In a nod to labor unions, President Joe Biden is moving to boost wages for construction workers on projects paid for with federal funding, a step that would appeal to a key constituency ahead of next year’s presidential election and potentially shrink the pay gap between northern and southern states.
IBEW Local 26 member here. Journeyman Electrical Foreman.
Most states with strong union participation are blue states. Many red states are against unions.
I get where you are coming from, but especially considering construction workers are 3% of the workforce in America, one can’t expect my idiot coworkers to have much of an impact.
Also, Biden or Trump, I don’t care. I don’t trust any of these rich people in politics. They are all crooks, IMHO.
One party is banning books…
The other thinks it’s important to get along with the book burners. They think the book burners are decent people who are just misguided on a few issues. They act like civil debate will solve all problems.
Source: Totally didn’t just pull this out of my ass to construct a shitty strawman.
You’re speaking of the same group.
The “other” doesn’t want to deal with book burners, and wants them to stop.
Which makes them just as bad… 🙄
Don’t discount yourself or your coworkers - shifting the votes of 3% of Americans could have changed the election results of almost every presidential election since 1992 if they went from the winning candidate to the losing candidate.
The top dogs being crooks sucks, but shouldn’t mean that the only acceptable response is political apathy - not doing anything is functionally equivalent to acceptance of the status quo.
Oh, I still vote. I never said that. I just write in my candidates.
Once we have ranked voting, that would work.
Otherwise it’s naive to think that vote does anything to help you or yours.
So in practice you are handing your vote to the GOP and Trump. Congratulations on having been convinced by the “apathetic” narrative into handing power over to the GOP.
The two party system is the real joke.
They aren’t all the same.
Reagan tried to kill the Unions. After boasting about being head of Screen Actors Guild.
There’s a difference.
You should probably care regardless.
Write-ins, amigo.
Big difference with Trump is that a win in 2024 will be the end of democracy in USA.
I’m not being dramatic: He’ll pardon himself for everything (as already established) and then use stacked supreme court / police / military / mob rule to prevent himself being removed again.
Only one of those two people said that parts of the Constitution should be terminated and it wasn’t Biden. I’d say you should care about that, but your mileage may vary.