It Didn’t Take Long for Joe Biden to Betray the Labor Movement
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It Didn’t Take Long for Joe Biden to Betray the Labor Movement
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/joe-biden-amazon-workers-unionizing-labor
After promising to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” Joe Biden is staying silent as Amazon workers try to unionize in Alabama. It could be because he’s just being Joe Biden — or it could be because of the massive leverage and influence the company exerts through its size.
Much as I hate Jacobin quite a lot of the times, they seem to be right here. And it's because of people like Joe Biden that there pretty much is no labor movement, at least not one like the earlier decades. We'll see how the events at Bessemer go, but it won't be any thanks to Joe Biden...