• enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    I understand people are suffering because there are always enough votes against workers.

    This is true. But is this where your understand of the American political system begins and ends?

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      This is true.

      Glad to see someone admit that Republicans and Democrats work together to screw people who work for a living.

      But is this where your understand of the American political system begins and ends?

      No, just glad to see someone finally fucking admit that Democrats have no intention whatsoever of helping workers, regardless of the lies they tell to get elected.

      • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        just glad to see someone finally fucking admit that Democrats have no intention whatsoever of helping workers

        Your statement is patently and frankly egregiously false. I’m going to list a few things here, but I’m not going to engage with you further. You seem to want to just lazily stamp your feet and just be mad for reasons.

        1. Biden increased the minimum wage for federal workers to $15 / hr in part to lock it in while he could and to set the precedent. This affected 67,000 federal employees.
        2. American Rescue Plan Act: Estimated to have cut the poverty rate by 50%; increased SNAP benefits by 15%; increased unemployment insurance and earned income tax credit. Crucially, it also bailed out 185 underfunded pension plans with 1.5 million participants, something unions had been asking for for almost a decade.
        3. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
        4. Biden is very pro-union. He has: personally visited a UAW picket line in support of striking workers. Invested in union jobs via the CHIPS and Science act; Increased enforcement of worker rights and unionizing via NLRB and DOL
        5. Biden issues an executive order on “worker organizing and empowerment” Tl;dr this set up a task force to promote unionization. Worth reading more here and here
        6. It’s true the Protecting the Right to Organize Act didn’t pass because we don’t have enough votes to overcome the GOP filibuster. Imagine what we could do if more progressives actually bothered to vote?

        I found an awful lot just googling “what have democrats done for workers?”, including this expansive article from which some of the above points are cribbed