Most railway workers get one day a month off. No weekends. This is because the bosses have been gutting the workforce to 'save' money. So the workers are all overworked. That's fine, I suppose, just squeeze them harder.
Seven days of paid sick-leave is chicken feed, and the Dems will celebrate this decision as a victory. Keep in mind that most corporations have fifteen paid sick days, and normal weekends. And in my opinion, this is not excessive. In New Zealand it is currently ten sick days, raised from five, just in the last year, when they realised many people would need at least five working days to get over bouts of Covid, which all the vaxxies are coming down with, with increasing frequency - i.e. more than twice a year, so people still have to chalk some of their sick days to annual leave, or unpaid leave anyway - given that they MUST isolate, and cannot go to work sick, as was the case before all this Covid nonsense.
However, I think republicans voted against the seven days, because they could see the workers getting screwed, when the railway companies are making record profits while reducing their services. They are all about shareholder profits, and are willing to waive all the normal worker-rights to do it. The unions also had no teeth in this decision, partly because they stupidly vote democrat. Weirdly, the Dems were historically always painted as the 'worker's party', but the tables are being turned, as they should be. I think this will maybe tip the unions into seeing the truth. Who were the three Rs that voted for this?
Also many people try to portray the unions as violent mobs who are greedy. This is a hangover from the 1980s. People tend to forget the role of unions which was to truly represent the workers - and of course communists jumped on that bandwagon with ease, with cries of 'workers unite'. I remember hearing union bosses described as 'card-carrying communists' in the eighties. Maybe some of them were. However, with some research, one can find that unions helped mine-workers to have at least SOME safety measures in place, so that they did not have to die with sickening regularity. Or, unions stopped child labour, and brought in 40 hour work-weeks - many were working 80 hours at back-breaking labor, before that. Now, they offer help with buying car-tires at a discount and things like that.
Keep in mind that rail-workers are exposed to asbestos and all sorts of chemicals every day, so they do get sick. But never mind, we must try and limit the number of days they get off from work, and overwork them, because hiring more people would cut into profits ...
Most railway workers get one day a month off. No weekends. This is because the bosses have been gutting the workforce to 'save' money. So the workers are all overworked. That's fine, I suppose, just squeeze them harder.
Seven days of paid sick-leave is chicken feed, and the Dems will celebrate this decision as a victory. Keep in mind that most corporations have fifteen paid sick days, and normal weekends. And in my opinion, this is not excessive. In New Zealand it is currently ten sick days, raised from five, just in the last year, when they realised many people would need at least five working days to get over bouts of Covid, which all the vaxxies are coming down with, with increasing frequency - i.e. more than twice a year, so people still have to chalk some of their sick days to annual leave, or unpaid leave anyway - given that they MUST isolate, and cannot go to work sick, as was the case before all this Covid nonsense.
However, I think republicans voted against the seven days, because they could see the workers getting screwed, when the railway companies are making record profits while reducing their services. They are all about shareholder profits, and are willing to waive all the normal worker-rights to do it. The unions also had no teeth in this decision, partly because they stupidly vote democrat. Weirdly, the Dems were historically always painted as the 'worker's party', but the tables are being turned, as they should be. I think this will maybe tip the unions into seeing the truth. Who were the three Rs that voted for this?
Also many people try to portray the unions as violent mobs who are greedy. This is a hangover from the 1980s. People tend to forget the role of unions which was to truly represent the workers - and of course communists jumped on that bandwagon with ease, with cries of 'workers unite'. I remember hearing union bosses described as 'card-carrying communists' in the eighties. Maybe some of them were. However, with some research, one can find that unions helped mine-workers to have at least SOME safety measures in place, so that they did not have to die with sickening regularity. Or, unions stopped child labour, and brought in 40 hour work-weeks - many were working 80 hours at back-breaking labor, before that. Now, they offer help with buying car-tires at a discount and things like that.
Keep in mind that rail-workers are exposed to asbestos and all sorts of chemicals every day, so they do get sick. But never mind, we must try and limit the number of days they get off from work, and overwork them, because hiring more people would cut into profits ...