The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an “authentic champion” for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.
The farm workers’ union was co-founded by Cesar Chavez, the late grandfather of Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who Biden named as his 2024 campaign manager. Her father, Arturo Rodriquez, is a past UFW president.
Julie Rodriguez and “special guests” were expected to formally announce the endorsement later Tuesday at Muranaka Farms in the city of Moorpark in southern California.
What do you know, you support unions and unions support you.
The UAW visit by Biden is one of the rare trifecta of savvy political maneuvering+the right thing to do + good for the nation as a whole.
Right thing to do and political motivation aside the “good for the nation as a whole” cannot possibly be understated. We NEED less outsourcing and dependencies on foreign entities. The CHIPS act was a great step and I hope Intel continues with their commitments. We need to ensure similar things happen in the automotive space and beyond.
And yet so many people who would actually benefit from the collective bargaining power will tell that you unions are bad. Wild how people have been convinced to vote against their own self interests.
See: Reagan Democrat
Too bad Biden only supports unions when it’s convenient to him i.e. train workers.
He spent the following weeks negotiating with the rail companies behind the scenes, and eventually got the workers the things they’d demanded initially, including the paid leave.
Where can I find a list of the things he got the rail workers? I tried looking it up but everything is various degrees of outdated.
7 paid sick days is not found anywhere in the linked article. CSX actually gave them 4 paid sick days.
The agreement provides four days of paid sick leave each year at full pay. It also allows members to use up to three personal leave days for sick leave, the two unions said.
Being able to use your vacation for sick days isn’t being given sick days.
Go actually research what happened and what Biden actually did not what the propaganda claims.
I mean, back at ya? The IBEW praise posts are basically propaganda. They’re a tiny fraction of the rail workers and weren’t one of the unions that wanted to strike. They voted to approve the contract with 1 day of leave that was later forced on everyone.
Now go back and actually look at it. Praise posts are not relevant. Look at the actual issues and what was actually done, not what some slanted propaganda wishes you to think about it, just the details.
Ok. The unions wanted 15 days of sick leave, they would have been happy with the 7 most Democrats tried to give them, and Biden got them 4.
And all that ignores that the fundamental issue is that no third party negotiations can substitute for workers being able to choose whether or not to accept a contract and strike if they don’t. They could have been given all 15 days (not their only ask) and it would still wouldn’t make up for removing their right to refuse a contract and strike. The point of organized labor is having the power to be able to organize and deny your labor so that you can force your boss to give you what you want. They both didn’t get what they want and are in a much worse position should they demand more in the future.
“Most unionized US rail workers now have new sick leave” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-unionized-us-rail-workers-now-have-new-sick-leave-2023-06-05/
What else ya’ got?
You ignored most of his comment.
What do you think that has to do with this conversation thread?
is Biden showing the Democrats how to be the party of Labor again? can it be THIS EASY?!
Inb4 someone explains how this proves Biden is bad somehow
It can be a brilliant PR move and positive at the same time!
Id rather see him championing a massive hike of the minimum wage to help everyone and not just specific labor groups, but I’m not saying this is bad.
You win battles where you can. Union wages puts pressure on non-union companies to raise wages and tends to attract the best workers. The greedy rich hate unions and manipulate their workers. Divided you beg. United you bargain.
Are there many battles being won here?
Minimum wage was in Biden’s proposals but got defeated in the senate. Remember Sinema giving her stupid thumbs down? He can’t raise the minimum wage by fiat. He did raise the minimum wage for all federal workers, which is something he can directly control. If you want a federal minimum wage increase you need democrats in control of congress, and you more conservative and corpo democrats like Sinema primaried out for actual progressives.
Spreading union sentiment will help workers across many different fields in ways beyond just pay scale, and strong support of unions will encourage more and more workers to unionize so they can reap the benefits. Beyond just encouraging more people to form unions, unions help even un-unionized workers, as now other companies need to offer similar benefits and pay to what unionized workers get to remain competitive in hiring.
Remember Sinema giving her stupid thumbs down?
Yup. She sure let us know what Democrats are all about when she did that. When do you think Democrats will try to raise the minimum wage again?
If they get control of the house and retain the senate next election, as well as Biden winning again. Unfortunately Republicans are dead set against any minimum wage increas so not gonna be possible without a Democrat trifecta most likely.
At least Sinema kicked herself out of the democratic party so they didn’t have to bother primarying her out. Hopefully someone more progressive will be able to replace her now.
At least Sinema kicked herself out of the democratic party so they didn’t have to bother primarying her out.
If she had stayed in the party, the party would not primary her. The party protects incumbents from primary challengers.
