their pain"
              • tell marginalized/powerless groups that "now is not the right time for reform"
              • tell marginalized/powerless groups to not be violent because it will ruin the reputation and electoral potential of the party
              • tell marginalized/powerless groups to "be patient"
              • denounce human rights abuses (of dubious authencity) in a foreign country
              • advocate for military intervention to fix those human rights abuses (of dubious authenticity)
              • ignore/downplay those same human rights abuses going on in the home country
              • accept donations from the private sector
              • fulfill the wishes of donors under any circumstances because their donations are large and tend to repeat
              • accept donations from voters
              • do not under any circumstances fulfill the wishes of voters because their donations are too small and tend not to repeat
              • privatize the public sector
              • push private costs of doing business onto the public
              • deregulate industry
              • push for austerity
              • crush organized labor
              • distract from class consciousness
              • if you "solve" a problem make sure to solve it in an impermanent way so they can come back before the election cycle
              • never purge your "enemies" (colleagues) because you need the threat of them winning to keep your voters in line
              • never under any circumstances change the mode of production