“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.
How accurate a description of the process is this? Is he telling the truth or is this the kind of mandatory politeness you get at the end of an agreement like this?
If it is accurate, that’s a completely bonkers PR strategy for the Biden administration: you took all the heat for shafting rail workers, and hardly anybody will see this quiet press release update months later. What happened?
Counterpoint: absolutely no one remembers this and it isn't going to affect Biden's PR numbers at all. Meanwhile, institutional actors directly involved in the issue will know the the actual results, and utilize their power to continue to drive union support, etc, for Biden, his campaigns, and other agenda issues.
I also don't know the details of how true this is, but I think it aligns with Biden's definitely-not-perfect-but-overall-pretty-good understanding of how to work the political system to achieve results.
This is why Unions are good, they give you your basic rights when fighting against overreacting corporations like the Freight Companies
Also, This isn’t and should be viewed as a win for the Biden Administration even if they did aid in negotiations, it should be viewed a a win for organized labor and workers rights
