Winchery
Winchery t1_j5u8847 wrote
Reply to comment by processedmeat in Major railroad posts record earnings, spends more on share repurchases than on its employees by esporx
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.
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.
Winchery t1_j5s1dv5 wrote
Reply to comment by AnybodyMassive1610 in Major railroad posts record earnings, spends more on share repurchases than on its employees by esporx
One thing though, the vast majority of railroad workers are EXTREMELY conservative, so they should be happy that carriers, aka the job creators, got their way. The free market is working for all the railroaders in this case.
I don't really get why they can support republican policies which are so anti union then be mad when the union has no power to protect them?
The democrats can't do anything in this case because if they allowed a strike then republicans would blame inflation and supply chain issues squarely on democrats.
In this case it makes sense to let the very right leaning railroaders sleep in the beds that they have made for themselves and dreamed about their entire life.
Winchery t1_j5uhbgg wrote
Reply to comment by processedmeat in Major railroad posts record earnings, spends more on share repurchases than on its employees by esporx
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.