• GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They were never gonna get 15. I assume 15 was the high ball with something in the middle being an acceptable target.

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      1 year ago

      Perhaps, but again there were other demands as well. And 5 is quite low. I have a hard time seeing the federal government stepping in, keeping the workers from demonstrating their power, and then getting them a few crumbs of what they wanted as a good thing.

      The big winner in that whole debacle was still the rail companies.

      If that’s the best the federal government can get from the rail companies, and they won’t nationalize them, then the workers needed to strike anyway. Short term economic disruption be damned.

      The government should step in the stop the rail companies, not the unions.