Posted on 10/11/2022 2:40:15 PM PDT by rktman
President Joe Biden’s tentative railroad union deal fell apart on Monday after a freight rail workers union rejected it, raising fears of a looming strike.
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the Teamsters rejected the deal on the grounds that management refused to offer paid time off to workers for sickness or family emergencies.
“Railroaders are discouraged and upset with working conditions and compensation and hold their employer in low regard. Railroaders do not feel valued,” Union President Tony D. Cardwell said in a statement.
“Railroaders do not feel valued. They resent the fact that management holds no regard for their quality of life, illustrated by their stubborn reluctance to provide a higher quantity of paid time off, especially for sickness.”
Cardwell said the union would continue negotiating with the rail companies until five days after Congress reconvened on November 14.
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What a surprise. Completely unexpected.
Never discount Barack Obama’s axiom about Joe Biden....
Dementia Joe can’t seem to get anything right.
Chuckle.
Not meeting again until after the midterms.
High prices, shortages, and inflation coming in hot...
Wah Wah Wah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuwD2xACse4
One has to ask why trains aren’t automated
and operated like military drones, remotely.
But but but...Joe was working on the rails with John Henry himself, he’s a steel driving man!
Good, that’ll teach these fools they “elected” a fool...no, wait....
I wouldn’t, but you do realize it applies to Obama also.
Both of them have that trait.
Working conditions?
You mean they need to work on trains and such?
Why go for just a few tacos... when you can get a whole enchilada.
Ha
Send Trump.
No pudding for you, Pedo.
So, Little Joey Amtrack F’ed up the deal?
Also known as the Dog-faced Corn-Pop deal.
what, a 20 to 24% increase isn’t enough ?!
But but but...Joe was working on the rails with John Henry himself, he’s a steel driving man!
It’ll be Cornelius Vanderbilt tomorrow.......
Helluva way to run a railroad. Do we have to depend on an army of gnomes to break the impending strike?
Railroads have always had a dicey relationship with whatever governing power they deal with. First a monopoly given to “encourage” the rail builders to move into a territory to be served, then punishing taxes because they cannot simply pull up stakes and go an alternative route. Then when the railroad bosses could not or would not comply with the directives that came down from the governing authority, they were threatened with government takeover, or by fining the limited liability corporations into bankruptcy. When these railroad bosses came to the government for assistance in rebuilding stretches of railroad infrastructure after some great natural disaster, the government did not want to “interfere with the workings of private capital”.
Railroads have been in retreat since the turn of the 20th Century. That any at all exist today is a testament to the inertia of the huge transportation complex that is woven together in a patchwork of scarcities and overcapacity.
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