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[-] cogman@lemmy.world 242 points 9 months ago

Are people on the left saying this?

The 2 things I've really not liked about biden is he

  1. Continued trump era boarder policies significantly harming refugees.

  2. Has doggedly supported israel in their current genocide campaign.

Other wise his admin has ranged from pretty good to business as usual. 1000% better than trump, but also with some glaring problems.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 50 points 9 months ago

2 is huge, but you forgot that he busted the railroad union which directly led to ohio burning down

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago

I'm no fan of Biden (though I did and will vote for him) but that's not what happened. He did not bust the unions, the 12 unions still exist. He broke a strike, which is the intended purpose of the Railway Labor Act of 1926.

The law he put before congress to force a resolution to the three year negotiation deadlock would have guaranteed the workers 7 days of sick leave per year (they wanted 15). It passed the House but the Senate knocked it down to 1 day, with a 14% immediate pay increase and an additional 25% over the next five years.

Biden continued negotiate for the unions to get the sick days. They don't all have them yet, but at this point 61% of the workers do have 4 short notice paid sick days with the option to trade three personal days for an additional 3 short notice sick days. Negotiations are still happening, the Biden administration is still part of them.

The Ohio derailment disaster was not a result of worker error (or lack of sick days) but lack of maintenance regulations, which was not something that was being negotiated at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute

https://www.reuters.com/business/white-house-renews-pressure-railroads-over-paid-sick-leave-2023-02-09/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-unionized-us-rail-workers-now-have-new-sick-leave-2023-06-05/#:~:text=Under%20the%20agreement%20effective%20Aug,use%20as%20paid%20sick%20time.&text=Our%20Standards%3A%20The%20Thomson%20Reuters%20Trust%20Principles

Beau of the Fifth Column, Let's Talk About Biden, the Rails and Sick days... Youtube link

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago

I just thought union busting was something of a proud American tradition.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

It's true, we bust unions like their kneecaps were full of oil.

[-] FoxBJK@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago

2 is kinda irrelevant in the context of the election though. If you think Biden supports them too much wait until you see the alternative. Trump doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy to say “Palestinians need our help”. He strikes me as the guy who’ll say “See? This is why I’m writing a new Muslim ban”

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

Continued trump era boarder policies significantly harming refugees.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't his Administration forced to continue those by SCotUS?

Has doggedly supported israel in their current genocide campaign.

Agree, but that looks like it's starting to turn as well.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

Agree, but that looks like it's starting to turn as well

Honest question, where have you seen this?

All I've seen is talk about possibly maybe telling them to stop genociding. Other than that it's business as usual. The whole siding with Israel at the ICJ trial isn't a great look

[-] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

scotus has no enforcement arm.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think the DNC finally discovered Lemmy. There's been a huge uptick of VBNMW and "how dare anyone question Biden" posts. Voters can be critical of Biden and the Dems and still vote for them to "stop Trump". Even though Trump is merely a symptom of the crappy system we have.

Edit: also, calling the far left nut jobs isn't going to win any of them over.

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