UAW president Shawn Fain: "I truly find it pathetic when I hear Trump—a scab—talk about how he's going to bring back the auto industry and bring it back fast. When he was president, he didn't do a damn thing to help the auto industry. Plants were closing and left this country, and he did nothing to help it.”
  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    3319·
    2 months ago

    The only nice things you can say about Trump or Biden on the issue of labor is that both were so bad for workers that it forced unions to become stronger by necessity.

    And labor unions have.

    I wish it didn’t have to be that way, but that’s life when all we elect are capitalists in service to the billionaire class.

    • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
      1624·
      2 months ago

      Yea, don’t get me wrong. I’m voting for whatever democrat is available. But Biden sure did fuck the train labor union when they had a chance for negotiations.

        • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
          91·
          2 months ago

          Note that there are some 12 “train labor unions” or so who were involved in the negotiations between legislators and freight companiws and themselves. I agree with you that this was received generally positively, but I need to point out that IBEW didn’t speak for all of rail labor and some unions weren’t happy in the end.

          List of railway worker unions in the negotiation:

          • International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Div. (SMART-TD)
          • Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (BMWE)
          • Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET)
          • Brotherhood Railway Carmen (BRC)
          • Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS)
          • International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)
          • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
          • Transportation Communications International Union (TCU)
          • National Conference of Firemen and Oilers (NCFO)
          • American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA)
          • International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Div., Yardmasters Dept. (SMART-TD-YDM)
          • International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART)
          • International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Blacksmiths, Iron Ship Builders, Forgers and Helpers (IBB)
          • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            52·
            2 months ago

            Since they said “union” I assumed they meant the IBEW and decided to simplify it since I’m on mobile and just doing those links alone was a lot of work lol but this is fair to point out, though I’ll also point out that most of these unions shared a similar sentiment. You can see a lot of their statements on this with some quick searches. IAM and SMART are easy examples.

      • takeda@lemmy.world
        17·
        2 months ago

        Republicans in Congress pushed a bill that did not have sick leave. After the bill passed white house continued to work with the unions and helped negotiate their contract so they got what they wanted (other comments provided links confirming it).

        I guess the Republican plan worked, as it looks like people still only know about the bill.