After Republican operatives were discovered working for West in North Carolina, someone is paying to help get the progressive candidate on the ballot in another battleground state.
He’s by far done more good than bad. Even the railway workers were resolved in the end (without a shutdown that would have fucked the inflation greed economy even more).
The issue is that by doing this he showed his hand. A strike has two sides to it: the side of the workers and the side of the bosses. Biden’s interference, by executive order, shows which side he’s on. It’s very telling to me that we live in a country where Biden can make it illegal for thousands of people to go on strike, but he doesn’t have the power to force a single corporation to take the deal that’s on the table from their employees. Or if he does, he elects not to do that. Either way, a union has one single recourse against the company it works for: striking. If that’s suddenly off the table, you are effectively toothless in negotiations. Also, it’s fascinating you can say to thousands of people “oh, you don’t want to work anymore? Well, guess what? You have to.” Last time I checked, that’s functionally indentured servitude, if not outright slavery.
There’s a good chance it was manufactured by a combination of Russia->Iran->Hamas triggering i
Not every single thing is a plan by Russia to destabilize the Western world. This conflict had been ongoing for decades. Is this particular escalation of it bad timing? Sure, but it was also a ticking clock.
The issue is that by doing this he showed his hand. A strike has two sides to it: the side of the workers and the side of the bosses. Biden’s interference, by executive order, shows which side he’s on. It’s very telling to me that we live in a country where Biden can make it illegal for thousands of people to go on strike, but he doesn’t have the power to force a single corporation to take the deal that’s on the table from their employees. Or if he does, he elects not to do that. Either way, a union has one single recourse against the company it works for: striking. If that’s suddenly off the table, you are effectively toothless in negotiations. Also, it’s fascinating you can say to thousands of people “oh, you don’t want to work anymore? Well, guess what? You have to.” Last time I checked, that’s functionally indentured servitude, if not outright slavery.
Not every single thing is a plan by Russia to destabilize the Western world. This conflict had been ongoing for decades. Is this particular escalation of it bad timing? Sure, but it was also a ticking clock.