Biden’s numbers among young voters have slid during his presidency from the high margins that helped him beat Trump. Several former supporters explain why.
My problems with Biden are not solely related to Israel, we also have him not supporting unions.
I don’t know where you are getting your info but you are totally wrong. Biden is responsible for the resurgence of unions we’ve been experiencing:
Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board released its most important ruling in many decades. In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of a company’s employees file union affiliation cards, the employer can either voluntarily recognize their union or, if not, ask the Board to run a union recognition election. If, in the run-up to or during that election, the employer commits an unfair labor practice, such as illegally firing pro-union workers (which has become routine in nearly every such election over the past 40 years, as the penalties have been negligible), the Board will order the employer to recognize the union and enter forthwith into bargaining.
The Cemex decision was preceded by another, one day earlier, in which the Board, also along party lines, set out rules for representation elections which required them to be held promptly after the Board had been asked to conduct them, curtailing employers’ ability to delay them, often indefinitely.
Taken together, this one-two punch effectively makes union organizing possible again, after decades in which unpunished employer illegality was the most decisive factor in reducing the nation’s rate of private-sector unionization from roughly 35 percent to the bare 6 percent at which it stands today. https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-workers-rights-back/
This is thanks to Biden’s appointments to the NLRB. He’s done more to support unions than any president in my lifetime.
“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.
“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”
While President Joe Biden was calling on Congress in November to pass legislation to implement the agreement, he stressed that he would continue to encourage the railroads to guarantee paid sick time for their employees.
“I share workers’ concern about the inability to take leave to recover from illness or care for a sick family member,” Biden said. “I have pressed legislation and proposals to advance the cause of paid leave in my two years in office and will continue to do so.” https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
Biden himself explained why he signed the bill:
“It was tough for me but it was the right thing to do at the moment – save jobs, to protect millions of working families from harm and disruption and to keep supply chains stable around the holidays,” Biden said, adding the deal avoided “an economic catastrophe.”
Eight of 12 unions had ratified the deal. But some labor leaders have criticized Biden, a self-described friend of labor, for asking Congress to impose a contract that workers in four unions have rejected over its lack of paid sick leave.
“That fight isn’t over,” Biden said of the push for sick leave. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-railroad-strike-2022-12-02/
I imagine if the economy tanked under his watch he would have been blamed for that as well.
I don’t know where you are getting your info but you are totally wrong. Biden is responsible for the resurgence of unions we’ve been experiencing:
This is thanks to Biden’s appointments to the NLRB. He’s done more to support unions than any president in my lifetime.
So why did he turn his back on the railroad workers?
According to the IBEW, he didn’t:
Biden himself explained why he signed the bill:
I imagine if the economy tanked under his watch he would have been blamed for that as well.
Fair enough, I will take that off of the list.