As an American who will be negatively affected by this…
Great! Seems like the perfect time for a strike. I hope they get what they’re asking for, but if they don’t, I hope they keep it up as long as they need to.
No. No you don’t. They were offered a 50% wage hike tonight, yes, FIFTY, and still declined. I import for my job. There’s SO much that comes from all over the world. It will in turn make factories come to a standstill here. Trump will blame it all on the administration, people will believe him and then we are ruined for good.
So they were offered a 50% hike, so what? When was the last time they got a meaningful pay increase? And if it’s not the money, it’s got to be something else: remember when the rail workers were on strike and the bosses made big noise about the pay increases they were offering, only it turned out that the workers were constantly expected to work double shifts on no notice, with no real option to refuse, and they had no time off for months on end? Fuck that shit, pay the workers what they’re worth. If I can’t buy a brand new car or some bananas, so what?
Recall that a similar strike happened under Bush only 20 years ago. Nothing changes. They should absolutely push harder for bigger change.
Fun fact. Biden actually went back and got those rail workers extra sick days like he promised.
Is it 50% over 10 years or something like that? Edit: I just looked it up it’s over 6 years which is 7% annual raises. This barely catches up to the past 3 years of inflation l not to mention as you work at a place you should be getting better and more useful so should be making more. 50% is a bare minimum offer and sounds like turning it down makes sense.
Yeah people against unions tend to leave out the important bits. It’s a car salesman trick and clearly it’s not working.
Defeat the fuckingcapitalists