The party doesn’t primary her, another candidate does, and then we all vote on it. I’m not disagreeing with you here, and of course a party generally protects incumbents, they’re easier to get re elected. Doesn’t mean people still can’t vote against them in the primary anyways and defeat a party admin preferred incumbent. I would also argue that Sinema leaving was an admission even the party admin was going to say, no fuck you. But again it’s the primary election that decides, so go support progressives in the primary so you have a good candidate to vote for in the general.
I’m not disagreeing with you here, and of course a party generally protects incumbents, they’re easier to get re elected.
The party supported an anti-choice candidate over a progressive and used incumbency as an excuse. If they have no standards at all beyond “support incumbent” then that’s what I will continue expecting them to do.
Doesn’t mean people still can’t vote against them in the primary anyways and defeat a party admin preferred incumbent.
The deck is already stacked against the challenger because incumbents have advantage. The party doesn’t need to weigh in, but challengers tend to be progressive.
But again it’s the primary election that decides, so go support progressives in the primary
Did you laugh like an atheist in a Jack Chick tract after typing that?
Most auto workers already make more than minimum wage, so that wouldn’t help them particularly.
And? He’s the president for all of the people.
Yeah but humans can divide their time and attention only so much. And since he’s president of everybody, he’s the auto workers’ president too.
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I mean not necessarily, rising tide and all that, a living standard minimum wage gives non minimum wage workers much more power to buck bullshit from the owner class.
Why put up with being an overworked underappreciated office worker when flipping burgers could pay your bills just as easily?
And so here you are hauling water for the Republican Party. Seems counter productive to me.
Gotta admit this was one hell of a PR stunt! Impressive it actually worked. Considering democrats as a whole are center right on an international scale it couln’t have been easy to convince working class folks they actually give a damn.
But PR stunt aside, it still is one hell of a positive message in this incredibly fucked political landscape. Kudos to Biden.
Gotta push that Overton window to the left a bit, slowly but surely.
All of politics is PR. But you have to consider our US politics not on a global scale, but on a local one. These unions aren’t going to say “you’re not far left enough for us to support.” Just like pretty much everyone else who votes non-Republican, they’re going to vote for whoever matches their ideology the closest, even if it’s not as close as we’d like it to be.
It totally took me by surprise to see him out there picketing with the workers.
I won’t hold my breath but if he starts pushing for some of the policy decisions he claims to stand by I am an independent progressive and I don’t have anything personal against Biden. But I don’t like neoliberals. I need more than words to support Biden at this point… and trump? What the actual fuck who is this asshat? Would never even consider voting for him under any conditions, ever.
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He’s an old white dude, but generally he has done a good job through his first term. I don’t love him and wish he’d not run again, but he’s far from the worst choice
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an “authentic champion” for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.
Julie Rodriguez and “special guests” were expected to formally announce the endorsement later Tuesday at Muranaka Farms in the city of Moorpark in southern California.
The UFW endorsement came as Biden on Tuesday flew to the Detroit area to join a picket line with United Auto Workers members who are on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.
The farm workers’ union endorsed Biden in 2020 over Republican President Donald Trump, who leads the field of GOP candidates vying for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination and the chance to challenge Biden.
Julie Rodriguez said in a written statement that the UFW’s organizing has always been about fighting injustice and supporting working people, values that she said are at stake in the election.
She was a top White House adviser to Biden before he named her as campaign manager earlier this year.
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Reminder: Slick Joe fucked the rail workers.
No he didn’t. The strikers got what they wanted afterwards
He pushed for and signed a bill taking away their right to strike.
Don’t be a shill for him.
It’s like the only thing I can’t get past. Am I right in understanding it’s also what caused Lebanon or is that propaganda?
No, that train derailment is just the normal lousy state of our infrastructure.
Is this the same farmers’ union that Louis Rossmann said was sus?
I need to see Biden passing 15$ mjnimum wage before I vote for him. Or universal health care lol. Or anything close to what fdr would have gotten according to the news I guess I dunno
This “take” is what’s wrong with American politics. If Biden can’t push either of those through an opposition House that would never do anything he wants, you will actively enable the other side, who would undo all of the good done, to win?
“I will not help us achieve progress until we can achieve more progress”.
Let’s see what Biden delivers on…. Which isn’t much so far….
Him showing up on the picket line is a good start, but it’s also just a political stunt.
Let’s see him fight for some of the progressive policies he claims to care about.
Calling Manchen my good friend is not fighting for your agenda.
