Biden looks to Congress to force deal on railroad workers

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Interestingly, you can convincingly argue that most railroad workers were willing to accept the contract negotiated by the Biden administration and it seems that virtually all of them would support a contract with a few extra sick days. It's utterly despicable that Republicans would oppose adding a few extra sick days to the contract.

Overall, I don't think the Biden administration has received as much credit as it deserves for this deal. He could have blinked before the midterms but his administration didn't immediately try to force railroader workers back to work - they used the threat as leverage to exact some concessions from the carriers. Union leadership thought this was a pretty good deal, as did many workers...

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Biden is the president of the United States. He should obviously be privileging the welfare of the vast majority of working people over one specific group, and a rail strike would be a disaster for working people. Hopefully the unions can still negotiate a good deal, but that shouldn’t be the president’s primary concern.

Literally Reagan Democrat type argument in favor of busting PATCO, right?