Eric Bolling accused a railroad worker of trying to destroy the "free market capitalist system." Still, the Newsmax host exposed conservatives for always siding with corporate greed over hard-working Americans. We're nearly at the end of 2022, and railway workers do not get paid time off if they are sick. Oh, and Covid is still a very real thing, but Bolling doesn't care that we're still suffering through a pandemic, and workers can't get paid time off.
Bolling interrupted a railway worker on his show, and then he interrupted the workers' attorney, who explained that the employees want "to be treated fairly."
Via the Intelligencer:
Rather, if such workers wish to recuperate from an illness or make time to see a doctor about a nagging complaint, they need to use vacation time, which must be requested days in advance. In other words, if a worker wants to take time off to recover from the flu, they need to notify their employer of this days before actually catching the virus. Given that workers' contracts do not include paid psychic benefits, this is a tall order.
And there's this:
All of which invites the question: Why do these rail barons hate paid leave so much? Why would a company have no problem handing out 24 percent raises, $1,000 bonuses, and caps on health-care premiums but draw the line on providing a benefit as standard and ubiquitous throughout modern industry as paid sick days?
The answer, in short, is “P.S.R.” — or precision-scheduled railroading.
P.S.R. is an operational strategy that aims to minimize the ratio between railroads’ operating costs and their revenues through various cost-cutting and (ostensibly) efficiency-increasing measures. The basic idea is to transport more freight using fewer workers and railcars.
Republicans are useless. They'll step in if Apple hurts Elon Musk's feelings, but not for this.
When former President Donald Trump first got into office, he gifted the wealthy with a tax break. Conservatives are only happy if the middle class is taking a beating so that the rich can get richer. Remember that when you vote.
