The infrastructure bill was 1.2 Trillion. It will have a huge positive impact on the economy. You should be slightly more concerned about getting your facts straight.
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President Biden Praises Apple Employees in Maryland for Unionizing
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Amen. Almost all elected officials in the US spend like drunken sailors even after campaigning as 'conservatives'.
However, to quote Dan Bongino: “Republicans are not the solution to all our problems, but Democrats are most certainly a CAUSE of our problems.”
Just gotta keep trying to find those that don't want to just fall in line with the establishment.
Why? Because workers want a fair wage or better conditions?
I don't get why people are obsessed with defending billion dollar companies over workers.
I'm with you. I simply don't get why people are so gleeful/excited for the prospect of workers loosing their jobs for daring to ask for better conditions/wages?
You didn‘t even know how much the bill actually was. You don’t know what you’re waiting for. But rebuilding the infrastructure of an entire country after it’s been neglected for so long isn’t going to happen in 5 months.
So…what poison pills were in the bills? Sounds like you stretching the truth, link the bills. I doubt they were as clairvoyant as you make them to be
The Senate Budget Committee, which released a framework agreement over the summer, says that the investments will be fully offset by a combination of new tax revenues, health care savings and long-term economic growth, though the summary doesn’t provide details
This is cnn too
Here's what's in the Senate version of the Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending plan
Senate Democrats released their sweeping $3.5 trillion budget resolution on Monday, August 9 -- the latest step in their drive to expand education, health care and child care support, tackle the climate crisis and make further investments in infrastructure.
They wanted to pass a 3.5 trillion dollar bill and compromised. 1.2 is still a lot of cheddar in my book , again for no benefits
Just admit you love Democrats through and through and they can do no wrong even if the country goes broke and can’t afford gas food or find baby food on the shelves or keep up with hyperinflation to name just a few ... and you don’t really care if the country falls apart and we can all move along
It’s all so tiring and sad
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I disagree on unionization being a win-win for everyone. While I see how it can empower workers to make certain demands, it also all-too-often nurtures an environment of slower, lazier workers that hide behind the union with immunity.
Political grabs? Reporters asked him about it. It's not like he set up a press conference to discuss this very item.
If you have somebody with a battery run pacemaker in your family, you should tell him/her to immediately take it out, because it was invented in Sweden. But yeah Sweden don’t invent such much garbage like other countries, mainly things that matters.
Btw. Trash all your clothes and accessories that has Zippers, it was also invented in Sweden.
Just saw a docu few weeks ago about Skid Row - LA and I was just WTF.
The whole Germany and probably the whole Europe does not have a place like this, and the government does nothing to help.
And i don’t even want to mention the ones who are permanently living in travel trailers but working at Silicon Valley for worldwide known tech companies.
Poverty will always exist, but this tops a lot. It’s the hire and fire philosophy and the homelessness is just a paycheck away.
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Wow...what an incorrect and foolish comment.
This is surely just the output of some sort of random soudbyte generator, rather than something that is either correct, or even something that Biden might even halfway believe in real life.![]()
[...] "Workers have a right to determine under what condition they are going to work or not work," Biden told reporters. He went on to say that "everyone is better off, including the final product is better off," in reference to the unionization. [...]
Workers can decide where they may wish to work or not (and it is not clear that their decisions need to be binding on anyone other than themselves), but it is not clear that they have any "right" to impose their choices on their employers (or partners, or whatever). If you don't like the employment terms, go work elsewhere.
If respecting the will of the workers (or perhaps more widely the general proletariat) were so powerful in achieving better outcomes, how come America has so strongly resisted Socialism? And more, how come Communism has failed so spectacularly everywhere, despite being based on exactly those sentiments?
Once again, Joe Biden manages to underwhelm.
Surely there is a difference between unionisation in the face of exploitation, and the organising of workers in order to try to simply increase their advantage? Given the ease of being able to leave Apple and go find a job elsewhere, in an economy of relatively low unemployment, already gives workers the power to negotiate effectively. Particularly in a high labour-turnover industry such as retail. To gain any genuine advantage, those workers would have to be unionised in all similar work across all similar employment. This appears to be against the trend across the developed world.
Perhaps it's unfair, but unfortunately this smacks of a degree of activism in this particular workforce. That means people whose focus is less on doing a good day's work, and focussed more on increasing the benefits that they can extract from their employer. One can't help feeling that the net result of such activism is a lose-lose outcome, with underperforming employees and unhappy employer. A lot of retail staff have far too many distractions already. You can tell where they are most protected at work, because there is a lot more personal phone usage during working hours and a lot more customer waiting time because employees are busy having a break or a chat together.
In theory - absolutely. In practice though, with a target of 5% unemployment to avoid drastic salary increases, there will be significant number of people will not be able switch jobs easily. Take also into account, decreased mobility because of owned houses, spouses work situation, family to take care of etc. Just changing a job is not always possible.
Well obviously, what with him being a politician an' all... sorta goes with the territory.
There’ll be something ridiculous about pronouns I’m sure or something of that nature. They tried it at Google and look what happened
Wel, that was before oil and natural gas spiked rather significantly dur to a certain invasion, do keep up plz, the "who us bad" label does not currently apply ti anyon with oil to sell ( aspart from Russians), rhe tube will probably change rather swiftly once Ukraine is sirterpd and related embargoes from both sides are lifted
Hold on unions work for companies, i thought thay where on the other side if the negotiating table, oh buy have I been weong, thanks fir correcting me