• mydude@lemmy.world
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            49 minutes ago

            As you guys also know, at the request of President Joe Biden, with the urging of the rail companies themselves and with the help of both parties in Congress, the government preemptively blocked railroad workers from striking in December of 2022 and forced workers to accept a contract that did not address the vast majority of issues that have been putting them our communities and our supply chain at hazard. Then two months later in February of 2023, the Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic chemical disaster happened in East Palestine.

            They tried to be neutral in this article, but we all know what happened.

          • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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            2 hours ago

            But it is his fault he didn’t do more to tell people he did that instead of just letting it look like he crushed the strike