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So they elected candidates who historically have opposed labor protections and government benefits, and then expected to get paid sick leave?
Fox news tells them the GOP are pro-worker and the Democrats actually hate America and workers.
It's infuriating :/
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for three decades straight and I'm the average Republican.
Yeah but I pray to the photo of Reagan on my wall every night that if I keep my mouth open and look up then the wealth will ~~piss~~ trickle down from the rich as they get richer
I'm a school bus driver and our shop is union (Teamsters). My coworkers rabidly support our union, but are opposed to all other unions (except police unions of course) including even the teachers' union in our district. They're also mostly MAGA. They're just so fucking clueless about their own self-interest, leaving aside their utter selfishness. Our dispatcher is a lesbian who proudly talks about her wife, and she's the most rabid trumper of them all. I had one painful conversation with her where she insisted that it's the GOP that brought about same-sex marriage.
Well she's about to find out the hard way how wrong this is as the Supreme Court is about to (probably) overturn Obergefell
And thomas will gleefully vote to overturn obergfell
KC here... I'm frankly fucking AMAZED we're still not a "Right to Work" state... for how quickly everything else has been overturned blatantly I'm amazed Gov Heehaw didn't find a way to gut it on the way out.
There's a lot of lead pipes here still. And massive swaths of empty land that votes against anyone that might try to maintain or replace them via the necessary step of raising taxes.
Kansas city and St Louis didn't vote for Republicans. Unfortunately both blue patches aren't quite half the States population. But were close enough that there governor is looking to take away our representation.
Before gerrymandering
Yep, Kansas city is sliced through the center like a pie. St Louis is a different kind of gerrymandered as well.
It's absolutely maddening, and it's been happening for at least 30 years
In the USA, all candidates oppose labor protections and government benefits; it's not as if the Democrats provide relief.
(min. wage 7.25, no sick leave, no maternity leave, no vacation, fire at will, no union protections, unions down to 10% (from 40% in 70s))
Both parties are not the same, but they are both pro-corporate and anti-labor
Democrats have consistently advocated for its increase. Including a proposal to raise it to $15/hour in the 2024 platform.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/can-harris-stop-blue-collar-workers-from-defecting-to-donald-trump?
This seems to be mostly determined by states. Several have mandated times. Plus, the Democrats push FAMILY act, which would federally require 12 paid weeks.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was passed in 2022 - requiring better accommodations for pregnant women.
Democrats push the Protecting the Right to Organize Act - aims to expand collective bargaining rights and strengthen penalties for labor violations.
Executive actions under Biden:
Repealed Trump-era EOs that weakened collective bargaining
Passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009 and the Paycheck Fairness Act - both attempting more equality in pay.
Trying to equate the Republicans and Democrats on these issues is absolutely asinine, completely indefensible and based on sheer ignorance. People like you, too lazy to do the slightest research and subsisting on lazy assumptions and memes, are why a convicted pedophile is currently the president.
Yes, they advocate for many things that they will not do. Biden had a majority for two years, proposed it, a few Democrats voted against, and that's that. Did they try to at least raise it a little, say to nine an hour? No, why bother? It's always a few Democrats; Super PACs don't have to pay everybody. Just enough.
That's neat, but did you know that we are surpassed by the entire first world with worker benefits, and now even eastern Europe? That's pro-labor? No. No, it is not. If Poland increases their minimum wage another dollar, they will surpass the USAs "labor party" in results in every way.
Union membership has fallen down to 10%, from 40% in the 1970s. Union membership does not rise under D administrations, that's a fact.
They are both pro-business and anti-labor, and anyone who disagrees (specifically you) should be under supervised care and hidden from the public. Japan, Australia, Canada, South Korea, United Kingdom, Western and Eastern Europe all prove that you are wrong. They have real labor parties, not the shallow mockery of one we have in the USA.
Only a dimwitted ignoramus would think that the Democrats are "pro-labor" when compared to the rest of civilization as we know it. You bring shame to yourself and your family
People like you will always lick the boot, because you're fine with union membership and pay dropping every year, immune to the suffering of labor all around you in spite of mountains of evidence to the contrary, and eager to believe that things are different than they really are. They should take away your driver's license.
The Democratic party is, but at the local and state levels, there absolutely are progressive, pro-labor Democrats. Whereas all Republicans right now are fascists (the few non-fascists left or were forced out).
Yes, local and state is filled with decent progressive Democrats, also socialists, libertarians, green party, and more.
Federal? One pro-labor Democrat has been allowed to take office, yay.... and she agrees with me (that Democrats have abandoned labor).
Leadership "allows" them to exist, after all you can't just load them all into work camps. Yet.
There's more than one in the House and Senate. But yes, can probably count them on two hands.
Sounds like a lot of people got exactly what they deserve