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« The House, moving with rare speed, approved the bill on Wednesday. In a statement that perfectly captured the yawning gap between Democratic Party rhetoric and reality, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced railroad companies as rapacious profiteers who “have been selling out to Wall Street to boost their bottom lines, making obscene profits while demanding more and more from railroad workers.” Then, just one sentence later, she announced that House Democrats would stand with the profiteers. »
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this is an op-ed by a member of the NYT editorial board so it's good to see that they at least have okay opinions when it comes to labour
railroad strike
« In June 1992, workers at CSX, one of the nation’s largest freight railroads, went out on strike. Other freight railroads responded by shutting down their own operations, and the industry pressed Congress to impose a new contract on workers. When Congress moved with alacrity to do the industry’s bidding, passing a bill just two days later, Mr. Biden was one of only six senators to vote against the government’s intervention. Then, too, he expressed concern about economic disruptions. “But,” he said at the time, “I am also concerned that we are rewarding a concerted decision of the railroads” not to offer the workers better terms, but instead to rely on the federal government to break the strike. »
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@Lady what do you mean the nyt editorial board has a good and biting opinion
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@aescling well this is just one member
railroad strike
« Mr. Biden has good reason to worry that a strike would cause significant economic disruptions and could add to inflationary pressures.
But the president has picked the wrong side of the fight. He should be pressing the companies to make concessions. »