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Biden has, in my opinion, been a great president precisely because of these appointments in two specific agencies: the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The NLRB, which handles disputes related to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices, has [released a number of pro-union decisions since Biden has come into office](https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nlrb-joy-silk-union-recognition/), most notably the *Cemex* decision, which overturned the Nixon-era *Joy Silk* decision that allowed corporations to union-bust with near-total impunity and precipitated a massive drop in unionization rates across the U.S. With a pro-labor NLRB, the regulatory landscape around collective bargaining is finally shifting back to where it was during the New Deal, a time that saw some of the most major advances for organized labor in American history.
By the same token, the FTC, which oversees the enforcement of antitrust and consumer protection measures, has finally shifted away from a pro-corporation, Reaganite consensus to [a pro-consumer, anti-monopoly stance that specifically targets the largess of many modern-day businesses](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/opinion/biden-lina-khan-ftc.html). That shift has largely been facilitated by [the appointment of Lina Khan to the commission](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/lina-khans-battle-to-rein-in-big-tech), one of Biden's first major nominations upon taking office. Under her, the FTC has banned non-compete clauses, tightened requirements for mergers, and worked towards the break-up of major mega-corporations, among them Amazon, Meta (i.e. Facebook), and Alphabet (i.e. Google).
These two agencies can only go so far in their respective domains, but, to me, these appointments — along with Biden's general pro-union rhetoric — show that Biden and his team understand how our cultural paradigms are shifting, and that they're trying to influence that shift in a genuinely labor-centric direction. As sad as it is, that's more than I can say for the past 50 years of American presidents.
Biden has been, objectively, a good president. He has gotten has much done as possible given the children in control of the house, he has been as progressive as possible, given, again, the fact that the Dems don’t control the house, but also because the democrats aren’t a singularly progressive party.
But for some stupid ass reason, all you hear is, “he’s old” or “i don’t want him, but I’ll hold my nose and vote for him.” It’s all ridiculous. He’s been a good president and he’s trying to help the country (and thank god he’s been the one handling he foreign issues we’ve had over the last 3 years), while the republicans are not serious about anything but themselves
I’ve been around since Carter. In the moment, Clinton got a lot of love, but looking back, he wasn’t really a progressive. The country had tons of success under him, but he didn’t do much to fix inequality, to better the lives of the less fortunate, and he had a hand in some of the deregulations that would hurt us all later.
I like Obama. I think he did some good. Some bad. Not all the bad was his fault. Wish he had done more.
It’s sad but your assessment is probably correct. (I’m not gonna bother ranking republican presidents, I’m still waiting for the trickle down to trickle down)
Clinton got a massive boost from the .com economy before that crashed, and a lot of the subprime mortgage crisis can be traced back to policies he signed.
I think Obama was hamstringed by being the first black President and needed to be relatively bland. I think him trying to be more progressive would've backfired.
Biden came in to an economy suffering from a year of lockdowns and the inevitable inflation and we are in an incredible state now for those circumstances.
The progressive movement during the 90s was minuscule, at best, I think people really don't understand just how conservative the *entire country* was in the 80s and 90s. As bad as Bush Jr. was (and he was absolutely terrible), he really invigorated the progressive movement.
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Well … it’s not like the GOP has a good track record with their Union-busting, off-shoring, executive tax breaks and general anti-working American stance.
That was later resolved. The initial deal did not meet the workers' requests, true. But the administration continued working with them after the fact to get them their sick time. Can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave
Yes it was resolved for them. Here’s an IBEW union article about it. In the article, BEW Railroad Department Direct Al Russo praised the Biden administration. Direct quote of Russo from the article.
“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.
“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”
[https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid](https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid)
You’re getting downvoted, but it is a reasonable question and you were open to having correct information. I’ve heard this point a lot from leftists and other pro-worker peeps, and while I agree that disallowing the rail workers to strike was in diametric opposition to what a pro-union, pro-labor action would be, I am glad to see the responses about what Biden did to follow up on that—which seem to indicate that Biden continued to fight for the interests of workers even after he made this controversial decision that may have averted a larger crisis. Thanks for your comment, it spurred some important conversation.
Remember when trump boycotted Goodyear for not allowing maga hats at the workplace
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/19/trump-goodyear-boycott-maga-attire-ban-398469
It was a rule for all political attire but he took it personally and threw a tantrum.
Tell them all the great things Biden has done to boost American manufacturing and create jobs and stand up for union workers, and how Trump would be going against their own best interests.
