lennybird

Supporting the exercising of worker's rights != exercising them effectively.

Again, they were short-sighted.

You said it hits them "hardest," but how do you know it doesn't hit the poor and middle class down the pipeline harder, comparatively? What you're talking about is profits; what I'm talking about is clothing and food for actual people and a raising of bottom-line prices. Make no mistake — the consequence of such a strike comes at the cost of holding those down the line hostage. Naturally the shareholders tend to have a rainy-day fund in order to ride out the storm. Naturally the wealthy can weather such storms easier than the poor and middle class, yes?

In fact this goes back to this very strike covered in this submission, in which Biden pointed out to the nnion that their strike would effect... Who? Those impacted by Hurricane Helene.

Hardest is therefore relative.

Biden said he is not giving up on paid sick leave for rail workers and other Americans who don't receive such benefits. But he made it clear that he was not prepared to see freight trains stopped and food, water, clothing, and holiday gifts stranged in empty depots.

This mind you as we were just getting past the worst of the covid pandemic. Do you have any source to suggest this would impact the shareholders "the hardest"?

Reminder that yet again — this per Bernie Sanders — the expanded sick leave for all rail workers was obstructed by Republicans. Screwing over Democrats during election season is, again, short-sighted. Perhaps those unions from the Teamsters to the longshoremen should rally to get Republicans out of the way?

It's more, "they know not what they do."

Many are too shortsighted to grasp that their own beliefs fuel their own pain.

Still, I don't blame the grifted as much as I do the grifters.

Uh oh me thinks Trump is jealous of Carter's media attention. Mortality is also likely weighing heavily on the rotten orange, too.

This is how democracy dies in darkness... Behind paywalls.

Wasn't that really the days of Digg? I can't even remember such eons ago...

I sadly was one of those duped, hot off of reading Atlas Shrugged no less at a more impressionable time in my life. Thank fuck I crawled my way out.

Isn't it kind of funny the party who routinely espouses individual freedumb is like, "let's let states decide!" without recognizing the irony that it's just one more granular step to saying, "let's let each individual woman decide!"

Best way to get the young male vote to be honest. Isn't this part of what made Ron Paul popular?

"from AOC to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift."

Taylor Swift confirmed more right-wing than Cheney!1!