I am reading shite post-election analyses claiming that the Democratic Party abandoned the American working class. I wonder how many of those who say such things are members of a union. In today's America, most effective workers union have a marked intersectional fabric. More than a century ago, when no party embraced the working class, this was organised into workers unions. If anyone abandoned the working class was the workers themselves, more than 5 decades ago.
I don't think the Democratic Party ever was a party of workers or they would have got some basic labour rights as amendments to the Constitution. The only such line in the Constitution is with regards to slavery, where most (not all!) forms of forced labour are banned. But the Democratic Party does not need to be a workers party to be embraced by the working class at the voting booth. They just need a strong working class forcing them to do so.
The funny thing is that Biden's presidency has been the most pro union since FD Roosevelt.
@poponion any specific examples of why this is true?
The PRO Act: a bill "that would encourage unions and dramatically enhance the power of workers to organize and collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.”
And this long article mention more than 70 policies:
https://theconversation.com/bidens-labor-report-card-historian-gives-union-joe-a-higher-grade-than-any-president-since-fdr-228771
Better or worse, real action. Not only speeches.
@poponion bills are passed by Congress, not presidents and this Bill in particular hasn't even been approved. The article mentions a report with 70 measures the government _could_ implement, not that they were implemented and in fact most of what the article describes is either symbolic (statements or gestures without any actual effect) or affecting a very small number of workers.
A really bad time for unions, if Musk gets the power to do what he said.
The first point of his agenda is clearly banning unions from the US.
