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Let's talk about Biden, the rails, and sick days....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Let's talk about Biden, the rails, and sick days....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, Lizboo again.

0:03.0

So today we are going to talk about Biden and railways and sick days

0:08.0

and something I called the first real mistake of his administration

0:12.0

and an update on that story.

0:15.0

Okay, so if you have no idea what happened and where all of this is coming from,

0:20.0

not too long ago, there was a labor dispute on the railroads.

0:29.0

The unions wanted a number of things, something that was was very very important to them was paid

0:34.3

sick days and the ability short notice paid sick days and that that normal union struggle wasn't moving along.

0:50.0

The Biden administration stepped in, tried to negotiate, and try to help on behalf of the unions,

0:57.0

got them some stuff, but did not get them what they wanted.

1:01.0

Okay? And it set up a situation where it was quickly moving towards a rail strike that

1:09.6

would have just absolutely ground the US economy to a halt.

1:15.7

And the Biden administration got on board with using the power of Congress to break the strike.

1:26.0

When he did that, it angered a whole lot of people who are supportive of unions.

1:34.0

Kof, me, and a whole bunch of other people.

1:37.0

And it was at that time that I called it the first a real mistake of his administration.

1:48.0

And it was at that time that he made this promise, politicians promise, standard stuff. You know I believe in

1:54.6

paid sick days and I think railroad workers should get that blah blah blah and

1:59.1

we're going to continue to work to get it for them.

2:03.5

Yeah, I never saw any legislation.

2:04.8

I never saw any action.

2:07.9

Okay, so now that I've said all that, I want to read this. We're thankful that the Biden administration played the long game

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