Posted on 11/29/2022 6:06:43 AM PST by rktman
The unions donate almost 100% to democrats and almost nothing to Republicans.
Wait, ole Union Joe failed at striking a labor bargain?
Clowns are not persuasive negotiators, and the chief clown is the least persuasive of all.
Even though the upper bosses in the unions are Democrats to the core, they find it hard to deal with the Democrat Socialists. And they start out so much more hard-boiled than the flippant Harvard-trained ideologues that are the acting team leaders of the Democrat Socialists.
Union thugs are a bunch of dumbass suckers. The RATS own them. LOL.
You left out the U.S. voting to NOT let the big money folks fund Guyana drilling for their sweet crude to the tune of approx 11 billion barrels per joementia’s anti oil screed. Guess who stepped in to pony up the funding. Yup. Chi-nuh! They can load up their tankers and transit the Panama Canal that they operate now. After all the heavy crap that may come out of venezoola will suit us just fine for the little time we have left to use “fossil fuels”. We got a fossil FOOL running things.
Railroads were intertwined with government entities from the very first. To open the western territories, railroads were granted an enormous number of land sections in the land plats for the layout of their tracks, and they then turned around and sold these sections for their enrichment, founding towns and bring commerce to regions that only then were beginning to be settled. The Post Office used the railroads as their long-distance delivery vehicles, and while not all railroads gained from Federal assistance, many were founded and supported by the states themselves, like Illinois Central, among others. Railroads have always been regulated and yes, subject to taxation, sometimes at an extremely unfair rate, by local taxing authorities. So yes, the history of railroads and government at all levels is woven in innumerable ways. “Special relationship”, doncha know.
I wrote etc, but was not aware of that.
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“... try to blame...” No trying required. 🚂👍
Force the contract?
Kinda like force the vaccines?
FJB
I don’t think I posted to you two about this previously, but I highly recommend The Men Who Built America.
It’s a great miniseries/documentary.
It talks about steel/railroads/oil/finance…
Thanks. I’ve seen some of it.
Another reason to not allow public employee unions.
Yep. Truman sic’d the army on the unions to avoid a costly strike after WWII.
Because the wanted to be. It’s also in the constitution, allowing congress to regulate interstate commerce.
I think he’s more likely to steamroll the railroads.
Just because it’s HARD doesn’t mean they can’t strike.
Found this info:
https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/fra_net/1647/Railway%20Labor%20Act%20Overview.pdf
The RLA also provides mandatory dispute resolution procedures (outlined below) that preclude strikes over union
representation and grievance disputes, and postpone the ability of the parties to take action in bargaining
disputes until they have completed an elaborate, time-consuming process involving negotiation,
mediation by the NMB, possible review by a Presidential Emergency Board (”PEB”), and cooling-off
periods.
I ASSUME that when JOEY said he had worked out a “Deal” his deal came from the PEB. Did this even happen?? Sounds like some unions REJECTED the PEB recommendation.
These following steps seem to come AFTER the strike starts not BEFORE.
V. DOT’S ROLE IN RLA LABOR DISPUTES
Rail Bargaining Disputes. DOT/Federal Railroad Administration (”FRA”) becomes involved in contract
disputes at key junctions:
- FRA monitors the progress of the contract negotiations.
- FRA projects the economic impact of a strike at the time the NMB ends mediation; these projections
help form the basis for the NMB’s determination of whether to recommend the appointment of a PEB.
- The Secretary advises the President regarding the convening of a PEB. The Secretary’s analysis is
especially critical when the dispute involves a regional carrier or a carrier that is financially marginal.
- If a PEB is appointed and its recommendations are rejected, FRA prepares an updated economic
impact statement.
- FRA prepares the Secretary’s testimony for any Congressional hearings, briefs the Secretary, and
assists at the hearings.
- FRA Chief Counsel’s Office drafts back-to-work legislation in consultation with the General Counsel, and
works with Congressional committee staffs on fashioning appropriate legislative relief.
KEY NEXT STEP -
- FRA monitors the national rail transportation situation DURING THE STRIKE.
Railroads are dangerous enough with “qualified/trained” personnel. Just wait until they fill the Striker’s positions with Illegals and Scabs. This will get very interesting. According to RLA, the strikers can’t be fired just for striking.
Presidents have called out the army to shoot striking railworkers as far back as the 1870s. They should make Biden have to do the same thing all because they’re refusing to give people sick days.
Government has no right to interfere with this labor dispute. The Railroad and the Railroad Unions need to figure this out. Yes, the entire country will suffer from a strike here and I don’t want to see it. Be that as it may, I believe that government intervention in these types of disputes is akin to Fascism unless in times of war.
He got the union vote for the Midterms and now wants Congress to be the “guilty” party forcing a deal.
You forgot joementia’s reminder that those pesky rights are not ‘absolute’.
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