{"id":1757183,"date":"2022-11-30T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757183"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:19:34","slug":"biden-blew-it-unions-turn-on-potus-after-he-moves-to-avert-railroad-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blew-it-unions-turn-on-potus-after-he-moves-to-avert-railroad-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Biden Blew It\u2019: Unions Turn On POTUS After He Moves To Avert Railroad Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-blew-it-unions-turn-on-potus-after-he-moves-to-avert-railroad-strike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After President Joe Biden this week urged Congress to prevent rail worker unions from striking, unions turned against the president, accusing him of betraying his commitment to stand by labor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe Biden blew it,&#8221; Railroad Workers United treasurer Hugh Sawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/myemail.constantcontact.com\/Press-Release--Rail-Workers-Unhappy-with-Biden-Call-to-Subvert-Strike--Mandate-Contract.html?soid=1116509035139&#038;aid=FV--sS2RyfU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Tuesday. &#8220;He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers. Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s conflict with unions comes after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewsolender\/2020\/09\/07\/biden-vows-to-be-strongest-labor-president-youve-ever-had-at-union-event\/?sh=1b6a41275d5d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised<\/a> them during his 2020 campaign that he would be the &#8220;strongest labor president you&#8217;ve ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, a Teamsters rail workers&#8217; affiliate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwe.org\/secondary.aspx?id=720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it was &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; that the president would not back the union&#8217;s strike to fight for paid sick days. A national strike <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/28\/biden-asks-congress-to-intervene-to-stop-looming-rail-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could cost<\/a> the United States $2 billion per day, according to the Association of American Railroads.<\/p>\n<p>The House <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3756478-house-passes-bill-to-avert-rail-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> Wednesday to intervene in the labor dispute and avert a strike, pending Senate approval. Congress will also vote on a separate measure that would grant rail workers seven paid sick days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After President Joe Biden this week urged Congress to prevent rail worker unions from striking, unions turned against the president, accusing him of betraying his commitment to stand by labor.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018Biden Blew It\u2019: Unions Turn On POTUS After He Moves To Avert Railroad Strike appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1757186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}