If memory serves, the votes were not there for the sick days in the Senate mostly due to Republican opposition. Labor people who ignore that would be as foolish as those who voted for Trump (and there were a lot of them) in 2016 on the theory he was going to bring more jobs to the country. I agree with you that the lack of sick days and the scheduling generally in the railroads is appalling but I can't help but observe that the Democrats don't have the Congressional majorities to change that. Biden can't do it without Congressional authorization.
Particulars don't play into it that much, though. If you have one guy saying sorry, I want to help but I don't have the votes — and it's been ten years of Democratic presidents not having the votes for the card-check bill, with Obama unable to pass it even with his brief Senate supermajority — and his opponent saying it's God's will for you to have better wages and better treatment, the latter guy will be getting some votes.
I don't hold any particular brief for Obama and opposed many of his policy decisions. I do recall that he decided to spend all of his capital on healthcare.
In terms of attracting labor votes, saying somebody decided the top priority for unions was not a top priority for him isn't a good avenue for that, and if somebody like Hawley genuinely wants to make labor a priority, or can convince workers that's what he's doing, there's a good line of attack to be had. Unions really are shrinking, wages really are stagnating, working families really are struggling, NAFTA, TPP and etc. There's an opportunity.
Labor, like everyone else, has got to assess the likelihood of favorable policies from candidates based on objective analyses instead of hype. Anyone who believes Republicans will do more, indeed anything, for labor, than Democrats has got to be blind, deaf, and mentally challenged. Hawley ain't bringing any of his party compatriots with him if indeed he were serious which, of course, he's not. I can't believe you're seriously advocating labor voting Republican or believing a word Hawley says. Vote in real Democratic majorities, giving them a reason to take you seriously (which hasn't happened for years!) and if they don't come through do something different, but we're a very long way from that situation. The most recent Republican legislative acts on labor are the Taft/Hartley Act and right to work laws in individual states. There's a real pro labor record!
I'm not advocating that anyone vote for Republicans. I'm saying, I think accurately, that Democrats have either acted directly against the interests of labor — NAFTA, TPP, the rail settlement — or have failed to live up to their promises often enough to create an opportunity for Republicans, which we've seen happen in the very recent past, and that workers could, and I think will if he runs, find Hawley's pitch attractive.
Nicely curated. Comments are also engaging on this one. For the record, related to getting your disastrous manapua smell out of the apartment, it's lemons or oranges everywhere, or a certain Angry Citrus spray that may, if requested, be acquired in barter for the recent emergency delivery service.
If memory serves, the votes were not there for the sick days in the Senate mostly due to Republican opposition. Labor people who ignore that would be as foolish as those who voted for Trump (and there were a lot of them) in 2016 on the theory he was going to bring more jobs to the country. I agree with you that the lack of sick days and the scheduling generally in the railroads is appalling but I can't help but observe that the Democrats don't have the Congressional majorities to change that. Biden can't do it without Congressional authorization.
Particulars don't play into it that much, though. If you have one guy saying sorry, I want to help but I don't have the votes — and it's been ten years of Democratic presidents not having the votes for the card-check bill, with Obama unable to pass it even with his brief Senate supermajority — and his opponent saying it's God's will for you to have better wages and better treatment, the latter guy will be getting some votes.
I don't hold any particular brief for Obama and opposed many of his policy decisions. I do recall that he decided to spend all of his capital on healthcare.
In terms of attracting labor votes, saying somebody decided the top priority for unions was not a top priority for him isn't a good avenue for that, and if somebody like Hawley genuinely wants to make labor a priority, or can convince workers that's what he's doing, there's a good line of attack to be had. Unions really are shrinking, wages really are stagnating, working families really are struggling, NAFTA, TPP and etc. There's an opportunity.
Labor, like everyone else, has got to assess the likelihood of favorable policies from candidates based on objective analyses instead of hype. Anyone who believes Republicans will do more, indeed anything, for labor, than Democrats has got to be blind, deaf, and mentally challenged. Hawley ain't bringing any of his party compatriots with him if indeed he were serious which, of course, he's not. I can't believe you're seriously advocating labor voting Republican or believing a word Hawley says. Vote in real Democratic majorities, giving them a reason to take you seriously (which hasn't happened for years!) and if they don't come through do something different, but we're a very long way from that situation. The most recent Republican legislative acts on labor are the Taft/Hartley Act and right to work laws in individual states. There's a real pro labor record!
I'm not advocating that anyone vote for Republicans. I'm saying, I think accurately, that Democrats have either acted directly against the interests of labor — NAFTA, TPP, the rail settlement — or have failed to live up to their promises often enough to create an opportunity for Republicans, which we've seen happen in the very recent past, and that workers could, and I think will if he runs, find Hawley's pitch attractive.
Yes, and I'm saying if they do, they're suckers!
Doesn't matter, for electoral purposes.
Nicely curated. Comments are also engaging on this one. For the record, related to getting your disastrous manapua smell out of the apartment, it's lemons or oranges everywhere, or a certain Angry Citrus spray that may, if requested, be acquired in barter for the recent emergency delivery service.