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So your stance is that rail workers work for private enterprises but simply cannot strike. They can have pretend unions that join together to ask for stuff, but there's nothing they can do if they don't get it. That's not pro-labor. No one was going to die because the rails weren't running. The citations was always "the economy" and we literally just went through a crisis where supply chains were disrupted and people's jobs were saved by emergency acts. Or if you actually believe the apocalypse proclamations, then rail shouldn't be a private enterprise, and it certainly shouldn't be run by sick people who haven't had a good night's sleep.
It was an act of Congress. It could do nearly anything. There was an amendment for sick days that failed and Biden could have made that a requirement. Or just temporarily seized the railroads while negotiations continue. Truman nationalized the rails to avert a strike.
You can't say this is going to be an apocalypse, with intervention by Congress itself, and then say "oh, but the only option is blocking a strike and forcing company approved solutions".
Oh fuck off with your "disingenuous" insinuation. My initial reply is exactly about how you can't just give them a present after you blocked their core labor power and pretend it's fixes the original harm. The stuff afterward is good positive work, but in no way addresses the core harm of blocking a union's right to withhold their labor. He could have gotten them everything they wanted (he didn't) and it still wouldn't undo making a major attack on the rights of organized labor.
In one comment you say I insinuate disingenuousness and in another you say I called you disingenuous. I stated that presenting just a piece of the whole situation and omitting the rest is disingenuous. I stand by this as being disingenuous can be, quite literally, defined as slightly dishonest, or not speaking the complete truth.
No, that’s not my stance, and it’s not what I stated. My stance is that rail workers can strike, and the elected officials can use the Railway Labor Act to force a contract and delay a strike. My stance on the Railway Labor Act, the Taft-Hartley Act and any number of other pieces of legislation over the decades should be repealed and replaced with more modern legislation that favors workers.
Yeah, Truman nationalized rails multiple times. Do you know what else he did? During the 1946 rail strike, President Harry Truman at one point called for a law to allow him to draft striking rail workers into the military. Even after the strike ended, the House of Representatives passed a bill to draft striking workers (it died in the Senate). In 1950, Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize control of the country’s railroads in anticipation of a strike.
The picture often changes when you provide all the information.
Holy fuck, I've been on the internet long enough to know when someone is making a personal attack while pretending they're just objectively describing an argument. I think you're a "disingenuous" ass who cries about people being rude to you all while doing the exact same thing.
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Presidents can nationalize critical infrastructure in times of crisis. That he also did shitty things other times has zero impact on the ability of a president to handle crises with something other than force acceptance of management's terms. Unless you're suggesting we should be happy with a forced settlement because Biden might have drafted the workers into the military instead.
And you call other people "disingenuous". What a fucking joke.
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