scoobdog

According to your article, it looks like the rail companies were always going to be against paid sick leave, so it doesn’t look like the deal was ever reasonable.

Obviously, it doesn’t matter that he was a the bigot we always knew him to be.

I think it is, in part. None of them should have ratified it knowing the others weren’t going to. The US Government isn’t negotiating, they are. If they had properly represented the majority of their members, Biden wouldn’t have brokered the deal with no sick days. in the first place.

If they had stuck together, we wouldn't have had an opportunity for Biden's administration to latch on to a low-ball offer.

You might be sheltered. What you see is probably nothing like what's going on it Lassen and Nevada Counties way to the north and northeast. You wouldn't think California is haven for militias, but there are some even here.

You can be a troll and believe what you're saying at the same time.

See, that's my point. Biden's failure here isn't diminished by the fact that the unions don't seem to be on the same page with some ratifying and others not.

It's beyond a bad look, though it likely doesn't mean much given his already low approval. How did some of the unions initially come to an agreement on this bad deal while others did not?

And the unions should strike.

I know what you're saying, and I agree. Regardless of what you think about who's in who's pocket, it's generally agreed that getting the government (or any third party) involved is usually a bad idea. Why even call on them when the solution is, as you say, simple and apparent? Anyway you look at it, we're looking at the back-end of a botched negotiation, and it seems to be pointing to bigger issues than just a government that's corrupt and/or hamstrung. The government shouldn't be involved in the first place, and the only two reasons I can think of for why they are is (a) the Biden administration is so sensitive they're preemptively inserting themselves into the negotiations, and (b) the negotiations are a disorganized mess and the government is needed to reign in one or both sides.

Not sure they could do that, but they most certainly can hand them over to the DOJ.

Aw man.... we didn't even get to the incomprehensible veiled threat stage yet.

Not what I meant. It’s obvious they’re understaffing to cut corners, but why don’t the unions have leverage in the negotiations? The rail companies certainly wouldn’t have called a pro Union POTUS to the negotiations unless they knew something. My money is there’s some corruption in the union leadership that’s preventing them from being in lockstep.

Naturally

That begs the questions of either why the unions couldn’t get them to acquiesce or why the government got involved.

To be fair, he has more to lose politically if there is strike than if there isn’t, so, yeah, that is part of it.

Well, he just has to be the white supremacist +1 for a certain someone so they can have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. It's guaranteed to work.

How does one admit to something one was not a party to? Did he talk to all the nonexistent employees? Did he suddenly learn how to read code?

It seems dots need to be connected for those who seem to think a forced famine is not an intentional act.... The Holodomor is "intentional" because the act of reforming the socioeconomic system in such a way necessitates losses. Stalin (or rather the Communist Party members responsible for implementing the new communist system) eliminated certain jobs in the old system without factoring in how the old skill sets could be transitioned into the new system. This created certain groups that were unable to provide for their own well being without any effective way to integrate them. In sociology, this is factored as an acceptable loss meaning the Russian Communists expected a certain amount of people to die.

What is he going to do when Trump is gone for real? He has to know by now that Trump is the losing horse.

I mean.... it does quite literally.

That's a much better looking truck than the cyber truck.

More like he's trying to avoid looking like he failed a negotiation. A deal that complex isn't solved in a matter of a week, and just the fact he got involved was enough to prevent a strike given the circumstances. (Yeah, I know the other unions were still threatening, but they wouldn't as long as the negotiations continued). He just got trigger happy when he probably should have had a little more faith in the parties to get the job done without causing an infrastructural shutdown.

Rare we're all in agreement. I honestly don't see the reason for trying to push this through given how reasonable the demands are and how rail owners have a vested interest in agreeing to them in.. At best, it makes Biden look like he's jumpy when he should be projecting confidence in the process.

Well, yes. It’s presumed the rest have approved on the condition that the rejected ones will agree, though.