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Rail Workers Call Out Biden For Showing His 'True Colors'
townhall.com ^ | 12/3/2022 | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 12/04/2022 8:54:49 AM PST by rktman

Rail workers are calling out President Joe Biden after he forced the unions to accept the deal, claiming that the president has no concern for the quality of life of the workers.

A week after Congress voted to avoid a railway industry strike, rail workers are warning of the negative consequences Biden’s decision will have.

In an 80-15 vote, Congress voted on three measures relating to rail worker demands, codifying an agreement negotiated by the White House and 12 of the nation’s rail unions.

The director of communications for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED), Clark Ballew, said that the union will not forget who had their backs when they fought for paid sick days.

"You can damn well bet that railroaders took note of who stood with us and who failed to support the basic common decency of paid sick days," Ballew said, representing the third largest rail union in the U.S.

The rail union workers cautioned that Biden could face struggles in the next presidential election “because Biden's slowly showing the true colors.”

“I've always known he is only looking for votes, but several unions and members are just now realizing that. If he cared, wanted to show that he cared about the work that we're doing and some of the sacrifices we have had to make, he should have stayed out of this or fought harder,” a rail union worker said.

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To: rktman

“the president has no concern for the quality of life of the workers”

Well, duh.


41 posted on 12/04/2022 12:06:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: rktman

Sleep with the devil...and find that you’ve been damned!


42 posted on 12/04/2022 12:08:12 PM PST by magyar
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To: rktman

Read an article that stated $110,000 K salary in near future.
Can someone inform me what are the qualifications for a railroad worker?


43 posted on 12/04/2022 12:15:22 PM PST by Lumper20 (rd the Chinks in China. )
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To: rktman

The Rail Unions ought to do 2 things. They should strike anyway and tell union employees to vote Republican!


44 posted on 12/04/2022 12:20:48 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (AL)
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To: rktman
"...wanted to show that he cared about the work that we're doing..."

Isn't the main bitch all about sick days? Sit down and shaddap.

45 posted on 12/04/2022 12:50:53 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: rktman

Bwahahahaha! I love it when people get what they voted for!

*nosympathy


46 posted on 12/04/2022 12:52:12 PM PST by Vaden (Real conservatives will not allow our wagon to be hitched to fascist Russia)
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To: dowcaet

They will learn the easy way, or they will eventually learn the hard way that the criminal D party is about power and control. Not helping people. Duped idiots.


47 posted on 12/04/2022 12:55:22 PM PST by Vaden (Real conservatives will not allow our wagon to be hitched to fascist Russia)
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To: DownInFlames

Yup. My in-laws will vote D regardless of what Biden does.


48 posted on 12/04/2022 1:11:41 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: CedarDave
He received penalty points that will require him to work non-stop for two months to make up for that single non-sick day off.

I'd die from fatigue after about 48 hours straight!

49 posted on 12/04/2022 1:37:47 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CedarDave

It’s not my job to run the train,
The whistle I don’t blow.
It’s not my job to say how far
The train’s supposed to go.
I’m not allowed to pull the brake,
Or even ring the bell.
But let the damn thing leave the track
And see who catches hell!


50 posted on 12/04/2022 1:38:56 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Vaden

And even then they’ll say the Democrats are the lesser of two evils because Republicans are the party of the rich and the mean corporations. Stupid is what stupid does. Pennsylvania RATS proved that by voting one comatose man to the US Senate and overwhelmingly re-electing a dead man, already in his grave, back to the state legislature.


51 posted on 12/04/2022 2:34:35 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: rktman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVnur5DkdI


52 posted on 12/04/2022 3:09:28 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: Lumper20

Just keep reading all the threads on this situation.

FReepers ALL seem to know all about the job, the unions, the contract and just everything.


53 posted on 12/04/2022 5:47:44 PM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Bonemaker

Consider the possibility that the union controls who makes it onto the ballot for union elections, and that the union counts the votes, and that contested union elections have not made it into news, even though union members and union bosses (not leaders) are typically from different political parties.
In order to change a national union’s leadership, the opposition might have to win 30-50 local union elections without a major loss. There are dozens of tricks, dirty and otherwise, to win in an honest count, and one basic way to win a election that the bosses have lost. Lie. Keep lying. Never admit that the vote count is a lie.


54 posted on 12/04/2022 6:29:41 PM PST by bIlluminati (Demonetize the Left. Buy nothing from them. Sell nothing to them. Shun them.)
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To: Brian Griffin

The federal law ignores contract law, which is stated in the Constitution. It also violates the anti-slavery amendment.


55 posted on 12/04/2022 6:36:18 PM PST by bIlluminati (Demonetize the Left. Buy nothing from them. Sell nothing to them. Shun them.)
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