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Reagan. Possibly others, like Harding, but that was before my time.

We should all keep calling it Twitter and let Elon get pissed at getting dead-named.

Ups and fedex still frequently use USPS for last mile in many areas. USPS has a mandate to serve and maintain infrastructure in the whole US, and the corporations use that. So does Amazon of course.

Ok a court filing, DeSantis lawyers defined "woke" as, "the belief that there are systemic inequities in US society and the need to work against them".

Which is not bad as a definition, really.

The ibew is one of the more conservative of the 13 separate rail unions, whose strategy involves lobbying Democrats instead of organizing. So of course they're going to praise Biden. My own union isn't as bad, but also throws praise at Biden even tho his administration was a negative influence on our negotiations. For a better view of rail labor, I'd listen to Railworkers United, a caucus of rail workers across all 13 separate unions to pressure the unions to work together and demand more for members. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/RWU-Issues-Official-Statement-on-PEB--250.html?soid=1116509035139&aid=Bt3zn_HU0ik

Biden was a bad influence on West Coast longshore negotiations. As our negotions started, he had both the ILWU president and the employer's representative onto the battleship Iowa to pledge to not prepare for a strike. The union did not prepare for a strike, but the shippers diverted a huge amount of cargo away from the West Coast thru the Panama Canal. Granted, a West coast longshore strike stops 40% of US imports. But removing the threat means the employers have zero incentive to budge.

My experience says that they'd point at non union competition as an excuse to say no to union demands in negotiations.

I agree that the Democrats COULD win votes on a pro-working class platform.

But it ain't going to happen. The Democratoc Party and its associated networks have a voting base that is very different from its funding base.

I think in lots of ways Biden has governed to the left of Obama. While Obama's response to 2008 was to support the banks and leave the working class out to dry (mortgage support existed but was largely unfulfilled, requiring voluntary participation from banks with no interest in doing so), Biden's covid response had more direct support and progressive programs like the child tax credit. Biden has also done more for climate change in the infrastructure bill.

But in many ways Biden still doesn't take the workers' side, like in the already mentioned railroad strike.

The truth is that the railroad workers know their position in the economy all too well and expected the government to end a strike quickly if they let it go at all.

The big disappointment is that Biden and Congress choose the company's proposals as the basis for the imposed contract instead of the Union's demands on time off, staffing, and safety.

In fact the companies were counting on it, which is why they never moved from their outrageous demands in negotiations.

Both are true, tho one came first.

Tho they might not experience other oppressions, all working people are still exploited and dependent upon players to exist. And most oppressed people are working people. The working class does not mean just white people, the working class is diverse.

It depends on the kind of strike. Workers that strike over a company's unfair labor practice are protected from permanent replacements. This is not that tho. While they are far apart, I don't think they can accuse the companies of refusing to negotiate.

Of course if the union wins the strike then no replacement.

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