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But they do sing the closing song quite a bit.

How was it, dude?

History of the World, Part 1

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Based on what Pat posted, it looks like the problems are more fundamental than that. Their business model doesn’t allow for the added sick days, which is far more egrious than greed… it’s outright mismanagement and negligence. Adding the sick days won’t actually help. Reverting to a more sustainable model with smaller trains and more crews is the only way to make it work, and is going to cost investors.

I’m sorry man. Caleb should have come out when he was hurt, and Miller Moss would have powered us through the 3rd quarter.

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?