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Winchery t1_j5u5qlu wrote

Reply to comment by processedmeat in Major railroad posts record earnings, spends more on share repurchases than on its employees by esporx

Reread what I said. I didn't justify anything. I just laid out the facts.

Anyone that has ever worked in the cab of a locomotive or on the ground in a yard knows that the workforce is EXTREMELY conservative. Every single day at work you will have at least half of your day wasted hearing about how bad and evil democrats are and how bad unions suck while they vote for people that dismantle their unions.

They think companies should be able to do whatever they want with impunity except when it affects them. They honestly don't deserve any help in that industry.

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processedmeat t1_j5u79j1 wrote

You

>Reread what I said. I didn't justify anything.

Also you

>Anyone that has ever worked in the cab of a locomotive or on the ground in a yard knows that the workforce is EXTREMELY conservative. They honestly don't deserve any help in that industry.

If someone is pro labor they should support labor no matter the political leanings of the majority of people in the field.

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Winchery t1_j5u8847 wrote

That's just your opinion. I am pro labor, but if a sector is 95% hardcore conservative, I would like to see the unions fully abandon that sector and let the mighty hand of the free market dictate work rules and pay.

You have to look at the big picture. Railroads collectively spend more time, money and effort dismantling unions than any other industry out there. The mere fact that railroaders have a union when they hate them so much is doing a large amount of harm to unions in other sectors with memberships that aren't joining their employers in dismantling their own unions.

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processedmeat t1_j5ua0cy wrote

Even if the railroad didn't have a union you should still support them in getting better working conditions.

Being conservative or liberal is irrelevant. Pro union or anti union is doesn't matter. Labor deserves better working conditions.

With Biden supporting the company over the workers he is supporting management over labor. It signals the next company that the government will have their back in the next dispute.

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Winchery t1_j5uhbgg wrote

Biden and democrats have to play games since republicans have made government into gaming the idiot public.

We would be a lot worse off if you can convince even more voters that Biden directly made the cost of items go up even more had he allowed rails to strike.

This is checkers bud. Deep thinking not required. You can pretend like supporting all worker no matter what is going to help, but you fuck a lot more people if you end up having democrats lose all power in government. You are basically saying short-term support is fine even though it will allow the openly corrupt party to control everything.

Again, your idea only requires checkers level of strategy to see the results. In this case I am just glad that the workforce that needed to be sacrificed for the greater good supports the people that want to fuck them.

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