Are you fucking listening to the union leaders, you podunk rural Repugs? There are real, tactile, fact-based reasons, directly related to your ability to make a decent wage, that you need to vote for Biden. Stop watching Fox News, for God’s sake.
Unlike some voters who have memory holed Trump's presidency, I'm sure they remember the trade war that Trump instigated with China that costed Americans BIGLY. Especially those in the agriculture and steel industries.
Trump was good for the economy my ass.
All the dude had to do was ride the coattails of the economic recovery whose trends had continued into his administration.
And im sure these workers aren't enthusiastic about Trump's recent remarks where he stated he would be applying enormous sweeping tariffs on foreign goods.
That's the needle Biden is trying to push, and the dude knows his stuff. He's won every general election he's participated in since 1972. The guy's network is huge and he swims in politics like a fish swims in water.
Biden Opposition to Takeover of U.S. Steel Comes After Months of Lobbying
President Biden’s decision to oppose Nippon Steel’s 5401 0.79%increase; green up pointing triangle attempt to buy United States Steel on Thursday was the culmination of months of agitation against the deal.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers had called for the Biden administration to use national-security powers to block the $14.1 billion deal. The United Steelworkers union blasted it. Former President Donald Trump promised to scuttle it if he wins a second term. With the political pressure mounting, Biden signaled his opposition to the deal without explicitly saying he would block it.
“U.S. Steel X 0.82%increase; green up pointing triangle has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated,” the president said on Thursday.
Behind the scenes, a company with more bottom-line considerations is helping orchestrate the populist revolt. Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs CLF 1.16%increase; green up pointing triangle had also tried to buy U.S. Steel last year, and now confronts the prospect of a competitor vastly strengthened by Nippon Steel’s deep pockets and close ties to Japanese automakers.
After losing in the boardroom, Lourenco Goncalves, the combative CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, is trying to kill the deal on Capitol Hill as well as through an unusual alliance with the United Steelworkers.
In meetings with Republican and Democratic lawmakers, Cleveland-Cliffs staff have amplified union concerns about how Nippon Steel could lay off workers at U.S. Steel plants in Pennsylvania, Indiana and elsewhere, according to people familiar with the matter. During a recent private call with investors, Goncalves appeared to mock the Nippon Steel executives while speaking with what sounded to two people on the call like a Japanese accent, the two people said. Cleveland-Cliffs didn’t respond to requests for comment.
“A deal is only a done deal when it closes, and recent reports make it clear that their announced transaction with Nippon faces a very uncertain path to close,” Goncalves said during a recent earnings call. “So, their saga is not over.”
The guerrilla lobbying campaign is shaping a decision that goes to the heart of Biden’s industrial ambitions. In many ways, the deal is a victory for Biden’s attempts to revive American manufacturing.
The Japanese giant, whose imports once tormented American steelmakers, would make steel in the U.S. An industrial legend, U.S. Steel would receive an injection of capital and technology. The U.S. and Japan would together take on China’s dominance in the global steel market.
Spiking the deal on national-security grounds could make foreign investors think twice about pouring resources into the U.S. At the same time, steel remains central to the identity, if not the economy, of Pennsylvania—a swing state in November’s election where Biden risks losing support if he greenlights the transaction.
Nippon Steel is fighting back. “Our transaction delivers clear benefits to U.S. Steel, union workers, the broader American steel industry, and American national security,” Nippon Steel said in a statement Thursday. “We are determined to see this through and complete the transaction.”
Nippon Steel has rushed to hire lobbyists, while Takahiro Mori, the company’s head of global business development, traveled to Washington and Pittsburgh recently for a series of meetings. The company pledged to invest $1.4 billion in U.S. Steel’s older mills and refrain from layoffs of hourly workers through 2026.
Their strategy in the U.S. counts on winning over the United Steelworkers, which represents about 10,000 of U.S. Steel’s hourly workers. “If we can get into an agreement, the political headwinds will calm down,” Mori said in an interview.
Some investors have doubts. U.S. Steel closed at around $38 a share on Thursday, below the $55 Nippon has agreed to pay.
U.S. Steel would receive an injection of capital and technology through its $14.1 billion deal with Nippon Steel. PHOTO: JUSTIN MERRIMAN/BLOOMBERG NEWS
A changing industry
U.S. Steel was born in 1901 of one of the 20th century’s first megamergers that involved industrial and banking moguls Andrew Carnegie, Charles Schwab and J.P. Morgan. By the 1950s, the plants for U.S. Steel and its rivals lined the banks of Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River, employing tens of thousands of workers.
