DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoRisk of major disruption as UPS strike looms in USwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10cross-posted to: collapse@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareDreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoExcept that the Biden Administration kept working with the railroad unions for months after the strike to pressure the railroad companies to give them sick leave, resulting in the railroad companies caving and giving the unions everything they wanted this spring. Union leaders are on record saying they couldn’t have gotten it done without the Administration’s help. But progress doesn’t sell as well in the papers as doom and despair, so almost no one knows about it.
Except that the Biden Administration kept working with the railroad unions for months after the strike to pressure the railroad companies to give them sick leave, resulting in the railroad companies caving and giving the unions everything they wanted this spring. Union leaders are on record saying they couldn’t have gotten it done without the Administration’s help.
But progress doesn’t sell as well in the papers as doom and despair, so almost no one knows about it.