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\"\"<\/a>Libertarian Institute, November 30, 2022<\/h3>\n

Will Joe Biden Make the Trains Run on Time?<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by Jim Bovard<\/a><\/span>
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\u201cI intend to be the most pro-union <\/a>President leading the most pro-union administration in American history,\u201d President Joe Biden promised last year. But Uncle Joe has found his \u201cinner Mussolini\u201d and nothing is as important as the trains running on time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden is currently hammering Congress to enact legislation to effectively outlaw a strike next week by 100,000 railroad freight workers. Unions are threatening a work stoppage to compel railroad owners to provide more sick leave. Biden said yesterday, \u201cI share workers\u2019 <\/a>concern about the inability to take leave to recover from illness or care for a sick family member. No one should have to choose between their job and their health\u2014or the health of their children.\u201d<\/p>\n

But nothing matters more than the health of Biden\u2019s approval ratings\u2014which could be walloped by a strike that could quickly throw 765,000 Americans<\/a> out of work, according to White House estimates. \u201cCommunities could lose access to chemicals necessary to ensure clean drinking water. Farms and ranches across the country could be unable to feed their livestock,\u201d he warned. A rail strike could be almost as disruptive as the COVID shutdowns that Biden championed.<\/p>\n

Biden declared in April, \u201cWorkers who join a union gain power<\/a>\u2014the power over decisions that affect their lives.\u201d\u00a0 But not as much power as the president has over them.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden just became America\u2019s #1 \u201cElection Denier.\u201d<\/strong> Railroad workers voted not to accept the agreement reached by negotiators in September. \u201cI am reluctant to override the ratification<\/a> procedures and the views of those who voted against the agreement,\u201d the president said yesterday. But not reluctant enough to refrain from squashing the \u201cWill of the Railroad Workers\u201d (who are not as sacrosanct as the voters who supposedly coronated Biden\u2019s power with \u201cWill of the People\u201d).<\/strong><\/p>\n

No wonder Twitter is exploding with profane denunciations<\/a> of Biden as a union buster. Liberal activists are stunned at Biden\u2019s apparent betrayal of rank-and-file workers. But being pro-union\u2014like almost every other position\u2014is simply a \u201cflag of convenience\u201d for Biden. Yet the White House flip flop is surprising considering Biden\u2019s prior craven support for unions.<\/p>\n

When Congress dished out $52 billion in subsidies for new semiconductor factories, Biden boasted last <\/a>month in Syracuse that all the construction labor <\/a>would be union jobs\u2014even though the high-wage scales would help make the factory uncompetitive on world markets. (The Empire Center noted \u201croughly two-thirds<\/a> of Central New York construction workers will be excluded\u201d from those jobs because they aren\u2019t union members.)<\/p>\n

In an April speech to the Building Trades Union, Biden hailed a push for unionization <\/a>by Staten Island warehouse workers employed by Amazon: \u201cBy the way, Amazon here<\/a> we come. Watch! Watch!\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, Biden held a White House photo op including leaders of the Starbucks Workers United, which is pushing to unionize <\/a>the 400,000 baristas and other staff at the 15,000 Starbucks locales in the United States. Starbucks chief flack A.J. Jones complained after that meeting: \u201cAmerican workers have the absolute right to <\/a>decide for themselves to unionize, or not to unionize, without any undue influences.\u201d Like by the White House?<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s biggest and most disastrous pro-union intervention was his kowtowing to teacher unions to perpetuate school shutdowns during the COVID pandemic. Biden policymakers let teacher unions rewrite the Centers<\/a> for Disease Control guidance that justified keeping schools closed. Teacher unions effectively barricaded school doors the same way that segregationist governors in the 1950s and 1960s refused to obey federal court orders to admit black students. But as long as Team Biden can shirk blame for the devastating learning losses resulting from school shutdowns, his administration will continue to support teacher union demands.<\/p>\n

The specter of a disruptive rail strike should spur an examination of federal laws that vest vast economic veto power in unions.<\/strong> Federal statutes are based on a blind faith in the benefits of forcing people into herds\u2014on a presumption of the total incompetence or inability of the individual worker to achieve justice for himself. Federal law seeks to end the imbalance in power between corporations and employees by subjugating workers to union bosses. Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge, in a 1944 dissent, observed that federal labor law gave unions \u201ca thraldom over the men who designate them\u201d by \u201ccreating rights in the unions overriding those of the employees they represent.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prior to the 1930s, courts and legislatures generally refused to recognize that individual workers\u2019 right to make their own contracts could be nullified by the demands of groups of other workers. Massachusetts judge Frederick Arnold ruled in 1912, \u201cTo enforce a collective contract would be to deny the individual\u2019s liberty to make his own contract.\u201d Judges at that time recognized and respected voluntary collective bargaining contracts but not collective bargaining contracts that prohibited other workers from making their own contracts. Since the essence of a contract is voluntary consent by every party to the agreement, a collective bargaining agreement could not forcibly impose contract terms on workers who did not support the agreement. But federal law effectively entitles collusion that nullifies the right of individual workers to make their own contracts.<\/p>\n

The issue of unions\u2019 right to try to forcibly shut down businesses during a strike turns on a question of property rights\u2014whether a worker somehow automatically has an inalienable right to his existing job, at a salary that he demands. Does the fact that a businessman hired a worker automatically give that worker a perpetual right to employment on terms that the worker demands? A man has a right to walk off his job (unless the worker has voluntarily signed a no-strike contract) if he is not satisfied. But the right to walk off a job does not include the right to fracture the skull of someone else who walks into the job.<\/p>\n

Railroad unions are notorious for using their power to extort payment for make-work jobs\u2014know as \u201cfeatherbedding.\u201d<\/strong> Unions fought forever to preserve jobs for firemen on trains\u2014a relic of steam locomotives that were almost irrelevant after diesel engines. Unions also perpetuated plenty of contract clauses that failed to pass the laugh test. Until 1987, Burlington Northern railroad crews received hazardous-duty pay bonuses for working trains traveling through Montana because, according to the union contract, Montana was still classified as Indian territory. Railroads have also been shafted by a long series of idiotic management decisions.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Biden is hellbent on making federal labor law far more oppressive. He is championing the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), legislation that would bolster unions by destroying the jobs<\/a> of independent contractors across the nation. Any freedom that impedes the collection of union dues apparently deserves to be outlawed. As long as the unions deliver the votes and the money to politicians, they will be entitled to subjugate dissident workers and struggling businesses as they please.<\/p>\n

Biden ritually gushes about his love of unions to prove his love of working-class Americans. But Biden\u2019s railroad intervention is a reminder of the folly of expecting the president to give a damn about anything except his own approval ratings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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