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I've lately been mulling starting a business: A weight loss clinic for face eating leopards.
It takes a special type of stupid to be in a union and support any Republican ever.
A dude got kicked out of my union for wearing MAGA gear in Canada.
Ok, it was more because he was a total asshole who barely did his job. He has a very common first name and I didn’t know his last name, so my complaint about him made sure to single him out as “the guy that wears gear supporting a known union-buster to union work.”
Trump doesn't have a plan? Preposterous! He is the most smartestest, rootin-tootinest, bleached-asshole-eyed, super-businessed traitor. He has so many plans. Beautiful plans. Some nice men with clothes adorned with ancient spirtual iconography told him so at the rally.
He has “concepts of a plan”. He is a stable geni-us.
Lol, fuckem.
Man, media can really frame anything to get people to support it. Suddenly folks here love corporate mega mergers.
Yeah. "We found a union member completely unaware that they're absolutely statistically guaranteed to be fucked by this merger, who is also shocked that Trump doesn't give a shit what any union member thinks."
Not just that, but a mega merger that Biden and Harris opposed! This isn't a Democratic politics position. Or even something supported by the steel workers in general. It's just some specific workers that were in the place that was supposed to get investment after the merger. The "haha, shoulda voted Democratic" reaction is deeply dumb.
Reactionaries gonna react
Who let the leopards breed?!
They're going to have plenty of faces to feed their young.
Don't really get why Unions would be happy to sell to a foreign company. Short article kind of suggests it's contentious. Biden and other union members opposed it.
Not sure this is the dig on Trump people think it is.
U.S. Steel has brand new currently non union facilities in Arkansas. For sure anyone buying the company definitely wants these.
Nippon Steel says they would keep older (unionized) facilities in Pennsylvania open. Union leadership has said that they don't believe them.
U.S. Steel has said that they might close older facilities if the sale doesn't go through. Union members who work at the plants say that they believe Nippon Steel will protect their jobs and disagree with leadership.
IMO this is defyingly more of a "that's capitalism baybee!" than anything else.
Nippon Steel says they would keep older (unionized) facilities in Pennsylvania open. Union leadership has said that they don't believe them.
That promise plus $9 is absolutely worth the price of a coffee. Unless the price of coffee already went up again, then maybe not.
Sounds... complicated. But basically seems like the workers are going to be fucked either way.
Yes and it sounds like they're in denial
US Steel is super rocky and blocking a buy out by Nippon will likely mean some sort of deal with Cleveland-Cliffs. The difference is Nippon has negotiated that they would maintain union contracts and upgrade facilities in SW Pennsylvania whereas Cleveland-Cliffs will almost certainly shut the plants down.
Frankly, it’s a bandaid that eventually needs to be ripped off. USX hasn’t reinvested into their processes pretty much ever, decided to spend their time trying to circumvent Clean Air Act laws for 50 years and then bitch and moan that it would be too expensive to become compliant.
The Mon Valley has terrible air quality and it’s directly from three primary polluters, which are all USX facilities.
Trump’s stance has been criticized as a “gut punch” by union leaders like Jason Zugai, who had expected him to support the deal after the election.
Remember in 2018 when that Trump supporter went on TV to cry about how Trump "wasn't hurting the right people" during the longest government shutdown in history? Yeah, we've already been through the circus that is a Trump presidency, so sit down and STFU. You clowns are getting exactly what you voted for. Trump has never cared about you and never will.
Wait.... UNIONS are surprised TRUMP fucks them over?
It’s a blue collar union, and blue collar workers (regardless of union status) overwhelmingly vote conservative.
So they are getting what they asked for. I don't know why they would want to destroy their own jobs and opportunities, but here we are.
People in unions love voting conservative. They generally have the political acumen of a sea sponge and are easy to manipulate. When they lose their union, their benefits and have their income cut in half it will be Bidens fault for not putting more protections in place when he had the power to do so.
A bit overgeneralizing. This would not appy to teachers unions, and many others.
Yeah, I should have thought more before I posted. It more of a trades and labour unions thing.
This is perfect. We need to choose increasingly lower pixel shocked Pikachu for this kind of news, until it's just a vague yellow splat with red highlights and everyone still knows what it means.
Hopefully that gut punch was hard enough to be remembered at the next election.
We get to have another election?
Germany got them, too, after the war.
Only because they killed hitler. Ohhhh… good idea.
Dictators love elections as long as they decide who votes and who counts the votes.
Yep. And while I'm personally convinced the US was actually doing fine on "who counts the votes", the "who gets to vote" part has been rigged for quite a long time. Arguably from the very beginning.
Spoiler: ah nevermind. We all know
You wanted this over a Black woman president, rural Pennsylvania, and Trump-supporting union members. Those jobs ain't comin.
Biden and Harris both opposed this merger, as does the United Steelworkers Union. This isn't a gotcha moment.
The problem is that there is no alternate plan for the steelworkers there. Not even a concept. Besides subsisting on existing Biden's IRA and IIJA money there is no federal help planned. Harris had support for small business in her plan, and continuing the progress of Biden, including the CHIPS act for domestic silicon production, Pete Buttigieg's rail plans that would demand locally produced steel so on and so forth. Trump's answer would "weave" into something different every time you would ask.
The collective amnesia / cognitive dissonance in regards to the grifter in chief's first term is astonishing.
You have that shit blaring at you with the screens bright fast ads, pumped full of high fructose, QVC is now .. the entire internet.. no education on disinformation, tired and worn down from overworking and penny pinching.. what do we expect from people?
Yeah like you couldn't botch a worldwide pandemic worse than he did but enough Americans seemed to think he deserved another term. I only hope one of the other random viruses don't get out of control again..cause that's what stops them, hope right?
I know someone mourning the death of their younger brother to COVID who still voted for Trump.
The dude literally helped kill their younger brother, through his "leadership", but they don't see it that way.
.. and the years leading up to it, and the four years since .. shit has been ooozing out of both ends of that waste of humanity for a long time.