Massive railroad strike is a go this Friday.

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Your union was able to get those things for you by using the threat of a strike. Creepy Joe has taken that option away from Railway workers unions. Now all they have is the kindness of government, God help them.

The railroad workers got a HUGE salary increase. They just did not get their paid sick days they sought.

 

[M14 Shooter]

The railroad workers got a HUGE salary increase. They just did not get their paid sick days they sought.

+24%.
Compared to their old rate, they're getting one day off for every 4 days they work.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

+24%.
Compared to their old rate, they're getting one day off for every 4 days they work.

That's the first I have heard about the days off.

 

[M14 Shooter]

That's the first I have heard about the days off.

Not literally.
If you get a 24% raise, you make the same $ in 4 days that to do in 5.
So, if you only work 4 days a week - taking 5th day off - you don't lose any money.
In essence, the raise allows them to take 52 paid days off per year - outside vacation time, etc.

 

[August West]

Not literally.
If you get a 24% raise, you make the same $ in 4 days that to do in 5.
So, if you only work 4 days a week - taking 5th day off - you don't lose any money.
In essence, the raise allows them to take 52 paid days off per year - outside vacation time, etc.

Take a day off every week and you`ll be fired, union or not. I was union for 35 years and dozens were canned for various offenses.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Not literally.
If you get a 24% raise, you make the same $ in 4 days that to do in 5.
So, if you only work 4 days a week - taking 5th day off - you don't lose any money.
In essence, the raise allows them to take 52 paid days off per year - outside vacation time, etc.

I'm sorry! I don't think that is quite accurate.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Take a day off every week and you`ll be fired, union or not.

M'kay.
1 per month. That's 12, with a raise.
2 per quarter. That's 8, with a bigger raise.
1 per quarter. That's 4, with an evern bigger raise.

 

[M14 Shooter]

I'm sorry! I don't think that is quite accurate.

Rounding a ltitle to make the math simpler:
$100/week $20/day Takes 5 days to make $100
$125/week $25/day Takes 4 days to make $100
Take 1 day off, and you still make the same $100 as your old rate.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

M'kay.
1 per month. That's 12, with a raise.
2 per quarter. That's 8, with a bigger raise.
1 per quarter. That's 4, with an evern bigger raise.

I don't think you understand that they cannot take time off whenever they want. Their biggest gripe was being on-call 24/7/365 when they were not already working.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Rounding a ltitle to make the math simpler:
$100/week $20/day Takes 5 days to make $100
$125/week $25/day Takes 4 days to make $100
Take 1 day off, and you still make the same $100 as your old rate.

That's NOT how it works and I don't know why you are deflecting from the topic.

 

[M14 Shooter]

That's NOT how it works and I don't know why you are deflecting from the topic.

That's how the math works.
The unions want 7 paid days. They effectively get 52.
Point is their raise means they can afford to take those 7 days unpaid.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That's how the math works.
The unions want 7 paid days. They effectively get 52.
Point is their raise means they can afford to take those 7 days unpaid.

STFU about math. I never questioned your math. They cannot take days off whenever they like! Why are you not getting that?

Don't work? Get fired!

 

[Seymour Flops]

The railroad workers got a HUGE salary increase. They just did not get their paid sick days they sought.

Because they do not have the threat of a strike.

I'm guessing sick days are pretty important to railroad workers, considering the unhealthy conditions they work in. I look for more of them now to claim disability, rather than watch their bank accounts be drained by along job-related illness.

Thanks, Biden! Like our transportation system wasn't a mess enough already.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Because they do not have the threat of a strike.

I'm guessing sick days are pretty important to railroad workers, considering the unhealthy conditions they work in. I look for more of them now to claim disability, rather than watch their bank accounts be drained by along job-related illness.

Thanks, Biden! Like our transportation system wasn't a mess enough already.

Very few people who have collective bargaining agreements have the right to strike. You are simply in error.

The reason they gave was paid time-off.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Very few people who have collective bargaining agreements have the right to strike. You are simply in error.

Please support that statement. The right to strike is not a function of a law "allowing" people to strike. People have a right to strike unless they have signed a contract agreeing not to.

The reason they gave was paid time-off.

And?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Will Biden fire the Railway Workers if they Strike?

Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers when they illegally struck. Would Biden have the same backbone?

 

[initforme]

Why would anyone want them fired?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Why would anyone want them fired?

Biden ordered them not to strike. What will he do if they defy him?

 

[August West]

Will Biden fire the Railway Workers if they Strike?

Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers when they illegally struck. Would Biden have the same backbone?

Why should he? Reagan`s idiocy caused a lot of disruption even though it was a hit with his low wage, white trash base.

 

[initforme]

Biden ordered them not to strike. What will he do if they defy him?

If I were POTUS I would pressure the company heads. Give em their sick days.