Unions and management reached a tentative deal early Thursday, averting a freight railroad strike that had threatened to cripple US supply chains and push prices higher for many goods.
The union still has to vote on it, so I don't know why everyone is saying it's over and averted already.
ONE? jfc i hate union leadership, take EVERYTHING, you have those motherfuckers by the balls with how much youre threatening them
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The deal gives the union members an immediate 14% raise with back pay dating back to 2020, and raises totaling 24% during the five-year life of the contract, that runs from 2020 through 2024. It also gives them cash bonuses of $1,000 a year. All told, the backpay and earlier bonuses will give union members an average of an $11,000 payment per person once the deal is ratified.
The union said the deal provides one additional paid day off a year as well a protections against discipline if they need time off to attend to routine and preventative medical care, as well as exemptions from attendance policies for hospitalizations and surgical procedures. Railroad actions against workers who were unable to be on call or report to work due to medical issues had stoked anger among union members.
So its 1 day a year plus around 11k plus basic sanity rules for healthcare. The raise is nice but fuck they have like zero off time from what I've seen, far less than in Europe
Also has to be ratified by the union membership vote
It's a tough position to be in for union leadership. Striking means all the members won't be getting paid for an indeterminate amount of time and missing even a single paycheck, can lead to serious, perhaps even catastrophic, consequences to some member's lives. I personally think it should ALWAYS be up to rank and file to reject a deal prior to a strike.
Leadership's role in the negotiating room is to get the best contract that the cultural, political and financial environment allows. Their role is not to unitarily decide whether the deal is good enough. Of course there are common sense, "go fuck yourself, this isn't enough" stances that are perfectly appropriate for negotiators to adopt, say if an aspect of the deal is not ratifiable on its face, but if there's a strike on the horizon, membership should be deciding whether or not to turn the wheel and avoid the collision not leadership. The real power of the union is it's members and they should be making decisions, not leadership.
This can lengthen time lines and delay justice and get people seeing conspiracy where there isn't, but it's NECESSARY if you want the kind of union that doesn't end up with a boss tweed type calling the shots and enriching leaders at the expense of the members.
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ONE? jfc i hate union leadership, take EVERYTHING, you have those motherfuckers by the balls with how much youre threatening them
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So its 1 day a year plus around 11k plus basic sanity rules for healthcare. The raise is nice but fuck they have like zero off time from what I've seen, far less than in Europe
Also has to be ratified by the union membership vote
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the union is the whorehouse of western politics and the union leadership are the pimps.
It's a tough position to be in for union leadership. Striking means all the members won't be getting paid for an indeterminate amount of time and missing even a single paycheck, can lead to serious, perhaps even catastrophic, consequences to some member's lives. I personally think it should ALWAYS be up to rank and file to reject a deal prior to a strike.
Leadership's role in the negotiating room is to get the best contract that the cultural, political and financial environment allows. Their role is not to unitarily decide whether the deal is good enough. Of course there are common sense, "go fuck yourself, this isn't enough" stances that are perfectly appropriate for negotiators to adopt, say if an aspect of the deal is not ratifiable on its face, but if there's a strike on the horizon, membership should be deciding whether or not to turn the wheel and avoid the collision not leadership. The real power of the union is it's members and they should be making decisions, not leadership.
This can lengthen time lines and delay justice and get people seeing conspiracy where there isn't, but it's NECESSARY if you want the kind of union that doesn't end up with a boss tweed type calling the shots and enriching leaders at the expense of the members.
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