The largest federal workers’ union this week threw its support behind a Republican government funding bill, ratcheting up pressure on Democrats.
But many of the top labor unions told ABC News that they continue to back the strategy taken up by Democrats, breaking with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents hundreds of thousands of federal workers losing out on pay and staring down the threat of layoffs.
Many labor unions, a key bloc within the Democratic Party, support the push for an extension of Obamacare subsidies and remain eager to fight a president they view as an adversary of workers, some labor analysts and union officials said.
Unionism in 'Murica is so fucking 'Murican…
It’s not about solidarity with other workers, it’s about extracting as much as possible and throwing everyone else on the scrap heap
Fuck any union member who votes conservative. They want all the benefits of something grounded in the collective action of socialism but ignore the responsibilities that come with it
America is a fucking joke, and always has been
The union supporting the measure is the union for government employees, the group of employees currently not getting paid. It is in the unions best short term interest to get its union members paid and fed.
You’re correct. It’s a good thing that no bad outcomes have ever come from prioritizing short term gains over long term stability or that might be a bad take.
Im not saying its a good move, its simply a move they are making
It’s not a legitimate union movement
It’s like the police unions.
But I think you already know that.
Im not saying its a movement. Its one union doing what it thinks is best for its members, which is getting money into their pockets by ending the shutdown
Why the fuck would any union worth the name support this kind of on-high mismanagement in the first place. It’s fundamentally antithetical to their fundamental function.
Find your balls and pick them up, please. Then try to keep them attached.
Because its the union representing all the members that are currently not getting paid. Im not going to say one way whether its the right move but it is their job to get their members paid
I don’t disagree with you. Think about it.
I absolutely think they should all strike. Should have been striking. Shut the country down more than whatever tf this is
Agreed.
AFGE reps ~15 million workers, most of whom haven’t been getting paid…
A “clean CR” would get them paid.
It wouldnt fix healthcare, but healthcare just broke anyways and so did SNAP. That won’t be fixed till a full Bill goes thru.
Like, if we’re playing chicken with trump about who cares more that poor people and go ernment workers starve…
I don’t expect him to even remember or notice he’s in a game of chicken. A month CR kicks the can, but the reprieve also keeps the mass starvation and resulting civil unrest at bay.
Schumer and Jefferies’ families won’t starve, they won’t hace to choose between crime or death, they won’t be at protests or picket lines. And they’re desperate to make it look like their leadership is effective just because it’s not the same level of shitshow as republicans.
I really don’t think this will get a long term solution soon, so brief reprieve seems smart.
Otherwise there should have been more communication so FEDs like ATC could have striked on the first non paid day.
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Did you read the comment. It wasn’t pro republican or maga. ??
Just pro-surrender.
