Social issues and economic propaganda have become so extreme that many union members don't care about union endorsement and will continue to vote on superficial rhetoric against their own interests. I witnessed first hand enough of the union vote go to elect Rick Scott over Alex Cink over 10 years ago based in large part over the fear drummed up about gun rights. He then hand picked the PERC board which through a series of events weakened collective bargaining in florida. Then they re-elected him. Most people in general aren't interested in researching candidate issues from unbiased sources. Doesn't help that the alternative to DeSantis was found drugged out in a hotel room orgy which just fortified many anti-Dems stances. Most union members in my area would rather they stay out of politics altogether which of course, isn't an option but don't believe for a second that most are going to be informed votes regardless. They will vote emotion and identity politics more now than ever.
Still half of what it was in 2019 Trumps last year. lol. You can be fooled with anything. Pro tip: ask one more question after you hear something.
U.S. extends mortgage forbearance and foreclosure moratorium - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) I guess you forgot about this In March 2020, the federal government rolled out a series of measures to protect homeowners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policies allowed people with federally backed mortgages — about 70% of the market — to delay mortgage payments for up to a year if they had a pandemic-related financial hardship. And they barred foreclosures on homes with loans backed by the federal government for a limited amount of time. Along with the free covid money
Hopefully never. You would have thought that the FED would have learned their lesson with that when Alan Greenspan was in office but they made the stupid mistake of dropping the federal funds rate too low once again. So to answer your question I hope that never happens again
If you live near a factory of any kind you should drive through its parking lot this summer. It pretty obvious that you don’t have a strong grasp of how the union membership and union management are not on the same page.
Speaking of Greenspan, for anyone who still buys the media horsecrap of him being a “Maestro”, this is a good read. Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve Much of the subject matter of this book was still very prevalent with Yellen and Powell.
CBS anchor admits he failed to find a single person outside New Hampshire grocery store who 'feels good about the economy' after inflation rises to 3.4 percent (msn.com) 'People are really bummed out about the economy here in New Hampshire,' he said. 'Even if the overall big picture numbers are going in the right direction, and even if people's own personal experiences in general are going okay, there's a lot of gloom.' 'Food prices, for example, are generally going up. And we talked to a bunch of people outside of a grocery store in Derry, New Hampshire — we couldn't find anybody feeling good about the economy.' Inflation rose to 3.4 percent in December - above economists' predictions - sparking fears the Federal Reserve could delay interest rate cuts
What about the bankruptcies? Were you surprised? Half of Trumps healthiest year. Why you changing the subject?
Heaven forbid someone uses their power to look out for the middle class. Over-leveraged businesses get bailed out frequently to the tune of billions of dollars, and perfectly healthy companies get billions in tax breaks and incentives, all while people dump on programs to help individuals make a better life for themselves. I see nothing wrong with the President of the United States providing symbolic support for people over corporations. For the last 50 years increased income and wealth disparity can be traced back to a disproportionate share of profits going to investors over the workers and we need to reverse this trend. Appalling? No, appalling is the bootlicking for our corporate overlords (and yes, I work for one of the largest…).
You've got Fox News & Tik Tok on your bingo card. Can we just get a call out for Gateway Pundit and Western Journal or Daily Caller? You'll be golden!
What union leadership says may or may not have any impact on how rank and file members will cast their votes in a presidential election. What will have an impact will be the bottom line on their paychecks and it will be considerably larger both now and in the future keeping in mind that Biden supported the UAW when it was striking against the Big Three as well as a number of other smaller companies in the industry. Under one of the contracts negotiated by the UAW (from the Union's website).
We are preparing to negotiate a CBA this summer. We have been provided by the union the data from the last years negotiations at various companies and industries. While I don’t doubt the numbers that you provided they are absolutely at the very high end of what we were given and absolutely not at the norm. Based on what I’ve seen the recent negotiations have been great for the least skilled workers but not so great for the higher paid skills such welders, top painters, and CNC machinists. That is typical for unions. A person with one of those skills that is excellent at what they do will still be able to walk to a non union shop and make more. We lose top skills every week to non union shops in some cities for significant raises. The unions still do not want to differentiate by competence and only go by seniority. We would pay our good welders 2-3X what they make but the union would make us pay all of them the same and that won’t work. The good ones are worth their wait in gold for productivity. It is hard to blame the membership. If they entered a five year CBA before 2021 then they have really been screwed the last two years as COLA caps negotiated back then don’t even scratch the surface of the inflation over the same time. Union manager agreed to the COLA caps in 19 in exchange for a slightly higher immediate bump. Looking back that was not a good move at all. What is not mentioned is that the less skilled worked getting the biggest raises are the easiest ones to automate. I will give Fain credit, he is getting results. But seeing what I am seeing by job skill category the most skilled aren’t making out as well as the lower skills. I don’t think that is what’s best for membership as they will lose the higher skilled workers.
Sorry, but you are a little off here. Executive boards have been helping themselves at ridiculous levels over that time. Investor dividend rates have not made the same level of gain as executive and board compensation.
