Poll of the Day > Strike strike strike! UAW is probably going to go on strike tonight.

(+) Yeah! (+)

This is going to be very interesting to me, 'cause I build car parts for the automotive factories so I may have some free time.
But also looks like they're fighting for a 32 hour workweek, which, if that goes through, could reasonably flow down to the rest of the manufacturing world.

Tis the season of strikes. Bring it on.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Tis the season of strikes. Bring it on.

Does that make it weird for me to be happy to finally have a job?

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Does that make it weird for me to be happy to finally have a job?

Nope. Be happy however.

Anyone else getting kind of annoyed that all these sectors decided to strike during Biden's term? This is what? Strike (or threatened strike) #8 in the past year?
None of them did when Trump was president, and idiots are already blaming Biden for the inflation that Trump's economic policies (the 2017 tax cut for the rich, running YUGE budget deficits, the PPP scam, the 2020 Fed Reserve money printing spree and Trump before the pandemic demanding they keep rates near zero despite a good economy from Obama....)
Guarantee the near constant striking is going to be used next year in attack ads against Democrats.

streamofthesky posted...

Anyone else getting kind of annoyed that all these sectors decided to strike during Biden's term? This is what? Strike (or threatened strike) #8 in the past year?
None of them did when Trump was president, and idiots are already blaming Biden for the inflation that Trump's economic policies (the 2017 tax cut for the rich, running YUGE budget deficits, the PPP scam, the 2020 Fed Reserve money printing spree and Trump before the pandemic demanding they keep rates near zero despite a good economy from Obama....)
Guarantee the near constant striking is going to be used next year in attack ads against Democrats.

Well.
There were promises made to bring wages up, bringing the pension back, and a bunch of other things. Then COVID happened, and that didn't happen, fair enough. We're now officially out of the pandemic (it's just regular 'ol disease now), and those promises were explicitly not kept.
This is how you keep business honest about what they say they will do.

But Biden is officially pro-worker (even though he fucked over rail workers), so this should be a great boon to him and his popularity. The president who helped the people get a 32 hour workweek, increased wages, and everything else.

It has officially begun.
Strikes in the plant making Bronco and Ranger for ford, Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator for Stellantis, and Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon, Chevrolet Express, and GMC Savana for GM.
They're striking the big ones.

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And in a lot of cases, negotiations have been ongoing for a while with companies resisting making changes that would benefit workers, and it's just come to a point where the exploding cost of living is too much for workers to bear. That means taking drastic action to force companies to stop dragging their feet.

Biden didn't give a strong direction, other than record profits should bring record wages.

shadowsword87 posted...

But Biden is officially pro-worker

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/3/AACCuwAADpCR.jpg

Hey, I'm happy to be wrong.