Leftists: “The beatings will continue until morale improves”
Leftists: “Hey we’re not perfect but at least we’re not trampling people’s rights.”
That’s liberals.
Leftists believe they are perfect.
What leads you to that conclusion?
Your take is actually what’s wrong. I’m not voting for the other guy just because I’m not voting for Biden
What’s wrong with our politics is the fucking corporate boot lickers like you who watch politicians like Biden and most others receive legalized bribes and yet you continue to suck his dick.
get that old man cock out of your mouth it’s not a good look
Biden has literally gotten nothing done. But you treat him like FDR
Quit smoking crack
For those curious about political/propaganda meta-conversations in threads like this, look at this dude’s comment history and contemplate why they say what they do, and at what points in a conversation they decide to open their mouths and say it, and what the probable intended result of what they’re saying might be.
Treat it like an English assignment, folks. Except it’s in the wild and not sanitized in a book, it’s trying to work on you in real-time.
What do you think this person’s purpose for speaking up is?
You’re the one spewing corporate media talking points. You trying to say I am proganda is laughable nonsense
100% voting for the other guy if you don’t Vote for the sane option of the only two offered.
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I need to see Biden passing 15$ mjnimum wage
Biden cannot pass anything. Only congress can. Obviously if such a thing passed congress Biden would gladly sign it. But since the GOP controls congress, it cannot happen until Dems win it back. That’s basic politics.
That’s basic politics.
Zoomers: [head explodes]
Can’t blame kids for being kids
Biden could fight …… for anything.
They gave up on their “signature issue” of 15$ the fucking first month in office.
Biden has the bully pulpit free media attention whenever he wants it. He can fight for his agenda.
But he has no spine and does not fight for anything that his corporate overlords do not approve of.
Dude is basically Regan after Alzheimer’s
Biden could fight …… for anything.
He literally just joined the UAW on the picket line. There is no point in fighting for a $15 minimum wage if congress will never go for it. And they won’t with its current makeup. It’s a non-started. He’s not stupid and he’s not going to waste his time on fighting for things that won’t happen.
Anyway, people shouldn’t be fighting for any minimum wage. They should be fighting for a UBI.
Poor helpless Biden has no power to persuade anyone
He did an amazing job when Dems had a 1/2 vote margin in the senate. But as long as the GOP controls congress, raising the minimum age is literally an impossibility.
Fdr fought for social security and Medicare and workers rights…… he called out senators who disagreed with him by name.
He did not call folks who shut down his policy proposals “my good friends”
If amazing job means calling senators who voted against your policy platform “my dear friends”, then okay I guess…… he did an amazing job at capitulating without putting up an ounce of fight. He didn’t call out anyone.
He didn’t actually want the policies he claimed to stand for. He lied to us. He is a corporate neoliberal. He wouldn’t be a democrat if the republicans weren’t actually racist fascist sons of removed. But they all take legal bribes….
GQP talking points numbers one, two, and three.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a more blatant example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I hope you enjoy the increase you’ll get under the Fascists.
Corporate oligarchy or facism…… if those are the only two options, I no longer give a fuck and my ballot will be blank under the options for president. I vote every year but I don’t vote for neoliberals or asshats.
if those are the only two options, I no longer give a fuck and my ballot will be blank under the options for president. I vote every year but I don’t vote for neoliberals or asshats.
Then your opinion also doesn’t matter. Also both options are not anywhere near the same to any sane person.
You don’t see how fascism would be significantly worse for certain groups of people? LGBTQ, Jews, people of color, etc?
shhh the white straight “leftists” are explaining to us ungratefuls how it’s not bigoted for them to hinge their helping to secure our rights on meeting their increasingly niche demands.
These folks never seem to have figured out that collective bargaining is meant to be a “punching up” move. Or that “working class solidarity” is a lot easier to achieve when the entire working class has a common experience to rally solidarity around as opposed to a lot of them wishing they only had working class experience problems to stress over.
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I hope you purity is of comfort while they round People up.
I mean whatever he does it’ll be better than Trump or whoever republicans are gonna nominate.
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I’m done voting for the better of two evils. I will not vote for politicians who do not support policy I care about. And right now Biden was right. Nothing has fundamentally changed. His corporate donors approve, but that’s not how you get my vote. And I know I’m not alone.
Lol. You think that’s how it works??
And that’s why you will never get those.
He can’t do any of that unless the Dems take back the house and have 60 seats in the Senate.
And it’s almost certain that the Dems will actually lose the Senate this cycle. This is the 2018 “Blue Wave” crop up for reelection.
Even if the Dems win 2/3 seats this cycle, the Republicans will retake the Senate.
