A recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it?

A recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it?

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
    -2•1 year ago

    Uh… The railway union got their demands in the end. Biden just did it without paralyzing the economy. Quick reminder that strikes are a means (and not one you wanna use, at that), not an end.

    • Black AOC
      6•1 year ago

      (and not one you wanna use, at that)

      If the execs won’t give labor what they’re due, labor is within their rights to take them by the short hairs for as long as it takes. Beyond that, they didn’t get the paid sick leave that was on the demands, and they have to burn their own leave time for sick days. You know, half the fucking reason they struck in the first place that isn’t the ATROCIOUSLY dilapidated state of our nation’s rails, and lack of proper safety inspections that will lead to more catastrophic derailings. One fucking extra day, wooo. Some victory.

      But y’know, you get your freight on time so I guess that’s a victory for you, huh? And honestly, fuck your conciliatory figureheads. You want me to take you serious, show me what the actual rank-and-file are saying.

            • queermunist she/her
              1•1 year ago

              You linked to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, this agreement is for their members specifically.

              • NoneOfUrBusiness
                1•1 year ago

                So the best one I found was this, which is from back when the negotiations were still in progress but mostly done, but my understanding is that in the end the unions who it says are still negotiating got similar outcomes.

                • queermunist she/her
                  -1•1 year ago

                  CSX was the first to grant paid sick days to several of its unions and has now granted sick days to 61% of its 17,089 unionized employees.

                  Union Pacific has granted sick days to 47% of its workers, Norfolk Southern to 46%, and BNSF, the largest freight railroad, to 31%.

                  I guess only somewhere between 1/3-2/3 of workers are human and deserve sick days. The rest are animals. Or maybe robots, to be replaced when they fail from being overworked.

                  An injury to one is an injury to all. Fuck this.

                  • NoneOfUrBusiness
                    1•1 year ago

                    It does say the rest are (or were, at the time) work in progress. See: The IBEW, which were still negotiating at the time of writing this article but got their sick days when the other one was written.