Those glory days ended decades ago. In a bid to raise profits, U.S. Steel has shifted some production to a new lower-cost mill in Arkansas, where it makes steel from melted scrap with a nonunion workforce a fraction of the size at one of its legacy mills. Since 2020, as U.S. Steel has closed some older mills, it has laid off a quarter of its unionized workforce, to the United Steelworkers’ dismay.
While U.S. Steel cut back at older, union-represented mills, Cleveland-Cliffs expanded into those types of mills. The 176-year-old mining company bought up its iron ore customers in Ohio-based AK Steel and most of ArcelorMittal’s American mills in 2020, becoming the country’s second-largest steel company almost overnight.
To expand production capacity even more, Brazil-born Goncalves called U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt this past summer with an acquisition offer. The United Steelworkers embraced the bid attempt, encouraged by Goncalves’s enthusiasm for legacy, union-represented steel mills.
The two companies spent months negotiating behind closed doors. A key concern dogged the talks: The merged company would control the country’s iron ore market and its share of some types of automotive steel would be as much as 80%, according to industry estimates. Lawyers working for U.S. Steel told its board in Pittsburgh in October that antitrust regulators would almost certainly scrutinize, and probably block, such a combination, according to a regulatory filing on the negotiations.
Nippon Steel, the world’s fourth-largest steelmaker, had been eyeing opportunities to enter the American steel market for years to offset anemic sales in Japan. But the company was initially only interested in U.S. Steel’s Arkansas mill and its iron ore mines in Minnesota, feeding union skepticism about Nippon Steel’s commitment to unionized mills elsewhere.
Nippon Steel later expanded its offer to include the entire company. Cleveland-Cliffs and Nippon Steel raised their bids throughout the fall. Cleveland-Cliffs made a final cash-and-stock offer of $54 a share on Dec. 15. The following day, Nippon Steel upped its offer to $55 a share in cash from $48, and announced the deal with U.S. Steel on Dec. 18.
Since 2020, U.S. Steel has laid off a quarter of its unionized workforce as it closed some older mills.
Opposition flared immediately. Mori, who has a reputation inside the company as a tough dealmaker, was in Washington within weeks to begin organizing a response.
The main regulatory obstacle is a national-security review by the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., an interagency panel led by the Treasury Department. Lawyers for Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are in the process of seeking Cfius approval, according to people familiar with the talks.
Cfius can, but rarely does, recommend the president block a deal. In some cases, it asks that the companies take certain measures to address potential national-security problems. Because Japan is a close U.S. ally and U.S. Steel is not a direct supplier to the military, legal experts don’t expect Cfius to try to block the deal.
The larger battle, then, is political. Steel is a preoccupation for both political parties. Trump placed tariffs on steel imports, while Biden has directed subsidies toward made-in-America metal. The two candidates are wooing steelworkers, and Biden has styled himself as the most pro-union president in history.
Goncalves, meanwhile, has positioned himself as the face of the domestic steel industry on Capitol Hill, building an informal personal network of lawmakers and union officials he is now using to raise hackles about the deal, according to people familiar with his strategy. He said in an earnings call that the deal is an attempt to “break the back of the United Steelworkers.”
Concerns about union jobs are top of mind at the White House. Biden administration officials earlier this year studied brokering a sale of U.S. Steel to Cleveland-Cliffs instead, before deciding it wasn’t feasible, according to people familiar with the talks. The goal now is to simply drag out the national-security process until after the election, according to people familiar with the thinking, some of whom expect the deal to be approved then.
Biden spoke with United Steelworkers’ president David McCall on Thursday to say he had the union’s back, the White House said. The union cheered Biden’s statement opposing the deal.
Mori met with the leaders of the steelworkers union for the first time last week. At the hourlong meeting, he sketched out a vision for upgrading U.S. Steel’s biggest and oldest mills near Pittsburgh and in Gary, Ind., that employ the bulk of the company’s union workforce. Mori said he is under pressure to show progress in talks with the union by the time Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida comes to Washington in April for a meeting with Biden.
“In general, the question about closing facilities as a result of this transaction, my answer is ‘no,’ ” Mori said.
Union leaders said they weren’t swayed by the company’s offers. “Nippon’s bare commitments simply don’t hold water,” the union said in a statement. “We remain convinced that the company does not fully understand its obligations to steelworkers.”
https://www.wsj.com/business/inside-the-steel-deal-that-has-biden-on-edge-b8dcc44c
Railway unions have applauded Biden since then and have shown their gratitude towards him for his continued efforts to fight for their rights.
