Today’s headline US Senate committee clears Boeing lawyer’s stalled NLRB nomination marks almost exactly 51 weeks since the Democrats alley-ooped the NLRB to the Republicans for a slam dunk. Here’s a reminder of how that happened (under Biden, too). Republicans keep swallowing political institutions whole in the U.S., and anyone who has their faith placed in the Democrats must be completely delusional, especially after the recent government shutdown disgrace.
I would say that now the U.S. is officially under corporate control (yes, I know it was before but I mean now it’s legally locked down), what with the NLRB and Supreme Court in the Republicans’ pocket. Labor doesn’t stand a chance anymore.
… Prove me wrong???
Biden arguably broke the law with how quick he got rid of Trump’s horrendous NLRB pick and replaced him with someone actually good for labor (your link touches on that, search for “in the last 3 years, union petitions have doubled because” and then do the math about what happened a little over 3 years ago that might have led to different leadership at the NLRB). The Republicans fought it tooth and nail, and they kind of had a point, but anyway he made it stick and the NLRB has actually been doing good work for a while.
Anyway, after that happened a whole bunch of leftist voters looked at the choices on offer in the last presidential election and said WAAAAAAHHHHH NOT LEFT ENOUGH NOT LEFT ENOUGH and stayed home, and so a lot of Biden’s improvement-finally on these issues is now being undone and then some. Bernie Sanders is 100% correct as far as the uselessness of most of congress on all of this and the Democrats’ absolute unforced fuck-up / unforced gift to corporate America (either is possible to me, they’re both 100% on brand).
The part that is confused to me is that you guys actually had someone in office who did care about fixing this actual exact specific issue, and did, and you responded by fucking hating him and complaining about him constantly and also blaming his successor for everything he did wrong and now all of a sudden you’re aware of the NLRB and that it is important and upset that the Democrats are dogshit about supporting it. Which… I mean, yes, the NLRB is fucked now, and also the center-right Democrats in congress have their way paved to not have to get any better in order to win elections because everyone hates the Republicans now. Good job. Well done. On that as well as many other things which are ten times worse now. Excellent.
You break one rail strike and people notice that you hate workers.
Hey you know, that’s a really good point. I’m sure that all the Lemmy posters that were super concerned about the plight of the struggling American family trying to put food on the table and that’s why they were concerned about rising prices and inflation before the election and why Biden was responsible for them would have had the maturity to refrained from saying WAAAAAAHHHHH THERE’S INFLATION WAAAAAHHH THERE’S INFLATION and not been bothered by the rail strike’s impact on the American economy and given him credit for sticking to his guns and Kamala Harris would have lost the election less hard because paralyzed rail shipping didn’t become an issue and they didn’t blame her for it. I’m sure that’s how it would have played out.
My own personal politics, I actually in all seriousness do agree with I think the average Lemmy POV that Biden should have let the rail strike happen, and if it hurts the American economy then oh fucking well you should have treated better the people who run the American economy. What he did was the break the strike, then had his refurbished NLRB keep working the issue after no one was paying attention and get the rail workers a lot of what they were asking for anyway, just in a way that didn’t paralyze American shipping. I get why he went at it that way. After all, people blamed the fuck out of him for inflation that wasn’t his fault, so presumably they would have been happy to blame him also for inflation that actually was his fault.
But IDK how you look at that, and all this sudden burst of union activity the last three years and the legal and logistical support that his suddenly functional NLRB was lending to it which the OP article talks about in such glowing terms without examining where any of it came from, and decide that of course Biden hates workers. Why do you think he hates workers? This is some creation science shit.
How centrists phrase people not being able to afford food.
What the workers got was the deal they rejected, forced on them.
Because I don’t buy “behind the scenes” lies from people who call betrayal a win for workers.