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???

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.

    You break one rail strike and people notice that you hate workers.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
      23·
      20 hours ago

      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.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        WAAAAAAHHHHH THERE’S INFLATION WAAAAAHHH THERE’S INFLATION

        How centrists phrase people not being able to afford food.

        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

        What the workers got was the deal they rejected, forced on them.

        Why do you think he hates workers?

        Because I don’t buy “behind the scenes” lies from people who call betrayal a win for workers.