re: Railroad shutdown avoided. Anybody happy about that?

I don’t care if the Dems consider it a win or not. This was a potentially ugly situation and as long as it helps fix some of the long term logistics issues, I’m fine with it.

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the price to ship something by rail doubles overnight

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And Buffet and Blackrock will use this cover to keep printing even more money with their monopolies

Car prices going up again.

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It’s called more government subsidies to the RRs! More taxes for Joe Taxpayer

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You are really showing your ignorance. Where do you get your information from? Do some research before you talk.

I know that under normal conditions the FRA should not be able to set nor affect wages of a private employer but do you not realize that having the President or any government figure “strongly encourage” or otherwise take part in negotiations such as what happened over the past few days is a direct manipulation and “wage setting” situation. Meaning the government CAN in this way set the wages of a private employer. If those private employers had been wanting and willing to give raises, they would have already done it. So do you think those private companies don’t feel like the government has caused them to have to pay wages they didn’t want to set on their own?

I’m glad the strike got averted and appears to be settled, both for my friends who still work in the railroad and for our nation, a rail strike could only have negative affects on our national economy. But rail workers were used as pawns in this process, most having not received fair raises in years. This strike has been threatened for months and could have been averted long ago but this administration used the rail workers and the unions that represent them as a political theater and drug this out till 6 weeks before elections so they can try to parade it in the media and take credit for doing what should have been done months or years ago.
Hopefully the workers can get some back time wages to as reparation for being pawns for the current administration.

Something I’d like to know from you though is, exactly what is in place that would prevent the president from being able to affect rail workers pay?
What about the way this administration has used war power acts and anything they wanted to directly manipulate actions of private companies would make you think that they couldn’t or wouldn’t use whatever power they wanted to in order to affect rail transportation?

What law or policy is in place that would prevent this administration from using or misusing the Interstate Commerce Act or any other act or rule they want to make up against railroad companies?
Precedent was set over 100 years ago that proved the government can and did take control of the railroads, what law is in place now that would prevent the government from doing that again? This administration just gave the railroads $66 billion dollars, the biggest investment in rail travel in decades, do you not think that billions of taxpayers dollars has a way of swaying railroad companies, private or otherwise?
So in reality, the government DOES have ways to affect and set wages in private employers, namely the railroads. But you already know that, right?

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he Biden admin may have simply done their job and nothing more, but since the Right has been painting any strike as a failure for Biden, now it looks like a huge win.

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I haven't seen the settlement but I guarantee you that this renegade, illegitimate administration gave away even more than they were asking. Probably just as illegal as most of his other EOs.

Any retroactive pay was always negotiated away. Never got any.

I'm happy for the RR workers. I had to pay RR retirement plus social security. You can only draw one or the other. We paid social security as a "bail out" agreement to help the government pay for social security even if we were not allowed to draw from it.

Again, the problem wasn't that you had paid days available, it's because you couldn't use them when you needed them.

You are absolutely correct, lots of folks say RR workers don’t pay social security. That’s actually not the case, they pay an amount about equal or equal to what they would be paying if they worked at other non-RR jobs plus they pay into the railroad retirement funds. If they leave the RR, whatever they had paid toward social security rolls into their social security history.
If my memory is correct, you have to work a certain number of years to vest in the RR retirement, if you leave before you reach that number of years, you forfeit any benefits and lose whatever you had paid into the RR retirement funds.
I think they called it Tier 1 and Tier 2 withholdings, one is SS and the other is RR.

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Is poor Noodles going to make it past Sunday lunch?

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Depends on how the game goes, Noodles may be dredged in flour and frying in the cast iron by halftime