The largest federal workers' union backed a Republican government funding bill.

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.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    35·
    2 days ago

    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

    • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
      42·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          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

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
    36·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    2 days ago

    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.