Biden asks Congress to avert railroad strike.

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Wanna know a secret?

Laws are only good as the paper they're written on until someone has the will to enforce it

Biden is cracking down because he WANTS to crack down, no more no less

There's no such thing as automatic enforcement

He and Congress are totally acting within the law.

 

[TearsInRain]

He and Congress are totally acting within the law.

You're evading the point, say it with me now:

Just because it's legal doesn't mean they have to enforce it

 

[728ups]

You're evading the point, say it with me now:

Just because it's legal doesn't mean they have to enforce it

Thats unrealistic and not how the USA works and we both know it

 

[TearsInRain]

Thats unrealistic and not how the USA works and we both know it

What are you talking about, the govt ignores law compliance ALL THE TIME

Just look at immigration, or insider trading, or really countless things

 

[Wally]

 

[Sacrificial Lamb]

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[rickyb]

@rickyb what say you? Let the workers strike or silence them?

im guessing they should have a right to strike

normally i would look up michael hudson, or richard wolff too, or i dont know hedges or chomsky for their ideas

 

[newfie]

 

[Frankie11]

Interesting thread! Could this happen at a potential UPS strike? Will management plead with congress to intervene?

 

[newfie]

Interesting thread! Could this happen at a potential UPS strike? Will management plead with congress to intervene?

different rules for ups

 

[TearsInRain]

Interesting thread! Could this happen at a potential UPS strike? Will management plead with congress to intervene?

Teamsters will bend the knee to whatever the DNC wants so yes of course it would happen

 

[Box Ox]

Interesting thread! Could this happen at a potential UPS strike? Will management plead with congress to intervene?

different rules for ups

Teamsters will bend the knee to whatever the DNC wants so yes of course it would happen

I'm confused. Could the Railway Labor Act be used to prevent a UPS strike or not?

 

[vantexan]

I'm confused. Could the Railway Labor Act be used to prevent a UPS strike or not?

Railway Labor Act applies to railroads and scheduled airlines. Fred S got FedEx determined as a scheduled airline which makes it about impossible to unionize.

 

[Wally]

Teamsters will bend the knee to whatever the DNC wants so yes of course it would happen

Ok with tough guy Sean.

 

[TearsInRain]

I'm confused. Could the Railway Labor Act be used to prevent a UPS strike or not?

No it wouldn't get that far

 

[Box Ox]

Railway Labor Act applies to railroads and scheduled airlines. Fred S got FedEx determined as a scheduled airline which makes it about impossible to unionize.

I guess what I’m more specifically wondering is whether there might be room for Congress to maneuver under the RLA to prevent a strike if any part of UPS has a railway component. Otherwise I’m back to wondering why some folks think Congress might have the power to intervene against a UPS strike.

 

[vantexan]

I guess what I’m more specifically wondering is whether there might be room for Congress to maneuver under the RLA to prevent a strike if any part of UPS has a railway component. Otherwise I’m back to wondering why some folks think Congress might have the power to intervene against a UPS strike.

UPS is under the National Labor Relations Act. Anything Congress can do towards a UPS strike will have to be in accordance with NLRA provisions. They'd have to vote to move UPS under the RLA in order for it to apply.

 

[newfie]

I'm confused. Could the Railway Labor Act be used to prevent a UPS strike or not?

no it can not

 

[Jones]

I'm confused. Could the Railway Labor Act be used to prevent a UPS strike or not?

No. Railroads and airlines are governed under the RLA (Railway Labor Act), UPS is a trucking company, and is governed under the NLRA (National Labor Relations Act).

 

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He and his conductor both contracted COVID in 2020 at a time when all of the Class I railroads had slashed their workforces because of precision scheduled railroading (PSR) running longer trains with fewer employees. Around the same time, the rail carriers had made major cuts to middle management and ground employees, forcing him and others “to do more with less.”

Unable to work for three days because of COVID, he received a call from his dispatcher threatening disciplinary action if he did not return to work.

“I had friends that I worked with for 20 years who died of COVID, but we couldn’t even go to their funerals without facing scrutiny by management,” the engineer said. “We had no choice but to work.”

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