What will the poor do when they can’t even become a soldier?

That is 52 weeks / 12 months and it’d be most useful for extrapolating weekly pay or expenses. However, it’s not necessarily gonna help you with monthly expenses and months are different lengths and pay days do fall on the same days (not do months have the same amount of them.)

It’d be an illegal strike. If sanctioned by labor leaders they could end up in jail. There are also some protections for a legally recognized unions and they’d essentially loose all those protections. Including but not limited to the necessity for the rail company to bargain in good faith. Due to the national infrastructure concerns, the government would also likely step in and may even provide government employees to keep trains moving. For example, when Reagan fired the striking air traffic controllers, military personnel were brought in to fill the gaps of workers that wouldn’t cross the picket line. The workers that crossed the picket line were instrumental in making that possible. And something similar could happen to the rail workers.

Just incase you are wondering, the workers on strike (air traffic controllers) never got their jobs back.

Unfortunately this is the reality of organized labor nowadays. Laws which originally provided protections for collective bargaining have been gutted by things like Taft-Hartley, the railway labor act, executive privilege, etc. We’re at a point where most strike are illegal, “right to work” laws bleed out unions by forcing them to provide services without dues, companies see almost zero repercussions for breaking the law, etc. Its a real shame. The PRO Act would correct many of the issues. However, it’s had trouble making its way through the legislature.

That’s not what happened or how it works.

Source: I have a formal education in this area and lots of experience exercising it.

That’s not what happened or how it works.

They didn’t recently remove their right to strike. It’s baked into older legislation. Biden and congress did leverage that authority. And it was downright fucking ridiculous that Biden busted the strike by starting with: “as the most pro-union president ever”. Guess how his canned response letter also read when I contacted the White House?

Biden, that makes you a union buster you moron. You have to earn the title “most union president ever.” You don’t become it just because you said it.

Also, side note, but FDR was BY FAR the most pro-union president ever. Pro-working class period. His administration gave us OSHA, FLSA, the NLRA, Social Security…. the list goes on.