He signed a bill that was agreed upon by 75% of the Unions. You act like Biden sat in a room with a quarter million railroad workers and told them to go fuck themselves. He met with their leadership, and the majority of the leadership agreed on the bill. If only 25% of the leaders had agreed, Biden may have done more, but getting 75% of any group to agree on politics is a fucking miracle, and you take those when you get them.
You can’t say that the workers were being represented properly and in the same breath say that their representatives went against their wishes when they supported the bill. It seems like you have an axe to grind about Biden, and you are letting your feelings about him affect your decision making process. You should probably vote 3rd party next year to cleanse your conscience.
He signed a bill that was agreed upon by 75% of the Unions.
That’s not how democracy works!
One person, one vote. There were multiple unions that were voting together as a group, and each union represented different numbers of people. The unions that represented the most people voted against the agreement and that’s why they were going to strike!
The majority. Of workers. Voted to strike. The majority. Of workers. Were betrayed by Biden and continue to be betrayed by shits like you. The rank-and-file voted to strike and they were going to strike and then Biden shut it down.
When a majority of voters vote “no” then the result is no, no matter what unions they belong to. It’s called solidarity. You don’t seem to understand how voting works, how unions work, or what Biden actually did to stop the strike from happening.
If I wanted to cast a vote that matters this election I would cast a 9mm ballot into my fucking mouth. Seems more productive.
If I wanted to cast a vote that matters this election I would cast a 9mm ballot into my fucking mouth. Seems more productive.
I knew we would find something to agree on.
I’ll edit this with a real reply:
That’s not how democracy works!
One person, one vote. There were multiple unions that were voting together as a group, and each union represented different numbers of people.
Welcome to unionizing. You give up the voice of the many to have a stronger singular voice. Unions aren’t genies there to grant the wishes of every person that pays dues, they represent the masses by giving them a single voice. You are looking at this like all of the people that were put out agreed 100% with each other, and we know that isn’t true. They all had different visions of how things should work, and while that venn diagram had a good amount of overlap, it wasn’t unanimous. If it was, they wouldn’t need a Union rep. It doesn’t matter how many people each Union had, it was still a singular class. If you don’t like that, then I invite you to figure out a better way to do it, and then present your findings to America’s labor unions and get them all to agree on it.
When a majority of voters vote “no” then the result is no, no matter what unions they belong to. It’s called solidarity. You don’t seem to understand how voting works, how unions work, or what Biden actually did to stop the strike from happening.
When a majority of voters vote “no”, then their representative votes “no”. And when that vote is cast along with all of the other representatives, then the votes are tallied and a consensus is reached. Please don’t lecture me on how to vote, I’ve seen the Schoolhouse Rock video, I’m well aware of how things work. If you don’t like this system, then you should find some like minded people, and form a group, and then using the power of your collective voice tell the government that it needs to change… wait… that’s just a fucking union.
The system was going to strike! The system was working correctly when the majority of workers voted to reject the contract and the contract was rejected. Biden and Congress stopped the system from working. Why do you keep lying about this?
You keep saying a majority of unions voted against the strike but that isn’t how votes were actually counted!
And when the majority of workers vote to strike, the workers that vote against it stand with them in solidarity.
You keep insisting that Biden was blameless, but there was going to be a strike. The democratic result of the vote, where the majority voted to strike, was going to happen. The rank-and-file democratic majority won. Democracy was working.
Biden and Congress are the reason the strike was broken. Stop with your historical revisionism.
Why do you pretend to care so much when you didn’t care enough to Google what happened after the bill passed?
https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/22Daily/2208/220917_thanks
Like, your anger here is entirely performative. That doesn’t strike you as odd?
This is only one of the many unions that voted. You’re just assuming they represent everyone.
And you’re calling my posting performative. You don’t even know what the stakes were.
Here’s a hint: safety and derailments were one of the issues, and would you look at that, derailments are still happening!
