Update (1315ET): As expected, Democrats have ‘crossed a line’ and voted to remove labor unions’ leverage by approving a bill to force them to accept the railroad labor deal.
Pelosi said in a letter to her colleagues last night that Democrats have stood with “hard-working railroaders in their fight against greedy railroad corporations for fairer wages, benefits and working conditions,” she said in the letter.
“However, we must act to prevent a catastrophic strike that would touch the lives of nearly every family: erasing hundreds of thousands of jobs, including union jobs; keeping food and medicine off the shelves; and stopping small businesses from getting their goods to market.”
House lawmakers voted 290 to 137 on legislation that would force the adoption of a tentative labor agreement by rail workers, using the power of a 1926 law that allows Congress to intervene in railroad disputes that threaten to disrupt the U.S. economy.
US equities have rebounded on the news…
One of these days, the union members will wake up to the fact that the dumbocrats only want their votes and money…the politicians don’t give a crap about the actual workers….
Tens of thousands of Union members have already woke up and seen the light 5:07. They helped Trump win in 2016 and tried again in 2020 but we all got cheated from a victory.
All Biden did was PAY them off & make it so they can’t strike for two years !!!
They didn’t get paid off 603, they got screwed.
Don’t these union people realize that the Democrats can drop college loan relief anytime they want?
11:06, these are Union workers, people that actually work for a living, not pencil pushers. They don’t have student loans, and don’t want student loans paid off by taxpayers.
Railroads could have had Biden IMPEACHED !!! Big opportunity Missed !!! They Held the UPPER HAND !!!
Please tell us how the Railroads could have had Biden impeached 9:10 ?