Text refers to carriers, not unions. About 90 percent of unionized rail workers have coverage now, with new agreements still being announced. There was a new one yesterday.
The rail story is a useful test case because the follow-through got nearly zero coverage, while lots of people, me included, had filed the original event away as a betrayal by Biden. So you get the surprising new facts and you reevaluate your conclusions, or else you do the other thing.
Way too many people think strikes are the point of being in a union. Reporting on behind-the-scenes negotiations that may drag out for months/years is not getting anyone's attention unless you're actually in the union.
I was thinking "strikes are the battles of the workers" and then I thought "maybe this fixation on strikes as a good in themselves is coming from a similar place as the celebration of battle in itself"
