{"id":1765498,"date":"2022-12-07T05:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T10:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765498"},"modified":"2022-12-07T05:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T10:03:25","slug":"he-claims-to-be-pro-labor-but-hes-not-buttigiegs-focus-on-midterms-during-stalled-rail-negotiations-strains-relationship-with-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-claims-to-be-pro-labor-but-hes-not-buttigiegs-focus-on-midterms-during-stalled-rail-negotiations-strains-relationship-with-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He Claims To Be Pro-Labor But He\u2019s Not\u2019: Buttigieg\u2019s Focus On Midterms During Stalled Rail Negotiations Strains Relationship With Unions"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fhe-claims-to-be-pro-labor-but-hes-not-buttigiegs-focus-on-midterms-during-stalled-rail-negotiations-strains-relationship-with-unions%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=1765498&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>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a no-show in negotiations with the rail works union at a key inflection point, opting instead to hit the campaign trail for Democrats ahead of the midterms and leave the heavy lifting to other officials, a move that has angered the secretary&#8217;s onetime union allies.<\/p>\n<p>The outrage came after the White House designated Buttigieg as a point man for a new labor agreement with the country&#8217;s rail worker unions when negotiations began breaking down in September, according to <em>Politico<\/em>. Although other officials made public efforts to reach a deal\u2014Labor Secretary Marty Walsh in September said his team spent &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/osec\/osec20220915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 consecutive hours<\/a>&#8221; at the negotiating table in a press release\u2014neither Buttigieg nor the Department of Transportation, which did not respond to an interview request, made public statements on Buttigieg&#8217;s role in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>But Buttigieg was a regular on the campaign trail, attending more candidate rallies than any other Biden administration official. Union leaders\u2014who sought paid sick leave\u2014told the<em> Washington Free Beacon <\/em>they no longer see Buttigieg as a friend to their cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He claims to be pro-labor but he\u2019s not,&#8221; said retired rail worker Marilee Taylor, who now works at the Railroad Workers United, in a nod to Buttigieg&#8217;s ambitious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/26\/how-pete-buttigieg-would-expand-workers-rights-1621927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign pledges<\/a>. &#8220;He has no idea the conditions working people face. He sits in an office and climate controlled rooms wearing a suit all day. He doesn\u2019t have any idea of what we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stakes of the contract negotiations between rail workers and their bosses couldn\u2019t have been higher, with workers threatening a strike that could cripple the U.S. economy. As Walsh sat for marathon negotiation sessions in Washington, D.C., in September to avoid a strike, Buttigieg was in Michigan, a midterm battleground state, at the Detroit Auto Show and an awards dinner. At the dinner, Buttigieg expressed his &#8220;appreciation to all the parties that stayed at the table,&#8221; and celebrated the &#8220;good news&#8221; that a tentative agreement was reached. The Department of Labor&#8217;s announcement of the agreement made no mention of Buttigieg or the Department of Transportation as participants in the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Rail workers said they thought they would have an ally in Buttigieg, who enjoyed months of paid paternity leave last year, when it came to worker benefits. Helping a major Democratic voting bloc achieve their goal of getting paid sick days\u2014the main sticking point in the negotiations\u2014could have been an easy way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a no-show in negotiations with the rail works union at a key inflection point, opting instead to hit the campaign trail for Democrats ahead of the midterms and leave the heavy lifting to other officials, a move that has angered the secretary&#8217;s one-time union allies.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018He Claims To Be Pro-Labor But He\u2019s Not\u2019: Buttigieg\u2019s Focus On Midterms During Stalled Rail Negotiations Strains Relationship With Unions appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1765501,"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-1765498","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\/1765498","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}