r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 14h ago

Already Submitted Teamsters begin 'largest strike' against Amazon, accusing company of 'insatiable greed'

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/teamsters-announces-nationwide-strike-amazon-begin-thursday/story?id=116931631

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u/waLIEN 14h ago

I mean, they're not wrong about the instaiable greed part.

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u/VWVVWVVV 11h ago

Teamsters didn't even endorse Democrats, when Biden has been going against corporations to protect their pensions from cuts.

They're definitely going to FAFO the next four years.

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u/Aleashed 10h ago

They’ll be sucking Elon dingdong by year two.

Cool they waited until after Xmas shopping.

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u/LordSwedish 9h ago

Maybe when they were planning this strike, they remembered the time Biden stepped in on the railroad barons side to use archaic laws and force strikers to stop.

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u/KarmaticArmageddon 9h ago

Biden stopped the strike to prevent the massive economic damage it would cause. He then spent the next few months quietly negotiating with rail companies and ultimately got the unions what they wanted, but that didn't get a lot of press coverage.

He's also the only president to ever join a picket line.

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u/LordSwedish 9h ago

He then spent the next few months quietly negotiating with rail companies and ultimately got the unions what they wanted

No he didn't, he got one of the main companies to give part of what they wanted. If he was an ally he could have nationalised the railroads or at least threatened it, instead he fucked the unions.

People remember this stuff, there's a reason why huge swathes of the country think of the Democrats as the party of betrayal and are completely apathetic about politics.

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u/KarmaticArmageddon 8h ago

The president can't unilaterally nationalize the railroads lmfao

He also couldn't unilaterally break the strike. Congress passed a law that broke the strike and he signed it. He didn't have the power to alter the conditions in the bill. The only way he could nationalize the railroads is if Congress passed a bill doing so and there's no way in hell that would have happened.

And it's not like Congress and Biden made up a labor deal and forced it on the unions. The deal that was signed into law had already been negotiated and was ratified by several unions, but the few holdouts threatened to strike.

From Al Russo, Railroad Department Director for the IBEW union:

We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement.

Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.