Posted on 11/28/2022 3:38:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
President Biden on Monday called on Congress to pass legislation to avert a rail shutdown before Dec. 9, warning of major disruptions to the U.S. economy if lawmakers don’t act.
He said Congress should pass a bill “immediately to adopt the Tentative Agreement between railroad workers and operators — without any modifications or delay — to avert a potentially crippling national rail shutdown.” Biden’s plea to Congress comes amid an ongoing labor standoff that could shut down crucial shipments of food and fuel.
The tentative Biden-backed agreement in September was approved by labor and management negotiators, but not every rail union has signed on.
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HE likes the deal, so those workers can kiss his smelly diapered butt!
What a feckless, ineffectual and worthless individual we have as POTUS.
He is just trying to shift blame to congress.
Biden wants to blame congress when/if the shut down happens.
True.
Does he crush the powerful corrupt top union bosses who gave him and other Dems the hapless union members compulsory dues?
Does he let the citizens suffer from recession and supply interruptions?
Does he go back to eat Cream of Rice and watch TV?
Brandon made a deal. Took a victory lap or two as well.
Biden says deal averting rail worker strike avoided ‘real economic crisis’
He was doing a victory lap in September cuz he was that great.
Isn’t this a scene from “Atlas Shrugged”? It was a book on dystopia, not a manual.
On the same level as the Student Loan Forgiveness. The railroad deal was just smoke and mirrors to get Dems past the Nov. midterms.
Why doesn't the hollow man in a empty suit issue an executive order?
Passing the buck to congress to avoid angering union?
Biden says deal averting rail worker strike avoided ‘real economic crisis’
There was no “ end deal” they just deferred and gave the unions leverage.
Why is congress intervening with the unions negotiations with the rail companies?
Ask your chi com bosses, traitor.
What a feckless, ineffectual and worthless individual we have as POTUS.
Yes, 10000%, Pres Trump would have been able to do something about this and come up with a solution. GUARANTEED.
However, don’t blame CornPop on this one. All the blame rests on the unions, themselves and Mantle Ridge for igniting this disaster.
When Mantle Ridge, Paul Hilal and Hunter Harrison took over CSX, they decimated the company. Typical Wall St/HedgeFund management. Cut everything to the bone. If you don’t like working here, we’ll find someone that will. They did the same thing to Canadian Northern and Canadian Pacific.
Goal is/was to cut everything to the bone, making it more efficient, boost stock prices, then sell it all and leave a disaster.
Norfolk Southern started following the same management style.
Problem....they were not and have not been able to find the workers needed to replace everyone. Folks don’t want those jobs anymore. They’re hard. And in the first few years, you get put to a test. Toss in underpowered trains, accidents, lengthy delays, not enough crews to run the trains or make repairs, etc.
Train crews, engineer and conductor, can only be on duty for 12hrs. Even if 6 or 8 of those hours are idling on a track, unable to move for one reason or another. And they’re afforded mandatory rest, just like a pilot or truck driver. Everything is automated and there’s no cheating.
Hunter Harrison, speaking before a committee in DC, when asked about delays, etc, responded saying that his duty was to the shareholders, not the customers, as they are a captive audience. When a ship is unloaded in Savannah or Charleston, there are only two railroads that can take their stuff, CSX or NS.
Sooooooooo.....when all of that started and the cuts started coming, cuts in the 1000s, who DID NOT say a word? Who kept their mouths shut? Who went along with it all?
The Unions. I guess the union bosses saw what was coming and thought it would be better to start snatching up stock in the railroads rather than look out for the 1000s that were fired.
So, I guess someone in DC, that had a brain and some situational awareness could have avoided all of this. That person was voted out of office in 2020, BTW. But, a considerable amount of this is in the laps of the very unions that are bitching and moaning.
Nationalization of the rail companies.
I thought smelly diaper brain took care of this already?
pResident numb-nuts took credit for solving this week’s ago.
Now that it’s heading south, he’s gonna place the blame somewhere else.
Build pipelines and stop importing CCP stuff.
Problem solved.
Railroads [somewhat like windmills] are so 19th Century.
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