Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoBiden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patrioticfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down17
arrow-up1146arrow-down1external-linkBiden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patrioticfortune.comRapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarelennybird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down30·2 months agoNot 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.
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoThe 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.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoI’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.
minus-squarelennybird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoSupporting the exercising of worker’s rights != exercising them effectively. Again, they were short-sighted.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago Again, they were short-sighted. Yeah, it’s never the fucking time, is it?
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.
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.
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.
Supporting the exercising of worker’s rights != exercising them effectively.
Again, they were short-sighted.
Yeah, it’s never the fucking time, is it?