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[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for posting this. I'm so tired of the rhetoric surrounding the rail strike.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn't allow them to strike. It doesn't matter that they still helped the union negotiate. They kneecapped their bargaining power.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Libs are just as deaf to criticism of their party as conservatives are.

A successful rail strike would have emboldened the working class, whatever the administration did after doesn't negate the damage they did to the current labor movement by stopping it.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

This union didn't vote to strike. They were fine with the original agreement without sick days and didn't have anything taken away in the congressional strike breaking.