PJM:
Labor headaches are the last thing any president needs — especially when it involves critical transportation infrastructure like railroads in an election year. So, on Wednesday, the eve of a potentially politically and economically ruinous rail strike, Joe Biden asked the two sides to meet in Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh’s office for negotiations.
Harry Truman reportedly tried this method of persuasion during the steel strike of 1949 by locking the negotiators for both sides in a room and not letting them out until they made a deal.
As it was, the two sides were making little progress until Biden called into the meeting around 9 p.m. After that, it was all downhill as a tentative labor agreement was reached a few hours later.
“The tentative agreement reached tonight is an important win for our economy and the American people,” Biden said in a statement. “It is a win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to ensure that America’s families and communities got deliveries of what have kept us going during these difficult years.”
The White House had been in talks with railroad workers’ unions and companies for several months, but negotiations were hung up over unpaid sick time.
Once Biden got involved, the writing was on the wall. And not surprisingly, the unions made out like bandits. more
So what did Biden* promise? BJs for everybody courtesy of the VP?
A) Tentative.
B) Until the “cooling period” is over.
C) Several weeks.
D) Vote for democrats to get your deal.
E) Midterms.
F) Deal off/reduced. Renegotiate.
G) Country goes to hell in a handbasket.
Of course Joe is the most pro-union president ever. Unions suck.
If you like your inflation you are going to really like this
The whole thing is a staged event just like that assholes election.
So now they will get paid for taking more than their allotted time off, I see chinapox making a comeback among railroad union employeees.
Of course Congress will vote on this since it involves federal spending, right?
Right???
Oh, that’s right, Constitution isn’t to be followed any more.
“As inflation rises so do the Bolsheviks.”
(Emmerson)
The deal will contribute to the inflationary cycle – which is the plan.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Unions took advantage, Joe is a perfect stooge
The deal was sealed when FJB promised the union members that they could keep any valuables of anyone they transport to the labor camps after the 2024 elections. And in a special add on deal negotiated by FJB himself… if any woman or child on the train catches their fancy, then…
I figured it was Kibuki Theater–threaten a devastating strike by unions which belong to Biden, then he comes to the rescue, saving our economy, just before the midterms.