Not sure how I feel about this….

Well…with the major rail unions having a hell of a time getting the owners of the railroads to bargain in good faith even with profits in the billions of dollars, I don’t know how I feel about the Biden administration threatening to impose a no strike law to keep the trains moving. I know a general strike would cripple the economy and would cost the dems in the next election, but we on the left are supposed to support unions and the fact that they lift people out of poverty and give workers a say in their jobs…and unions built the middle class in this country…so why attack them now? I’m not sure if everything that can be done has been done…like getting mediators involved to make sure the owners are bargaining in good faith especially with their history of screwing over their employees and creating terrible working conditions…so what now? At the very least this law should mandate a short cooling off period and then suggest milestones that have to be met in the negotiations and then allow for a strike to happen if there is no progress since that progress is going to hinge on the cooperation of the owners of the railways….it always comes down to the owners trying to steal the contributions of their workers…and that needs to stop not only with the railways but across all industries…after all, the ceo’s make an average of almost 300 times what a worker makes…and that was only about 25 times in the 70′s…so we know where all of the profit goes….geez…

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