Yeah I was originally a Biden hater that supported him purely as a lesser of two evils. But now I fully believe he’s the best president we’ve had in decades (which isn’t a high bar, but still)
Super low bar… There has never been a president in my lifetime that has been on the side of the people of the United States. Biden says he is pro union but time and again backs management over labor. Obviously he is the lesser of two evils but it’s so broken that we keep getting these Boomers again and again that get money from billionaires while the middle class gets crushed.
Even with the rail strike, his administration kept working behind the scenes, and they finally got paid sick leave last month.
If he would’ve listened to his base, and played the short game, rail workers may have had paid leave a few months sooner, but inflation would’ve almost certainly been much worse, which would’ve hurt even more Americans.
That doesn’t strike me a “backing management.” He was weighing the needs of the general public in addition to the specific needs of rail workers. It may have taken a few months longer, but he was able to get paid sick leave while also getting inflation almost back to normal. That’s pretty damn good.
Unless we change the opinions of a large portion of middle Americans or get much higher participation in primaries, we’re stuck with this, and even then those rich and powerful with vested interests in the current system will resist that.
Another improvement would be ranked choice voting and the elimination of the electoral college, but those things also probably require everything you just said.
He didn’t back management at all, actually. Biden got those rail workers the paid sick leave they were asking for without a strike that would have crashed the economy. Which is exactly what he said he was going to do.
"Since then, several other railroad-related unions have also seen success in negotiating for similar sick-day benefits. These 12 unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers.
“Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.”
Biden says he is pro union but time and again backs management over labor.
I disagree, I think Biden has been the most pro-union and pro-labor President in my lifetime, by far. That article is a year out of date, and the Biden admin has kept it up since then. If they’d gotten BBB passed, we’d be in New Deal 2.0 territory. And that’s in two years.
I remember reading into this once. I think it has to do with how the postal governors are set up. I believe a Republican term has to expire before he can put a Democrat in.
Yeah I was originally a Biden hater that supported him purely as a lesser of two evils. But now I fully believe he’s the best president we’ve had in decades (which isn’t a high bar, but still)
Super low bar… There has never been a president in my lifetime that has been on the side of the people of the United States. Biden says he is pro union but time and again backs management over labor. Obviously he is the lesser of two evils but it’s so broken that we keep getting these Boomers again and again that get money from billionaires while the middle class gets crushed.
Even with the rail strike, his administration kept working behind the scenes, and they finally got paid sick leave last month.
If he would’ve listened to his base, and played the short game, rail workers may have had paid leave a few months sooner, but inflation would’ve almost certainly been much worse, which would’ve hurt even more Americans.
That doesn’t strike me a “backing management.” He was weighing the needs of the general public in addition to the specific needs of rail workers. It may have taken a few months longer, but he was able to get paid sick leave while also getting inflation almost back to normal. That’s pretty damn good.
Unless we change the opinions of a large portion of middle Americans or get much higher participation in primaries, we’re stuck with this, and even then those rich and powerful with vested interests in the current system will resist that.
Another improvement would be ranked choice voting and the elimination of the electoral college, but those things also probably require everything you just said.
He didn’t back management at all, actually. Biden got those rail workers the paid sick leave they were asking for without a strike that would have crashed the economy. Which is exactly what he said he was going to do.
"Since then, several other railroad-related unions have also seen success in negotiating for similar sick-day benefits. These 12 unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers.
“Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.”
https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
I disagree, I think Biden has been the most pro-union and pro-labor President in my lifetime, by far. That article is a year out of date, and the Biden admin has kept it up since then. If they’d gotten BBB passed, we’d be in New Deal 2.0 territory. And that’s in two years.
It’s true, but he’s still more pro-management than pro-labor. Why is DeJoy still leading USPS?
I remember reading into this once. I think it has to do with how the postal governors are set up. I believe a Republican term has to expire before he can put a Democrat in.
It’s a really byzantine and archaic system.