florduh
Well-Known Member
Yeah, remeber that fuckin kabuki theater, now almost three years ago. Grocery workers, the service industry all were called ESSENTIAL workers. And heroes. Man, they threw that shit out the window pretty quick.
It's such a bummer. I posted this a while back, but this guy succinctly explains what they rail workers are asking for.
Now this is on the Far Right Wing news station Newsmax. This is what people who think Fox News is librull propaganda watch. The union member won over the hosts. Hosts on a Far Right network believed the union's demands were reasonable. A President from the "Left Wing" and "Pro Labor" Party apparently does not.
And these railroad corporations are awful. A big part of the reason we're experiencing inflation as well. They refuse to do any capital investment, so shit breaks down all the time. And they find all sorts of ways to cheap out on labor.
That's what the sick time shit's about. They don't want to hire more workers to cover sick days. They would much rather run short staffed and work their current workers to death. Often literally, since sick/injured workers are forced to work or lose pay. And their equipment is breaking down all the time.
It's not like the corpos are passing the savings on to consumers either. They're pocketing the money with stock buybacks and insane executive compensation.
