Just one of the things they say they’ll do for popularity but their ‘big’ donors don’t support, so they compromise or fail heartlessly. Sabotage would require opposition. The two parties have been playing the extortion game far too long.
I think you mean fighting unions, and failing to deliver on the less-than-bare-minimum that he set out to forgive on student debt. It wasn’t sabatoged, it was because he was too busy boming innocent people, backing a genocide, and writing checks to his rich friends to get things done for the voters.
Yep, this was the moment I became completely disillusioned at the Democratic Party. Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden showed his true colors here.
They’re all just corporate fuckwads. The DNC’s reaction to the 2024 loss and “Project 2029” prove they would rather lose than ever run a popular candidate that doesn’t fall in line with their own agenda.
I’m sick of voting for the compromise candidate that merely slows down our descent into fascism. If we’re heading that way anyway, might as well vote for the candidate whose values closest align to our own, democrat or otherwise and be satisfied we stuck to our convictions.
If the Democrats want my vote ever again, they have a lot of work to do to earn it back, and will need to run a candidate I actually want to vote for. I genuinely hope they get there, but I’m not going to be shamed into fruitlessly giving my vote to them again if they don’t.
Totally. I want to like the Democrats, but their leadership keeps shooting themselves in the foot, and blaming the voters. I find that I tend to side with most of their voters, but their leadership is pretty openly antagonstic to their voting-base.
I gave up on the party long ago, but I am pessimistically hopeful that we’ll see them turn around someday. In the meantime, I’d rather put my efforts into other parties that actually fight for what I want.
Yep, this was the moment I became completely disillusioned at the Democratic Party. Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden showed his true colors here.
… when he got the strikers nearly all of their demands through a hostile Congress???
How are 10% less raise than they asked for, 1 additional day off instead of 15, and the inability to say no or continue striking to be “nearly all” of their demands???
They received a 38% total raise when their initial demand was for 31%.
1 additional day off instead of 15,
7 was the initial demand in the negotiations with the railroads; 1 was the initial result, later increased to 4 plus 3 paid personal leave days after an attempt to force the full 7 through Congress was defeated by the GOP.
and the inability to say no or continue striking to be “nearly all” of their demands???
What the ever-loving fuck do you think unions coming to an agreement with the employers results in, if not an agreement to not continue the strike??
Jesus fucking Christ.
Any observers, feel free to downvote me for committing the crime of stating facts that don’t fit the narrative, I understand that the urge to blindly bleat the talking points of favorite media bubbles, a la conservatives with Fox News, is impossible to resist.
See the source in my previous comment. The 31% increase was a total over a period of 5 years (so in 2027 any workers left will get that amount), the jump from 1-4 days off came after Biden’s involvement concluded and yes, the original request was for 15 days off. 7 is less than half of 15.
To answer your question, the unions eventually accepted these terms, but the bill signed by Biden prevented workers from being able to strike again on this issue. This, coupled with the lack of their requested sick time and 5 year waiting period for their agreed upon raise, made clear the focus was on getting the workers back to work, rather than actually addressing their grievances. In short, nothing fundamentally changed. They were just told to go back to work.
Once again, how is this “nearly all” of their demands?
You mean like supporting unions and forgiving student debt? Or do you not count that because republicans sabotaged it?
Just one of the things they say they’ll do for popularity but their ‘big’ donors don’t support, so they compromise or fail heartlessly. Sabotage would require opposition. The two parties have been playing the extortion game far too long.
I think you mean fighting unions, and failing to deliver on the less-than-bare-minimum that he set out to forgive on student debt. It wasn’t sabatoged, it was because he was too busy boming innocent people, backing a genocide, and writing checks to his rich friends to get things done for the voters.
Which unions did he fight? The ones who thanked him for helping them get their demands through?
Are you ignorant or a republican troll?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute
The one that made the strike illegal, and forced the contract through because the members didn’t want it.
Rail.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/rail-unions-hail-bidens-two-person-crew-mandate/
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155763336/freight-rail-workers-union-paid-sick-leave-bernie-sanders-csx
Maybe check what actually happened as a result
I have. Maybe you should read up on it:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/more-than-500-labor-historians-condemn-bidens-intervention-in-freight-rail-dispute/
https://jacobin.com/2022/12/railworkers-basic-control-sick-days-leave-pay-raise-strike-biden-contract
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140265413/rail-workers-biden-unions-freight-railroads-averted-strike
The only people who were happy with it were the unions leaders, who had been pushing against the wishies of the members the entire time.
How curious that my article is more recent than all of yours and include developments giving them more of what they asked for
Yep, this was the moment I became completely disillusioned at the Democratic Party. Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden showed his true colors here.
They’re all just corporate fuckwads. The DNC’s reaction to the 2024 loss and “Project 2029” prove they would rather lose than ever run a popular candidate that doesn’t fall in line with their own agenda.
I’m sick of voting for the compromise candidate that merely slows down our descent into fascism. If we’re heading that way anyway, might as well vote for the candidate whose values closest align to our own, democrat or otherwise and be satisfied we stuck to our convictions.
If the Democrats want my vote ever again, they have a lot of work to do to earn it back, and will need to run a candidate I actually want to vote for. I genuinely hope they get there, but I’m not going to be shamed into fruitlessly giving my vote to them again if they don’t.
Rail.
Totally. I want to like the Democrats, but their leadership keeps shooting themselves in the foot, and blaming the voters. I find that I tend to side with most of their voters, but their leadership is pretty openly antagonstic to their voting-base.
I gave up on the party long ago, but I am pessimistically hopeful that we’ll see them turn around someday. In the meantime, I’d rather put my efforts into other parties that actually fight for what I want.
… when he got the strikers nearly all of their demands through a hostile Congress???
How are 10% less raise than they asked for, 1 additional day off instead of 15, and the inability to say no or continue striking to be “nearly all” of their demands???
They received a 38% total raise when their initial demand was for 31%.
7 was the initial demand in the negotiations with the railroads; 1 was the initial result, later increased to 4 plus 3 paid personal leave days after an attempt to force the full 7 through Congress was defeated by the GOP.
What the ever-loving fuck do you think unions coming to an agreement with the employers results in, if not an agreement to not continue the strike??
Jesus fucking Christ.
Any observers, feel free to downvote me for committing the crime of stating facts that don’t fit the narrative, I understand that the urge to blindly bleat the talking points of favorite media bubbles, a la conservatives with Fox News, is impossible to resist.
See the source in my previous comment. The 31% increase was a total over a period of 5 years (so in 2027 any workers left will get that amount), the jump from 1-4 days off came after Biden’s involvement concluded and yes, the original request was for 15 days off. 7 is less than half of 15.
To answer your question, the unions eventually accepted these terms, but the bill signed by Biden prevented workers from being able to strike again on this issue. This, coupled with the lack of their requested sick time and 5 year waiting period for their agreed upon raise, made clear the focus was on getting the workers back to work, rather than actually addressing their grievances. In short, nothing fundamentally changed. They were just told to go back to work.
Once again, how is this “nearly all” of their demands?