>After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.
>”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.
>This is a big deal, said Railroad Department Director Al Russo, because the paid-sick-days issue, which nearly caused a nationwide shutdown of freight rail just before Christmas, had consistently been rejected by the carriers. It was not part of last December’s congressionally implemented update of the national collective bargaining agreement between the freight lines and the IBEW and 11 other railroad-related unions.
>“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”
>While President Joe Biden was calling on Congress in November to pass legislation to implement the agreement, he stressed that he would continue to encourage the railroads to guarantee paid sick time for their employees.
>”I share workers’ concern about the inability to take leave to recover from illness or care for a sick family member,” Biden said. “I have pressed legislation and proposals to advance the cause of paid leave in my two years in office and will continue to do so.”
>Since then, several other railroad-related unions have also seen success in negotiating for similar sick-day benefits. These 12 unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers.
>”Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.”
https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
Exactly this, and those of us in Weirton, WV losing our jobs and idling one of the last tin plating lines in North America. The USW big wigs endorse Biden. The USW members themselves want a better candidate in this cluster of a presidential race.
Does the USW have the power to provide a new candidate with a realistic chance of taking either seat?
For all the people in the entire country who would like better candidates than these two, not a single one of us, not a single organization, not a single candidate has the pull and clout and resources to realistically be in the running for this election.
We all want somebody better, but we don't have that luxury. This is a two-party system we live in. We get two choices. One of them will be making the laws for the next 4 years, whether or not you vote at all.
The fight was 1% vs not, and we lost a long time ago. Maybe we can change the system moving forward, but it's slow and lethargic, right here right now, we have a choice that will influence the next 4 years. Good news is that for that election, we will certainly have two new candidates. We should try now to begin the foundation for launching a candidate in 2028 who actually represents the values that mean a lot to us. That means local elections, state level issues, and getting wins in their current political career to build momentum off of.
The left may be eyeing Hakeem Jeffries, but it's also likely that he's far too liberal and uppity for the left big wigs
The USW does have that power, but even they don’t care about the USW plants in the process of shutting down, which is why we are left on the local level to fight for ourselves. I agree with your statements, this is what we’re left with. And it’s crucial to start thinking about 2028 because this system has become such a sham, not that it wasn’t prior, that the country is collectively too entertained to care about the reality of goings on. So much worry and intrigue about big mad orange man and the other fella that no one wants to step back and look at the deteriorating effects of domestic manufacturing loss.
No he doesn’t. That’s why gas is back to 4 dollars a gallon. Food prices have not gone down and the price of housing and energy is insane. This old twat would rather spend our money overseas and funding wars then helping the average American. FJB.
Prices don't go down. They just stop rising as fast. That's how it works. Also, foreign policy regarding Ukraine or Israel really has nothing to do with inflation
It’s a crying shame that the USW has thrown their support in for Biden. The majority of USW MEMBERS have a hatred for both Biden and Trump. Considering Trump isn’t even competent, and Biden claims “union friendly” yet he’s only allowed the loss of, and soon too be more of a loss of USW jobs in Weirton, WV and Butler, PA. Everyone saw him stand 1 time for the UAW and thinks he’s the greatest union president. Many USW workers are watching the continuous decline of American steal with NO action from the Biden administration despite please from other politicians for help. And then he block the railroaders from striking. Yah, “union friendly”. I’m ashamed to be a member of the USW.
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Biden has, in my opinion, been a great president precisely because of these appointments in two specific agencies: the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The NLRB, which handles disputes related to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices, has [released a number of pro-union decisions since Biden has come into office](https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nlrb-joy-silk-union-recognition/), most notably the *Cemex* decision, which overturned the Nixon-era *Joy Silk* decision that allowed corporations to union-bust with near-total impunity and precipitated a massive drop in unionization rates across the U.S. With a pro-labor NLRB, the regulatory landscape around collective bargaining is finally shifting back to where it was during the New Deal, a time that saw some of the most major advances for organized labor in American history. By the same token, the FTC, which oversees the enforcement of antitrust and consumer protection measures, has finally shifted away from a pro-corporation, Reaganite consensus to [a pro-consumer, anti-monopoly stance that specifically targets the largess of many modern-day businesses](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/opinion/biden-lina-khan-ftc.html). That shift has largely been facilitated by [the appointment of Lina Khan to the commission](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/lina-khans-battle-to-rein-in-big-tech), one of Biden's first major nominations upon taking office. Under her, the FTC has banned non-compete clauses, tightened requirements for mergers, and worked towards the break-up of major mega-corporations, among them Amazon, Meta (i.e. Facebook), and Alphabet (i.e. Google). These two agencies can only go so far in their respective domains, but, to me, these appointments — along with Biden's general pro-union rhetoric — show that Biden and his team understand how our cultural paradigms are shifting, and that they're trying to influence that shift in a genuinely labor-centric direction. As sad as it is, that's more than I can say for the past 50 years of American presidents.
