He quashed the strike in the moment, and got them most of their demands as a follow-up, as I hear it. But only the first part ever made the news, for some reason.
I work for the railroad and this is incorrect. The big fight this contract was for actual sick leave. As of right now if I was to get sick and call in I’d potentially lose an entire weeks worth of pay for taking that one day off (our pay system is complicated) and have a mark on my attendance. Most class ones only allow three hits before you are let go. Some take this a step further and make weekends and holidays count as two strikes. Since we work on call 24 hours 6 days a week with no guarantee of actually being home for your day off doing things as simple as scheduling a doctors appointment becomes a nightmare.
What happened in December was congress removed the sick leave portion and made it a separate bill. H.J. Res. 100 passed to block us from striking while the bill for sick leave H.Con.Res.119 failed at the senate.
There was one statement put out, from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, one of the unions that voted against the strike, and it just got mega amplified, seemingly everyone heard about it.
No, rail workers didnt get most of their demands, they didnt get as many sick days as they would have with a strike, or other benefits, and not every rail union even got sick days at all. And no one should forget just how poisonous this was for future bargaining, the unions one point of leverage being completely undermined
Publicly owned and traded media can’t be trusted with facts or truth. They’re in it for the money. Which these days means clicks and views. Which means salacious and outraging. Not factual or concise.
He quashed the strike in the moment, and got them most of their demands as a follow-up, as I hear it. But only the first part ever made the news, for some reason.
I work for the railroad and this is incorrect. The big fight this contract was for actual sick leave. As of right now if I was to get sick and call in I’d potentially lose an entire weeks worth of pay for taking that one day off (our pay system is complicated) and have a mark on my attendance. Most class ones only allow three hits before you are let go. Some take this a step further and make weekends and holidays count as two strikes. Since we work on call 24 hours 6 days a week with no guarantee of actually being home for your day off doing things as simple as scheduling a doctors appointment becomes a nightmare.
What happened in December was congress removed the sick leave portion and made it a separate bill. H.J. Res. 100 passed to block us from striking while the bill for sick leave H.Con.Res.119 failed at the senate.
Ugh, god damn it.
Thanks for the correction…
There was one statement put out, from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, one of the unions that voted against the strike, and it just got mega amplified, seemingly everyone heard about it.
No, rail workers didnt get most of their demands, they didnt get as many sick days as they would have with a strike, or other benefits, and not every rail union even got sick days at all. And no one should forget just how poisonous this was for future bargaining, the unions one point of leverage being completely undermined
Publicly owned and traded media can’t be trusted with facts or truth. They’re in it for the money. Which these days means clicks and views. Which means salacious and outraging. Not factual or concise.