Joe is setting a precedent. Now Congress must resolve all labor/management issues. We are a nation in serious decline
>>Joe is setting a precedent. Now Congress must resolve all labor/management issues.
Not really a precedent, it’s been that way since Taft-Hawley in 1947. Remember Reagan smiting PATCO in 1981?
The Railway Labor Act was enacted in 1926.
The government has overseen railway labor/management issues ever since.
Woodrow Wilson nationalized the Railroads during World War I, that’s basically the precedent.
In that episode, he threatened to draft every railroad employee into the Army, who would then be guilty of disobeying a direct order by refusing to go to work, and then thrown in jail.
While this kind of action might have control freaks and other assorted leftists salivating, there isn’t some readily available pool of choo-choo train engineers cooling their heels somewhere ready to play “scab” or whatever and cross picket lines?