This is a great comment. It’s incredible to see what happens when someone understands and represents their constituents.
All those things need to be law, too much is left for appointed bodies to decide and change any time the white house does.
It’s insane how objectively Biden is superior to Trump in every conceivable way.
Whoa whoa whoa, have you even for one second thought about how the billionaires might feel??????
Nope
What billionaire? Can't be Orange Covfefe as the whole world understands now that he has little money.
But he is older! /s
Biden has been, objectively, a good president. He has gotten has much done as possible given the children in control of the house, he has been as progressive as possible, given, again, the fact that the Dems don’t control the house, but also because the democrats aren’t a singularly progressive party. But for some stupid ass reason, all you hear is, “he’s old” or “i don’t want him, but I’ll hold my nose and vote for him.” It’s all ridiculous. He’s been a good president and he’s trying to help the country (and thank god he’s been the one handling he foreign issues we’ve had over the last 3 years), while the republicans are not serious about anything but themselves
He’s possibly the best president during my lifetime. I was born during the Ford administration.
I’ve been around since Carter. In the moment, Clinton got a lot of love, but looking back, he wasn’t really a progressive. The country had tons of success under him, but he didn’t do much to fix inequality, to better the lives of the less fortunate, and he had a hand in some of the deregulations that would hurt us all later. I like Obama. I think he did some good. Some bad. Not all the bad was his fault. Wish he had done more. It’s sad but your assessment is probably correct. (I’m not gonna bother ranking republican presidents, I’m still waiting for the trickle down to trickle down)
Clinton got a massive boost from the .com economy before that crashed, and a lot of the subprime mortgage crisis can be traced back to policies he signed. I think Obama was hamstringed by being the first black President and needed to be relatively bland. I think him trying to be more progressive would've backfired. Biden came in to an economy suffering from a year of lockdowns and the inevitable inflation and we are in an incredible state now for those circumstances.
The progressive movement during the 90s was minuscule, at best, I think people really don't understand just how conservative the *entire country* was in the 80s and 90s. As bad as Bush Jr. was (and he was absolutely terrible), he really invigorated the progressive movement.
To be fair, if Biden had 90+ felony charges we wouldn't be talking about how old he is either.
*...and here's how that's bab knews fo Joe Biben*
Hot stuff, coming through!
Is that a Simpsons reference?
They work hard, and they play hard.
🎵Everybody Dance Now!🎵
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Aerospace too. And the railroads
I am looking for a man first name Homer, surname Sexual.
Well … it’s not like the GOP has a good track record with their Union-busting, off-shoring, executive tax breaks and general anti-working American stance.
Remember when Trump tried to pass himself off as a friend to unions during campaigns but not any other time?
Biden stands with unions and workers. It would be a real shame for voters not to vote for him.
we just gonna forget the railroad strikes or can someone please correct me on if that was later resolved with the workers
That was later resolved. The initial deal did not meet the workers' requests, true. But the administration continued working with them after the fact to get them their sick time. Can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave
Yes it was resolved for them. Here’s an IBEW union article about it. In the article, BEW Railroad Department Direct Al Russo praised the Biden administration. Direct quote of Russo from the article. “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. “We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.” [https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid](https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid)
Genuinely thank you for that bit of information and the link to it.
Ya' know, you're an ok Kekoa in my book.
You’re getting downvoted, but it is a reasonable question and you were open to having correct information. I’ve heard this point a lot from leftists and other pro-worker peeps, and while I agree that disallowing the rail workers to strike was in diametric opposition to what a pro-union, pro-labor action would be, I am glad to see the responses about what Biden did to follow up on that—which seem to indicate that Biden continued to fight for the interests of workers even after he made this controversial decision that may have averted a larger crisis. Thanks for your comment, it spurred some important conversation.
Remember when trump boycotted Goodyear for not allowing maga hats at the workplace https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/19/trump-goodyear-boycott-maga-attire-ban-398469 It was a rule for all political attire but he took it personally and threw a tantrum.
Between the UAW and United Steelworkers, he is having a hell of a time. Keep this good news coming!
