SoupGuru: That's it, I'm voting for trump. That will surely be in the working man's interest.

That's actually going to be the lesson here. If Democrats aren't going to operate in the working man's interest, we might as well lower our taxes while we get farked in the ass.

Democrats have once again shown their true colors: that they are limousine liberals who only have coastal capital in their interests.

The incoming house leadership is dominated by New York and California Democrats who have shown fealty to corporate interests and incumbency. The new leaders were not selected for their adherence to the Democratic Party platform nor for their ability to lead. They were selected because of their ability to fundraise to the big donors.

This was reflected by this week's forcing of a rejected contract onto the unions that rejected the contract. The rail workers are across the country but don't have the donor power that the rail road companies do. As recent graphs have shown, Railroad companies increased their donations to the Democrats after Joe Biden won the nomination in anticipation of this showdown and have not been negotiating with the unions in good faith.

The unions' main show of force is the ability to strike. If they are not able to strike, we are removing their ability to negotiate. If we remove their ability to negotiate, we have abandoned all workers across the country.

This week's vote is reflective of last summer's show of Democratic force to reject an amendment to force government contractual operators not to engage in anti-union behaviors. Many challenges that it was an unnecessary amendment, but the vote reflected the true anti-union values held by the Democratic Party.

This week'a vote against the unions was structured similar to the BBB/BIF split last year. Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer cleaved a large reconciliation budget bill into two halves - the corporate bill (BIF) and the social bill (BBB) - and engineered the death of the social bill while passing the corporate bill with flying colors. The Congressional Progressive Caucus went along with this charade and passed the BIF while claiming to support the BBB while knowing full well the BBB was going to be killed.

Similarly, this week's vote cleaved the union's contract into two: the union busting bill that passed with flying colors and the sick leave the union workers are fighting for. The CPC played a similar role where they passed the union busting bill and claimed to support the sick leave bill knowing they didn't have the votes for it.

This is a charade to present the Republicans as anti-union - which they are - while feigning Democratic fealty to the worker. But, if the Democrats supported the worker, they would have passed the sick leave in the original contract and forced a vote on the union friendly contract. Instead, they engineered a contract rejected by 4 unions representing 55% of all rail workers.

Joe Biden campaigned on passing mandatory sick leave and, 2 years in, he is forcing contracts that ensure workers do not get sick leave.

This is Joe Biden's actual form: Ronald Reagan 2.0

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Is it your belief that there are 80 Republicans in the Senate?

There are 84 Republicans in the Senate. 44 of them just call themselves Democrats.

shpritz: It's not fair to shiat on Senate Democrats. The House farked up by splitting the bill. They should've passed both of them together and then the Senate's choice would be between "give them the sick days" and "let them strike."

Senate Democrats (Chuck Schumer) should have passed the sick leave first and filibustered the contract if they didn't pass the sick leave.

Hinged: DoctorCal: Conservatives are such incredibly shiatty people.

Democrats did this to the unions.

Try to catch up.

He did say conservatives.

LrdPhoenix: And you know, a 24% raise over the next 2 years, a one time lump payment for everyone, $1000 a year bonus for 5 years, an extra day of paid vacation to throw on top of their minimum 2 weeks a year/maximum about a month and a half depending on how long they've worked there, etc.

Yeah, they're really getting railed alright.

All of that means shiat if you're fired because you or your kids get sick enough times.