• OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 year ago

    But now I live in Nevada. I will be voting for Biden because

    • the CHIPS Act is going to put chip manufacturing at the mercy of union labor
      • and with the solidarity whipped up by places like Antiwork? It’s going to be a bloodbath.
    • his bans on slave labor solar panel imports will do the same thing. Union laborers won’t need to compete with slave owners.
    • he halted ICE worksite immigration raids, which were basically used to terrorize migrant workers and keep them complacent (hence lowering their wages, and by extension, lowering the market price of labor)
    • he “played the long game” and helped win rail workers those sick days they were fighting for.
    • he kept student loan payments paused for the first 33 months of his term and tried to get a decent chunk forgiven
    • he appointed trust-busting advocate Lina Kahn to the FTC, where she is now a chairwoman
    • he appointed pro-labor lawyer Jennifer Abruzzo to the NLRB, where she recently set an anti-union-busting precedent that, according to Harold Meyerson at Prospect.org, “makes union organizing possible again”

    He’s silently, steadily, baby-stepping us in the right direction. And that’s worth a vote of support, not just a vote for a lesser evil.