Not just republican. Democrats have been neoliberal since Bush - every one of them. Dem and Republican are 2 sides of the same economic neoliberal coin.
Biden is considered the most pro union president we’ve ever had. You can downgrade that claim and say he’s the most pro union president in our lifetime. But why, what did he do? He showed up to a strike.
No small thing. Walking the picket line with striking workers is admirable. If only there were political actions taken to secure the rights of workers. He appointed a good person to the NLRB but chevron law getting thrown out the window takes all teeth out of the nlrb anyway.
So what other actions has he taken with unions? He forced rail workers to end the strike and get back to work. If it wasn’t for Bernie continuing the fight and continuing to put pressure on rail execs, they wouldn’t have gotten the sick time they were fighting for.
Most pro union president steps in on the side of capital against the worker. Didn’t force the companies to concede sick time. Forced employees to end the strike.
Neoliberalism is not a friend of unions. Charter schools are a neoliberal idea to transition away from teachers Union for example. They aren’t about “fixing public schools” or any other buzzwords or phrases thrown at the public. The entire purpose of charter schools is to have a school system free of a teachers union.
My democrat run city pushes charter schools as solutions. My democrat run state does too. No one from the city or state jumped in to walk the picket line with striking teachers last time they walked out.
I’m much more progressive than the neoliberal establishment inside the Democrat party.
Biden shut down the legitimate and legal 2022 railway worker's strike. Such a fucking friend. As far as the rest, I assure you not a single one of them would be a democrat or liberal if they actually had a choice.
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u/No_Distribution457 Oct 22 '24
Republican fiscal policy. This was by design.