Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
U.S. rail workers and working-class allies are angry at President Joe Biden --the self-proclaimed 'most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history'--and Democratic congressional leaders for betraying them this week. 'You can't be 'pro-labor' if you don't stand in solidarity with workers when they decide to strike. Period.
'Yet when the steel hits the rail, they back the powerful and wealthy Class 1 rail carriers every time.' RWU organizer Ron Kaminkow similarly said that 'we have been played for well over a century by politicians and union officials alike.
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