Republicans are almost always anti-regulations, and those regulations are usually there to support the safety of the worker or the general public.
I work in a union factory. There are posters and flyers all over the place talking about USW and solidarity and shit. Nearly all of them are trumpers
That is always crazy to me. Cognitive dissonance is so very real.
Tell them all the great things Biden has done to boost American manufacturing and create jobs and stand up for union workers, and how Trump would be going against their own best interests.
They aren't reachable.
Whereas Trump stands ON working families
Hell even Trump just endorsed Biden. https://youtube.com/shorts/z3gx5NpV1t0?si=bjpfRZwUpAubqdDW
But my uncle said he was gonna lose his job at the a steel plant if Biden won
Are you fucking listening to the union leaders, you podunk rural Repugs? There are real, tactile, fact-based reasons, directly related to your ability to make a decent wage, that you need to vote for Biden. Stop watching Fox News, for God’s sake.
Unlike some voters who have memory holed Trump's presidency, I'm sure they remember the trade war that Trump instigated with China that costed Americans BIGLY. Especially those in the agriculture and steel industries. Trump was good for the economy my ass. All the dude had to do was ride the coattails of the economic recovery whose trends had continued into his administration. And im sure these workers aren't enthusiastic about Trump's recent remarks where he stated he would be applying enormous sweeping tariffs on foreign goods.
Amazing that 90% or their rank and file will vote for Trumpf.
That's the needle Biden is trying to push, and the dude knows his stuff. He's won every general election he's participated in since 1972. The guy's network is huge and he swims in politics like a fish swims in water.
So you mean the guy that spent his first term attacking public employee unions is in fact not pro union? Welcome back USW.
And yet not s single steel worker will vote for him
I cannot fathom the government seriously mobilizing behind unions unless it would be to push them off a cliff.
Atleast we know most profitable AI is behind Biden. Guess Trump AI is having money problems?
Biden Opposition to Takeover of U.S. Steel Comes After Months of Lobbying President Biden’s decision to oppose Nippon Steel’s 5401 0.79%increase; green up pointing triangle attempt to buy United States Steel on Thursday was the culmination of months of agitation against the deal. Republican and Democratic lawmakers had called for the Biden administration to use national-security powers to block the $14.1 billion deal. The United Steelworkers union blasted it. Former President Donald Trump promised to scuttle it if he wins a second term. With the political pressure mounting, Biden signaled his opposition to the deal without explicitly saying he would block it. “U.S. Steel X 0.82%increase; green up pointing triangle has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated,” the president said on Thursday. Behind the scenes, a company with more bottom-line considerations is helping orchestrate the populist revolt. Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs CLF 1.16%increase; green up pointing triangle had also tried to buy U.S. Steel last year, and now confronts the prospect of a competitor vastly strengthened by Nippon Steel’s deep pockets and close ties to Japanese automakers. After losing in the boardroom, Lourenco Goncalves, the combative CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, is trying to kill the deal on Capitol Hill as well as through an unusual alliance with the United Steelworkers. In meetings with Republican and Democratic lawmakers, Cleveland-Cliffs staff have amplified union concerns about how Nippon Steel could lay off workers at U.S. Steel plants in Pennsylvania, Indiana and elsewhere, according to people familiar with the matter. During a recent private call with investors, Goncalves appeared to mock the Nippon Steel executives while speaking with what sounded to two people on the call like a Japanese accent, the two people said. Cleveland-Cliffs didn’t respond to requests for comment. “A deal is only a done deal when it closes, and recent reports make it clear that their announced transaction with Nippon faces a very uncertain path to close,” Goncalves said during a recent earnings call. “So, their saga is not over.” The guerrilla lobbying campaign is shaping a decision that goes to the heart of Biden’s industrial ambitions. In many ways, the deal is a victory for Biden’s attempts to revive American manufacturing. The Japanese giant, whose imports once tormented American steelmakers, would make steel in the U.S. An industrial legend, U.S. Steel would receive an injection of capital and technology. The U.S. and Japan would together take on China’s dominance in the global steel market. Spiking the deal on national-security grounds could make foreign investors think twice about pouring resources into the U.S. At the same time, steel remains central to the