Thats a great one! Something about metro/regional systems though scratch my itch better than intercity

youtu.be/KYIkXep7n5I

there were a bunch of stories at the beginning about how they weren’t going to bow to firing pressure this time no matter how incompetent

I mean they arent, they are fine throwing ATU under the bus (sometimes literally) but that might be something localized to Atlanta…

Theres a wild sticker shock to hearing 136k is working class when the median income in the US is mid 60k.

But San Diego is a wild market so seeing when housing assistance kicks in its like “welp what policies would help Meatball” and while I still think class is more than income something IS wrong

Like, taking you at your word that 136k is working class while doing white collar work:

Then that work needs unions to get better pay to get you to middle class

Developers need to use SB70 to expand housing construction

Sanbag needs to expand transit so you can get rid of car expenses

Not enough of them in comparison to trade unions. Ive worked union my entire adult life (IBEW, IAM, and ATU) and its won me a solid middle class life.

We need white collar unions to get individual contributor class (ugh) to that as well.

We also need to strengthen and expand retail unions