The president applauded both sides for coming to an agreement.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    99·
    3 months ago

    Joe doesn’t have a big mouth like Trump, but he actually does accomplish things. Trump’s jealous because he has no clue about how

    Pete Buttigieg was point man and mentioned by both sides. History will tell a story about Pete IMO.

    • popcap200@lemmy.ml
      32·
      3 months ago

      It’s still crazy to me that Trump has all three branches and didn’t pass a single piece of major legislation.

        • popcap200@lemmy.ml
          10·
          3 months ago

          Lmao that’s true. Does that count as major? It PALES in comparison to the Biden Infrastructure bill in terms of scope.

      • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        3 months ago

        Thursday’s deal came after Biden administration officials met with foreign-owned shipping companies before dawn on Zoom, according to a person briefed on the day’s events who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The White House wanted to increase pressure to settle, emphasizing the responsibility to reopen the ports to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene, the person said.

        Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told them she could get the union to the bargaining table to extend the contract if the carriers made a higher wage offer. Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the carriers they had to make an offer by the end of the day so a manmade strike wouldn’t worsen a natural disaster, the person said.

        By midday the Maritime Alliance members agreed to a large increase, bringing about the agreement.

        • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
          1·
          3 months ago

          You seem to be proving my point, in what way does Biden deserve credit for not squashing the longshoreman’s strike like he did the railworkers’?

        • banshee@lemmy.world
          13·
          3 months ago

          Is liberal supposed to have a negative connotation?

          Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

          • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
            1·
            3 months ago

            Read David Graeber: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules

            The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.

            History reveals that political policies that favor “the market” have always meant even more people in offices to administer things, but it also reveals that they also mean an increase of the range and density of social relations that are ultimately regulated by the threat of violence. This obviously flies in the face of everything we’ve been taught to believe about the market, but if you observe what actually happens, it’s clearly true. The bureaucratization of daily life means the imposition of impersonal rules and regulations; impersonal rules and regulations, in turn, can only operate if they are backed up by the threat of force. And indeed, in this most recent phase of total bureaucratization, we’ve seen security cameras, police scooters, issuers of temporary ID cards, and men and women in a variety of uniforms acting in either public or private capacities, trained in tactics of menacing, intimidating, and ultimately deploying physical violence, appear just about everywhere—even in places such as playgrounds, primary schools, college campuses, hospitals, libraries, parks, or beach resorts, where fifty years ago their presence would have been considered scandalous, or simply weird.

            • banshee@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              I used to hold the same belief and considered myself a proponent of limited governance. However, the individuals I know that advocated for smaller government did so because they preferred to be governed by the church instead.

              I don’t believe that labeling others as liberal or conservative helps anything.

              • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
                1·
                3 months ago

                Conservatives are also liberal, and I’m not interested in helping any government they’re considered a valid part of. In a sane world they’d be trying every living president at The Hague.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    3 months ago

    We had a major infrastructure strike. It was brief, workers got more of what they wanted on their terms. The sky didn’t fall, the entire economy didn’t immediately collapse.

    All the fearmongering surrounding rail workers being able to strike was anti-labor bullshit.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      Everyone talks like it’s the dock workers going on strike that’s the issue and not the corporations refusing to pay more.

      Businesses make decisions to have a strike by refusing to listen to their hundreds or thousands of workers.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Not that I oppose union strikes but it’s kind of dirty to do that to Democrats in the 11th hour. Not like their conditions would improve under Trump…

    So associating bad publicity of obstructing hurricane aid is genius.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      The union demands were extremely reasonable. What’s dirty is that the company would prefer it to get to this stage than actually pay the workers fairly.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I’m not sorry in the slightest that workers exercised their right to withhold their labor in order to get more favorable terms.

      If you interpret workers having rights as an attack, you should examine what that says about you and your wing of the party.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Supporting the exercising of worker’s rights != exercising them effectively.

        Again, they were short-sighted.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    The article text doesn’t support the headline (“Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic”):

    “ With the grace of God, and the goodwill of neighbors, it’s gonna hold,” President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday night after the agreement.

    In a statement later, Biden applauded both sides “for acting patriotically to reopen our ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding.”

    […]

    Thursday’s deal came after Biden administration officials met with foreign-owned shipping companies before dawn on Zoom, according to a person briefed on the day’s events who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The White House wanted to increase pressure to settle, emphasizing the responsibility to reopen the ports to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene, the person said.

    Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told them she could get the union to the bargaining table to extend the contract if the carriers made a higher wage offer. Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the carriers they had to make an offer by the end of the day so a manmade strike wouldn’t worsen a natural disaster, the person said.

    By midday the Maritime Alliance members agreed to a large increase, bringing about the agreement, according to the person.