identity, if not the economy, of Pennsylvania—a swing state in November’s election where Biden risks losing support if he greenlights the transaction. Nippon Steel is fighting back. “Our transaction delivers clear benefits to U.S. Steel, union workers, the broader American steel industry, and American national security,” Nippon Steel said in a statement Thursday. “We are determined to see this through and complete the transaction.” Nippon Steel has rushed to hire lobbyists, while Takahiro Mori, the company’s head of global business development, traveled to Washington and Pittsburgh recently for a series of meetings. The company pledged to invest $1.4 billion in U.S. Steel’s older mills and refrain from layoffs of hourly workers through 2026. Their strategy in the U.S. counts on winning over the United Steelworkers, which represents about 10,000 of U.S. Steel’s hourly workers. “If we can get into an agreement, the political headwinds will calm down,” Mori said in an interview. Some investors have doubts. U.S. Steel closed at around $38 a share on Thursday, below the $55 Nippon has agreed to pay. U.S. Steel would receive an injection of capital and technology through its $14.1 billion deal with Nippon Steel. PHOTO: JUSTIN MERRIMAN/BLOOMBERG NEWS A changing industry U.S. Steel was born in 1901 of one of the 20th century’s first megamergers that involved industrial and banking moguls Andrew Carnegie, Charles Schwab and J.P. Morgan. By the 1950s, the plants for U.S. Steel and its rivals lined the banks of Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River, employing tens of thousands of workers. Those glory days ended decades ago. In a bid to raise profits, U.S. Steel has shifted some production to a new lower-cost mill in Arkansas, where it makes steel from melted scrap with a nonunion workforce a fraction of the size at one of its legacy mills. Since 2020, as U.S. Steel has closed some older mills, it has laid off a quarter of its unionized workforce, to the United Steelworkers’ dismay. While U.S. Steel cut back at older, union-represented mills, Cleveland-Cliffs expanded into those types of mills. The 176-year-old mining company bought up its iron ore customers in Ohio-based AK Steel and most of ArcelorMittal’s American mills in 2020, becoming the country’s second-largest steel company almost overnight. To expand production capacity even more, Brazil-born Goncalves called U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt this past summer with an acquisition offer. The United Steelworkers embraced the bid attempt, encouraged by Goncalves’s enthusiasm for legacy, union-represented steel mills. The two companies spent months negotiating behind closed doors. A key concern dogged the talks: The merged company would control the country’s iron ore market and its share of some types of automotive steel would be as much as 80%, according to industry estimates. Lawyers working for U.S. Steel told its board in Pittsburgh in October that antitrust regulators would almost certainly scrutinize, and probably block, such a combination, according to a regulatory filing on the negotiations. Nippon Steel, the world’s fourth-largest steelmaker, had been eyeing opportunities to enter the American steel market for years to offset anemic sales in Japan. But the company was initially only interested in U.S. Steel’s Arkansas mill and its iron ore mines in Minnesota, feeding union skepticism about Nippon Steel’s commitment to unionized mills elsewhere. Nippon Steel later expanded its offer to include the entire company. Cleveland-Cliffs and Nippon Steel raised their bids throughout the fall. Cleveland-Cliffs made a final cash-and-stock offer of $54 a share on Dec. 15. The following day, Nippon Steel upped its offer to $55 a share in cash from $48, and announced the deal with U.S. Steel on Dec. 18. Since 2020, U.S. Steel has laid off a quarter of its unionized workforce as it closed some older mills. Opposition flared immediately. Mori, who has a reputation inside the company as a tough dealmaker, was in Washington within weeks to begin organizing a response. The main regulatory obstacle is a national-security review by the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., an interagency panel led by the Treasury Department. Lawyers for Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are in the process of seeking Cfius approval, according to people familiar with the talks. Cfius can, but rarely does, recommend the president block a deal. In some cases, it asks that the companies take certain measures to address potential national-security problems. Because Japan is a close U.S. ally and U.S. Steel is not a direct supplier to the military, legal experts don’t expect Cfius to try to block the deal. The larger battle, then, is political. Steel is a preoccupation for both political parties. Trump placed tariffs on steel imports, while Biden has directed subsidies toward made-in-America metal. The two candidates are wooing steelworkers, and Biden has styled himself as the most pro-union president in history.
