Posted on 07/23/2023 6:02:47 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a
Joe Biden loves to tout “Bidenomics” which is a top-down command economy model with massive Federal spending directed primarily at green energy. But remember that a pillar of Bidenomics is support for labor unions. But “Union Joe” will be remembered as “Inflation Joe” as inflation remains hot. But now the labor unions are threatening to stall the recent rise in real weekly earnings (finally above 0%!).
Tensions between employees and employers are heating up this summer. Bloomberg reports 650,000 workers threaten to walk off the job and picket in the streets to secure improved benefits, wages, and other conditions amid the worst inflation storm in a generation.
Unionized workers have taken advantage of upcoming contract expirations with companies to bargain for better wages and benefits. Many unions say companies can boost wages because profits have been off the charts.
This summer might go down in history as the “Summer of Strikes” because 650,000 American workers are threatening to walk off the job imminently (some have already hit the picket lines):
So far, strikes have not had a broad economic impact, but that could change overnight. Increasing labor actions are happening across the Western world, also in Europe, for the same reason in the US, due to a cost-of-living crisis sparked by high inflation.
Under O’Biden (the combined reign of economic errors) of Presidents Obama and Biden), we don’t see any strike breaking for the good of the economy. Rather, the Biden Administration will be missing in action (or sending in Kamala Harris or Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to do … nothing.
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Entire country should go on strike until these filthy democrats are gone.
The RATs’ Dempanic trained everyone that going on vacation in Montana and screwing around with the bears and buffalo all year long is a lot more fun than working as is diving over a cliff while taking a selfie of how wonderful you are.
I was better-off 4 years ago than I am now.
Corporate America wants imported brains and exported labor costs.
There will be a global rise in NeoLuddite parties and political thoughts.
On the UPS strike the Teamsters President warning Biden not to stop them from striking.
That is possible Biden stopped a railroad strike from happening in cooperation with Republicans and Democrats in Congress the Davos Uniparty.
Not that I have hope ANYTHING will wake up the slumbering idiots ...
Biden will be forced to stop strikes and he will be showing the world that’s willing to see it how anti-worker the Globalist Democrat Party of Davos is.
Unions are cool
Too bad the Unions support Democrats.
If the GOP had a brain, that would be their ad everywhere
Yep do what theyre told like good little pets
A few years ago all they wanted was a raise in minimum wage..$15/hr then they’d all be so happy.
Time for Americans to start cancelling union shops. Any place that hires union workers.
I can kind of see it.
My son is in the elevator trade. Third year. Making about $60K a year right now. In about two years he will be over $100K. In two years.
He would like a starter home. Nothing fancy. According to the numbers he should be able to afford something in the $200K range. Except there is nothing in the area in the $200 range, unless you want to live in a mobile home.
This is in New Mexico. Rio Rancho to be precise. Both sets of parents live here, so they want to stay in the area. They are currently renting a small two bedroom apartment for $1300 a month and it is only that low because they have been renting it for 10 years. If they were just moving it, it goes for $1800 a month. These are not luxury apartments.
The cost of everything is out of control and wages have not kept up. A lot has to with government regulation of our energy and transportation sectors as well as the ongoing costs of government interference in healthcare.
O’Biden attacked the oil industry day one. Simply put, that drove the cost of diesel way up which affects everything we consume like groceries and gasoline. Prices over all went up significantly while wages did not, so a lot of people are now in big credit card debt. This includes a lot of union members. I am not a big union supporter, but they are not wrong to threaten a strike or to actually go on strike.
Prepare for shortages in the near term. Brought to you by the DNC/Obama/Biden’s handlers.
It’s sounds like the American workers are starting to worry about how it’s going to be when student loan deadbeats and the “reparations” swindlers crew have all the money and workers don’t have jack.
It’s sounds like the American workers are starting to worry about how it’s going to be when student loan deadbeats and the “reparations” swindlers crew have all the money and workers don’t have jack.
And builders aren’t interested in building anything but McMansions.
True. The impact fees cities are charging developers are out of control.
In my town for years we could count on commercial growth and the subsequent expanding tax base to offset any costs incurred by the city in running power, water, and sewers out to new developments. Now the commercial developers are slow to move into a new area. Without that tax revenue, and since the bulk of the property tax goes to the county and the state, the city is left holding the bag for the costs of the infrastructure. They have no choice but to charge developers for these costs.
With this big additional price per home tacked onto the cost, builders are constructing more expensive houses to keep their margins up. THEN we get the libs in the city moaning that we have no affordable housing. The larger businesses also complain that their lower paid employees have to commute from the..ahem..less desirable, far away, parts of Albuquerque and it is hard to keep them.
Proposals are made to rezone certain areas to allow multi-family housing - read apartments - and homeowners lose their minds. No one wants the property values in THEIR neighborhood driven down by riff raff in apartments!
All the while, the McMansions sell...so the builders plan for more of them...
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