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"One and only?" Joe Biden literally busted the railroad union just a few years ago and the majority of the dems/dnc supported it. I smell some re-writing of history up in here.
The key word being governor. Joe was a senator and president, NOT a governor
Does it really matter? They are all the DNC....union busters.
Do words and their meanings matter? Yes.
Low effort answer. ☝️
Factual accuracy sometimes has that benefit
As much as I dislike Joe Biden he did actually do a good job there of making sure the workers got their demands without having to strike. The union even ended up thanking him for it a while after all the media attention died down on it.
This is completely untrue. The workers did not have a choice on any it, but Biden did. Nobody forced him to side with the railroad companies over the workers. That was his doing.
Biden just knifed labor unions in the back. They shouldn’t forget it
Here's some links directly from the unions thanking Biden for working with the unions after the strike was blocked to get them what they wanted.
http://ibew.net/media-center/Articles/22Daily/2208/220917_thanks
https://ky.aflcio.org/news/we-never-stopped-applying-pressure-hard-fought-success-rail-sick-days
And they thanked... Drumroll...
Independent Bernie Sanders for continuing the Congressional pressure after Biden broke their strike.
Look I'm not a Biden fan, I think there's plenty to criticize him for and I would vastly prefer Bernie for president. But critiquing him on this when he got the workers what they wanted while also avoiding a strike which would have negative impacts both to workers and other people sounds like a win win to me and exactly what the president should be doing. Yeah I definitely think going the route of not allowing them to strike is definitely not the best but he did follow through to get them what they wanted. Strikes should be a last resort if a company won't give the workers what they want and if the president can step in and get them what they want without a strike that's generally a good thing.
He continued to negotiate for those workers even after stopping the strike (which is not union busting, the union still exists). You'd have been nothing when prices shot up even more if he let the railroads shut down, too, I bet