In an extraordinary show of support for organized labor, President Biden said he would join workers in Michigan on the front lines of their strike against leading automakers.

In an extraordinary show of support for organized labor, President Biden said he would join workers in Michigan on the front lines of their strike against leading automakers.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yes, but he shouldn’t have shut down the negotiations in the first place.

    1. It’s bad optics for him. He would have known perfectly well which action would be covered by the media, and which one wouldn’t be, and how that would look. It ends up looking like a strategic choice to appear anti-union.
    2. It weakens the railworkers union! Now they know they can’t get their demands on their own, they literally have to have federal intervention. Their bosses also know this. Biden also knew this.
    • TheCannonball@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I honestly agree. We need strong Unions and forcing them back to work sucks. But without the trains running, America’s economic infrastructure would collapse pretty quickly. Then everyone would be blaming Biden for that.

      It was a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.