The president applauded both sides for coming to an agreement.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    684·
    2 months ago

    Joe doesn’t have a big mouth like Trump, but he actually does accomplish things. Trump’s jealous because he has no clue about how

    Pete Buttigieg was point man and mentioned by both sides. History will tell a story about Pete IMO.

    • popcap200@lemmy.ml
      26·
      2 months ago

      It’s still crazy to me that Trump has all three branches and didn’t pass a single piece of major legislation.

        • popcap200@lemmy.ml
          7·
          2 months ago

          Lmao that’s true. Does that count as major? It PALES in comparison to the Biden Infrastructure bill in terms of scope.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    2 months ago

    We had a major infrastructure strike. It was brief, workers got more of what they wanted on their terms. The sky didn’t fall, the entire economy didn’t immediately collapse.

    All the fearmongering surrounding rail workers being able to strike was anti-labor bullshit.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      Everyone talks like it’s the dock workers going on strike that’s the issue and not the corporations refusing to pay more.

      Businesses make decisions to have a strike by refusing to listen to their hundreds or thousands of workers.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    The article text doesn’t support the headline (“Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic”):

    “ With the grace of God, and the goodwill of neighbors, it’s gonna hold,” President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday night after the agreement.

    In a statement later, Biden applauded both sides “for acting patriotically to reopen our ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding.”

    […]

    Thursday’s deal came after Biden administration officials met with foreign-owned shipping companies before dawn on Zoom, according to a person briefed on the day’s events who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The White House wanted to increase pressure to settle, emphasizing the responsibility to reopen the ports to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene, the person said.

    Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told them she could get the union to the bargaining table to extend the contract if the carriers made a higher wage offer. Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the carriers they had to make an offer by the end of the day so a manmade strike wouldn’t worsen a natural disaster, the person said.

    By midday the Maritime Alliance members agreed to a large increase, bringing about the agreement, according to the person.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    730·
    2 months ago

    Not that I oppose union strikes but it’s kind of dirty to do that to Democrats in the 11th hour. Not like their conditions would improve under Trump…

    So associating bad publicity of obstructing hurricane aid is genius.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      The union demands were extremely reasonable. What’s dirty is that the company would prefer it to get to this stage than actually pay the workers fairly.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      I’m not sorry in the slightest that workers exercised their right to withhold their labor in order to get more favorable terms.

      If you interpret workers having rights as an attack, you should examine what that says about you and your wing of the party.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Supporting the exercising of worker’s rights != exercising them effectively.

        Again, they were short-sighted.