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Both parties are anti-union, against free college and anti-migrants but sure keep voting for blue fascists will make the country better

  • Lurker123 [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    With respect to the union point, Abruzzo at the NLRB has been pretty based. She rescinded the Trump era directives (which were super employer sided, see for example his NLRB GC’s ridiculous workplace salting and union representative directives) and replaced them with union sided directives. This has resulted in several challenges and overrulings of long-standing pro-employer precedent (see e.g. cemex, overruling a 1969 precedent). And the Biden board members have been significantly more union sided than trumps (cemex was a party-line split vote among the board, and there were several anti-Amazon and Starbucks rulings that made the news early in Biden’s presidency if you recall).

    This union-friendly NLRB is probably, in part, why the number of union applications has doubled compared to Trump’s term. For context, forget about how massive of an increase doubling is - this is the first time the amount of union applications has increased between presidential terms at all in the last 50 years.

    This is not to say “vote blue no matter who” or even “vote.” in the first place. You do you. But I think it’s important that your decision to do whatever you will is made on the facts. And there is a pretty material gulf between Biden and Trump’s NLRB board and NLRB GC.