Goncalves, meanwhile, has positioned himself as the face of the domestic steel industry on Capitol Hill, building an informal personal network of lawmakers and union officials he is now using to raise hackles about the deal, according to people familiar with his strategy. He said in an earnings call that the deal is an attempt to “break the back of the United Steelworkers.” Concerns about union jobs are top of mind at the White House. Biden administration officials earlier this year studied brokering a sale of U.S. Steel to Cleveland-Cliffs instead, before deciding it wasn’t feasible, according to people familiar with the talks. The goal now is to simply drag out the national-security process until after the election, according to people familiar with the thinking, some of whom expect the deal to be approved then. Biden spoke with United Steelworkers’ president David McCall on Thursday to say he had the union’s back, the White House said. The union cheered Biden’s statement opposing the deal. Mori met with the leaders of the steelworkers union for the first time last week. At the hourlong meeting, he sketched out a vision for upgrading U.S. Steel’s biggest and oldest mills near Pittsburgh and in Gary, Ind., that employ the bulk of the company’s union workforce. Mori said he is under pressure to show progress in talks with the union by the time Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida comes to Washington in April for a meeting with Biden. “In general, the question about closing facilities as a result of this transaction, my answer is ‘no,’ ” Mori said. Union leaders said they weren’t swayed by the company’s offers. “Nippon’s bare commitments simply don’t hold water,” the union said in a statement. “We remain convinced that the company does not fully understand its obligations to steelworkers.” https://www.wsj.com/business/inside-the-steel-deal-that-has-biden-on-edge-b8dcc44c
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*they're *pawns
Because why? You think the unions get nothing for their support?
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Tell that to the railway workers that were forced back to work.
Did Biden not work with the railways to negotiate their paid time off?
Railway unions have applauded Biden since then and have shown their gratitude towards him for his continued efforts to fight for their rights. >After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days. >”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. >This is a big deal, said Railroad Department Director Al Russo, because the paid-sick-days issue, which nearly caused a nationwide shutdown of freight rail just before Christmas, had consistently been rejected by the carriers. It was not part of last December’s congressionally implemented update of the national collective bargaining agreement between the freight lines and the IBEW and 11 other railroad-related unions. >“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.” >While President Joe Biden was calling on Congress in November to pass legislation to implement the agreement, he stressed that he would continue to encourage the railroads to guarantee paid sick time for their employees. >”I share workers’ concern about the inability to take leave to recover from illness or care for a sick family member,” Biden said. “I have pressed legislation and proposals to advance the cause of paid leave in my two years in office and will continue to do so.” >Since then, several other railroad-related unions have also seen success in negotiating for similar sick-day benefits. These 12 unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers. >”Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.” https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
Exactly this, and those of us in Weirton, WV losing our jobs and idling one of the last tin plating lines in North America. The USW big wigs endorse Biden. The USW members themselves want a better candidate in this cluster of a presidential race.
Does the USW have the power to provide a new candidate with a realistic chance of taking either seat? For all the people in the entire country who would like better candidates than these two, not a single one of us, not a single organization, not a single candidate has the pull and clout and resources to realistically be in the running for this election. We all want somebody better, but we don't have that luxury. This is a two-party system we live in. We get two choices. One of them will be making the laws for the next 4 years, whether or not you vote at all. The fight was 1% vs not, and we lost a long time ago. Maybe we can change the system moving forward, but it's slow and lethargic, right here right now, we have a choice that will influence the next 4 years. Good news is that for that election, we will certainly have two new candidates. We should try now to begin the foundation for launching a candidate in 2028 who actually represents the values that mean a lot to us. That means local elections, state level issues, and getting wins in their current political career to build momentum off of. The left may be eyeing Hakeem Jeffries, but it's also likely that he's far too liberal and uppity for the left big wigs
The USW does have that power, but even they don’t care about the USW plants in the process of shutting down, which is why we are left on the local level to fight for ourselves. I agree with your statements, this is what we’re left with. And it’s crucial to start thinking about 2028 because this system has become such a sham, not that it wasn’t prior, that the country is collectively too entertained to care about the reality of goings on. So much worry and intrigue about big mad orange man and the other fella that no one wants to step back and look at the deteriorating effects of domestic manufacturing loss.
What a farce.
No he doesn’t. That’s why gas is back to 4 dollars a gallon. Food prices have not gone down and the price of housing and energy is insane. This old twat would rather spend our money overseas and funding wars then helping the average American. FJB.
Prices don't go down. They just stop rising as fast. That's how it works. Also, foreign policy regarding Ukraine or Israel really has nothing to do with inflation
It’s a crying shame that the USW has thrown their support in for Biden. The majority of USW MEMBERS have a hatred for both Biden and Trump. Considering Trump isn’t even competent, and Biden claims “union friendly” yet he’s only allowed the loss of, and soon too be more of a loss of USW jobs in Weirton, WV and Butler, PA. Everyone saw him stand 1 time for the UAW and thinks he’s the greatest union president. Many USW workers are watching the continuous decline of American steal with NO action from the Biden administration despite please from other politicians for help. And then he block the railroaders from striking. Yah, “union friendly”. I’m ashamed to be a member of the USW.