Unions, and particularly railroad unions, are solid Democrat through and through. Why would they want to sabotage their bread-and-butter Party right before an election? It makes ZERO sense.
My bet is that the strike will be averted right before midnight on Friday, Biden will claim victory for it, and the fawning media will trumpet his praises.
BINGO!
Master Negotiator Biden averts nationwide tragedy!
I can’t imagine McConnell decimating anyone about anything. He’s too busy CYA’g to keep his freaking job.
I agree. Does anyone know what the sick leave policy is for these unions?
No doubt in my mind that you are right.
“My bet is that the strike will be averted right before midnight on Friday, Biden will claim victory for it, and the fawning media will trumpet his praises.”
You are very prescient.
Lots of the rank and file are already blaming all this on Republican intransigence going back before Amtrak Joe. They are in the drivers' seat this time, and the railroads' roughshod "point systems" and such have the lads and lasses all righteously angry. Wall Street is being blamed, and the RR boards eager to burn everything down to make returns on vulture capitalists are getting bad optics.
Call it "Hunter Harrison's Ghost" or whatever, but chickens are roosting, and Amtrak Joe will benefit somehow. He can treat an individual Amtrak employee like dog crap, but the unions love him. Look for nationalization... they have plans in place and they never let a crisis go to waste... especially a crisis that has been manufactured.
Bet the farm. The Union won’t cripple the country this close to the mid terms. Instead they will give Biden a victory and save the nation just in time.
Post of the freaking day! You couldn’t be more correct.
You are probably correct.
Railroads are not allowed to strike more than 24 hours.
I don’t know a lot about this, but my understanding this is mostly about sick time. My understanding is if you call in sick too much, you get fired. BNSF(?) has a 30 point system.
one sick call can cost you several points.
I fail to understand why they want a violently ill person controlling an assembled machine(locomotives with cars) weighing hundreds’s of thousands of tons at speeds of 55 MPH or more. But they do.
Schedules must be met.
Shades of Harry Truman.
I said that same thing to my wife this AM. Bidet will claim victory and the enemedia will broadcast it 24/7.
Aha! I’m a FReeper! I know what “decimates” means!
“Unions, and particularly railroad unions, are solid Democrat through and through. “
I suppose you polled the membership, right?
Biden’s not running, and I doubt that the settlement of a rail strike would help a guy like Ralph Warnock. Also, the disruptions don’t stop overnight just because they chisel out an agreement... The damage caused by supply chain disruptions will last for months. Meanwhile communters in the eastern seaboard will be pissed off as hell.
Hmmm...
Yet another reason why moving oil by rail and not by pipeline is a really bad idea...
Another product where this is going to hurt is moving coal - even if it’s just to a waterway where it can then go on a barge or ship. That’s a slightly different case of course, but, the fallout of a strike would be nasty.
Yeah right.
McConnell isn’t devastating anything or anyone.
Exactly. Biden the hero!
You are correct ... it is all for the optics.
The Unions will get what they want at the last minute (the script is already written that way).
And the medial will hail the Fraud as a hero.