crossleft:

zoethebitch:

the “most pro-labor president in history” says christmas shopping is more important than sick leave for rail workers so he’s forcing a deal thru that workers have rejected and forbidding them from striking

Management didn’t take workers seriously because they knew if it came to it the gerontocracy would side with them like they always do. Workers were asking for bare minimum reasonable demands like 15 days off a year, and the Biden deal gives them just 1. What an absolute fucking clown, if they strike (which they definitely should at this point as one of the last viable unions) there’s gonna end up being a massive supply chain crisis. Fuck luxury goods taking a little longer to arrive we’re talking food riots, trucking can’t even come close to making up the difference if it came to it. As one of the last unions with real stopping power in the country (cop unions don’t count, acab) I really hope they stretch their legs and make the oligarchs sweat.