The House votes to avert a potentially devastating railroad strike

It's wild how reasonable their demands are. 7 days unpaid sick leave per year? How is it even a little bit socially acceptable that the companies refused this demand?

I don't understand how Americans don't look at the rest of the world and go "they seem to work fine with labour protections, why can't we have some?"

"votes to avert strike" is an interesting way of saying "makes it illegal to strike".

This is a national security issue, these are some of our most essential workers, they should be some of the best treated, not the worst treated.

In the same breath where Biden calls himself a "proud pro-labor president," he calls on Congress to break a strike. [1] The hypocrisy will make your head spin.

What's the incentive for the railroad companies to bargain in good faith with the unions instead of deliberately stalling and waiting for the federal government to break the strike preemptively? All downside risk has been removed.

Biden publicly backed the unions, waited for the midterm elections to finish, and then switched sides and backed the railroad companies.

Democrats backstabbing labor will fracture an otherwise solidly blue voting block in a time when Dems are winning races by single-digit percentage points.

No party in America supports workers' rights. Dems will say they do, but when push comes to shove, there is no one.

[1] https://twitter.com/potus/status/1597383591574605825