US Rail strike: Senate passes bill to avert labour stoppage

[Gunny]

How is this Constitutional? Had my wish, all parties involved except the employees themselves would lose. I don't think there's an option for that :)

But seriously, forcing employees to take whatever the Fed government thinks they deserve? I'm sure it has been semantically found Constitutional by the government, but it really is not, IMO.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63829123

[SassyLady]

How is this Constitutional? Had my wish, all parties involved except the employees themselves would lose. I don't think there's an option for that :)

But seriously, forcing employees to take whatever the Fed government thinks they deserve? I'm sure it has been semantically found Constitutional by the government, but it really is not, IMO.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63829123

Did the president just nationalize the rail industry?

Remember when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers?

[fj1200]

Not sure about constitutionality but...


Congress has the authority to regulate interstate commerce under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has ruled it can use that authority to intervene in disputes by rail labor that have the potential to affect trade across state lines. A nearly century-old law, the Railway Labor Act of 1926, gives the president the authority to intervene as well in situations where a rail strike could significantly affect essential transportation. The act has been invoked 18 times since it was signed into law.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/biden-signs-bill-averting-rail-worker-strike-despite-lack-of-paid-sick-days.html

Air traffic controllers are Federal employees.

[Gunny]

Not sure about constitutionality but...


https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/biden-signs-bill-averting-rail-worker-strike-despite-lack-of-paid-sick-days.html

Air traffic controllers are Federal employees.

I already knew there was a law on the books for the Dems/Fed gov't to abuse. It once again highlights the fact that anybody who thinks anyone or anything is this country is "free", especially from government control, is just drinking the government Kool Aid. In the end, the US government will use military force if necessary to enforce its will on the people, and legislate itself as legal after the fact, and use a propaganda campaign (like we see now) to convince the purposefully blind and uneducated idiots that they were noble and right and it was for "the Cause". See" US Civil War.

This should however illustrate to even the blindest of sheeple that the notion of "free enterprise" is a sham. "Free" to do what the government allows is about it.