Biden backs rail bosses
12-01-2022 | 06:44 PM
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12-01-2022 | 07:01 PM
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No it's not. Ted Cruz has voted against union interests more than the average Senate republican. Don't let this singular event goldfish you. He is not a friend of labor.
https://aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/ted-cruz
https://aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/ted-cruz
What does the nomination of Pete Buttigieg to Secretary or Transportation and the "voting rights" legislation have to do with supporting labor? It doesn't The AFL-CIO has unfortunately turned into another crazy liberal organization.
12-01-2022 | 07:05 PM
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out the working man. Yes I know the Rs are worse so spare me your strawmen. The bolded statement is still true.
12-01-2022 | 07:22 PM
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My brother is a BLE member and voted against the TA. His union passed it around 51/49. But they won’t cross picket lines so he was still going to strike. Who gives a ^#%^ if you virtue signaled 99 percent of the time. When the rubber hit the road the D’s sold
out the working man. Yes I know the Rs are worse so spare me your strawmen. The bolded statement is still true.
out the working man. Yes I know the Rs are worse so spare me your strawmen. The bolded statement is still true.
12-01-2022 | 07:51 PM
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12-01-2022 | 07:58 PM
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From: Enoch Powell Enthusiast
"The first thing a dictator does is abolish the free press. Next he abolishes the right of labor to go on strike. Strikes have been labor’s weapon of progress in the century of our industrial civilization. Where the strike has been abolished … labor is reduced to a state of medieval peonage, the standard of living lowered, the nation falls to subsistence level."
Franklin D. Roosevelt. President of the United States. Not a fan. Like this quote though. What is the RLA, other than a legal way to eliminate "self help"?
(Plenty more from other actually labor friendly "D" labor presidents OF THE PAST to quote though. Bedtime for bonzo. Wish the rail workers well though.)
Franklin D. Roosevelt. President of the United States. Not a fan. Like this quote though. What is the RLA, other than a legal way to eliminate "self help"?
(Plenty more from other actually labor friendly "D" labor presidents OF THE PAST to quote though. Bedtime for bonzo. Wish the rail workers well though.)
12-02-2022 | 04:06 AM
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You also have to look at what they are claiming is the scorecard. Voting against a bill that dissolves the need to have an ID to vote isn’t particularly labor-related as are most of the “against labor” votes. AFL-CIO is a hyper-partisan organization. Essentially they said that if a member of congress voted along party lines on just about anything, you were pro-labor as a democrat and against the working man as a republican.
Personally I whole heartedly believe the government should stay the f*%k out of it. It’s way past what the government was designed for by the founding fathers, and the RLA is a big time screw you to workers.
I’m not holding my breath. Most politicians are bought and paid for by big companies. Remember the quote from Aladdin, “Whoever has the gold makes the rules”
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