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You vote Biden. Upvote! You vote Biden. Upvote! You vote Biden but have some criticism. Downvote! Downvote! Downvote! Yeehaw! Let’s ride this Neoliberal pony straight into Fascism canyon.

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Bidenomics hahhahahahhahaha

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President Bidens economic policies.

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Hahahahahahhahahhaha

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Hey Democrats, be sure to keep this news well hidden.

God forbid you celebrate your victories.

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Except IBEW members were granted more sick leave and they credit Biden

We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”

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Trying to claim that Biden is somehow anti-worker for that one situation is about as disingenuous as claiming that Republicans are pro-America.

For all the positive things Biden has done, from getting us through COVID and the shutdowns, as well as inflation, helping Ukraine, as well as helping spur domestic manufacturing in green technologies, only a fool would harp on that one is with railroad strikers.

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Keep in mind that Congress made the strike illegal with a veto proof majority. Expecting Biden to upend the legislature because you don’t like it is both ignorant and naive.

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Biden is extremely pro-union. Being pro-union doesn’t mean the unions get unfettered power. That’s how you end up with cop unions.

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He worked with the railroads after and the workers have gotten mostly what they were after.

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There are going to be a select group of people on the Left who will use and manipulate the story with the railroad workers to try to get people to turn on Biden. Let’s forget all the other things that he’s done. Let’s forget the absolute shit show that is the other side. That one issue is somehow enough to convince certain people to no support Biden.

Of course many of those people are being disingenuous with their arguments because like like 4 years ago and just like 8 years ago, there are a lot of “bad actors” sponsored by foreign governments who are trying to spread misinformation and apathy online to get Trump into office. The FBI has been warning us about this for years now, but few take it seriously and almost no one thinks that some of the people they are interacting with online are indeed foreign agents, but that is a very real reality.

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the workers have gotten mostly what they were after.

Imagine living in a world where you wanted 15 days of paid sick leave and only get 1 and people on the internet count that as “getting mostly what you were after.” I guess if I go to a restaurant and order a steak and the waiter comes over and spits a hunk of old shoe leather in my mouth I should feel grateful since that’s “getting mostly what I was after.”

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I found the Russian bot.

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You’re just spreading incorrect and out of date information here. Here’s a quote from the union Railroad Department Director Al Russo with the IBEW:

“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers."

Source: https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

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Way to go everyone, we kept wages suppressed and still managed to generate more profits off of their labor! Hooray!

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The plan. It just… works!

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