“How would [the President literally joining the picket line] help? What’s the hypothesis about whether that would increase the likelihood of getting to a deal?” said Seth Harris, the former deputy assistant to Biden for Labor and deputy director of his National Economic Council.
i mean, a sitting president joining a picket line and vocally supporting a strike action might apply pressure to management to come to a deal sooner. though, that would probably mean the terms would be better for labor, which is absolutely something i would expect a Biden gremlin to find unacceptable.
no, the best thing here is to completely ignore any worker action, bury any coverage, and pretend like they aren't happening so nobody else gets any ideas.
the best thing here is to completely ignore any worker action, bury any coverage, and pretend like they aren't happening so nobody else gets any ideas.
Ignore? I think you mean "declare it illegal" 😎😎😎
Well of course, everyone knows that leadership and public pressure and perception are actually completely untethered from labor action. Strikes and picketing are just games of chance workers sometimes like to play. 🙄
Back in 2007, in the heat of the 2008 primary campaign (when many unions backed Hillary Clinton), Barack Obama promised a crowd in South Carolina:
“If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I’ll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America.”
Debbie Dingell has been the 6th district representative since 2015. She is the widow of John Dingell Jr, her predecessor in the seat, who died in office. He holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, holding his seat for 60 years. John Dingell Jr is the son of John Dingell Sr, who held the same seat when it was established in 1933 and died in office after 22 years.
Totally not an aristocraticy.
It's a shame we don't teach our recent history, it's a comedy goldmine.
Weirdly, American politicians are actually characters in a television sitcom in a higher mathematical dimension. None of the rest of us are, just the politicians.
You never see their particular strain of behavior/attitude anywhere else except on Broadway and upper management. There's a distinct breed of cartoon characters who make up the only class with means
Sitting atop the modern industrial hyperobject called 'civilization' gives people a very funny perspective.
takes a fat bong rip
Think about this while looking at a picture of earth from space on the night side where all the roads and cities can be made out. You realize humanity is a super organism on a totally different level that puts to shame other social animals like ants, bees, termites, and certain rodents. It is just that unlike most other species on earth humanity forms a hyper-object that is hard to bring into focus. Feeling like one personally is 'the great man' at the head of this hyper object of an organism would make anyone start having grandiose delusions about their self worth even while intellectually knowing that if they abruptly disappeared, like with single cells in a multicellular organism, another human individual would for better or worse immediately shift into carrying out their social role.
are you out of your fucking minds?
yes, biden is quite obviously out of his mind. he's the world's most senile man, how could he not be?
Death to America
He'll just declare them an essential industry and force them back to work like with the rail employees.
