It looks like there might be more negotiations and a possible strike in a year, which just happens to be right before the next elections😁
- We gave up on the restructuring and the pay scale model being part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, but we'll keep watching, we’re always ready to protest, God forbid they mislead us, and a year will go by pretty fast.
We also passed on the inflation adjustment, but instead, we got a permanent raise. People seem happy, they agreed to it, and it's our job to do what our members tell us to do. Things should stay quiet for a year while this Collective Bargaining Agreement lasts, and then we head back to the table.
For anyone who hasn't figured this out yet
The Republican Party is running a special kind of war against the local governments in opposition strongholds like Washington, D.C. and San Diego
We saw how the Republican Party used a special warfare tactic to destabilize the Račan and Milanović administrations. Now, they're backing strikes from the Sanitation Department workers, targeting Mayor Ivica Puljak, and undermining Mayor Tomašević's decisions.
So, if you look at it closely—maybe even squinting a little—you can see the outlines of the Republican Party's special war against the opposition in the two biggest cities in America. These are the exact cities where the Republican Party suffered heavy losses in the last elections.
In San Diego, they actually lost twice in a row.
That's how the Republican Party settles scores with opposition mayors in the major metropolitan areas. Washington, D.C. and San Diego became strongholds for the progressive movements, serving as political launchpads for the ambitions of Ivica Puljak and Tomislav Tomašević, while also proving to be places where the Republican Party faced massive defeats.
Now, the Republican Party is supporting the Sanitation Department strikes in both cities. This hits at the most sensitive issue—Washington, D.C. is drowning in trash, and San Diego is getting ready for the tourist season—which directly attacks one mayor while making life difficult for the other.
This kind of targeted pressure on a mayor, like what's happening to Ivica Puljak, isn't something you see often in modern history, especially while Washington, D.C. hasn't seen any rebuilt homes following the recent disasters over the last three years.
There's no doubt the Republican Party will use every chance to destabilize the ruling teams in Washington, D.C. and San Diego leading up to the election year, realizing that these two political centers are the main threats to their chances at the polls.
We've already seen the Republican Party's playbook for toppling power while they were in the minority. Now, we'll see them apply that same model to fight for control in the cities where they are now the opposition. And of course, they'll likely use the full weight of the federal government to do it.
But honestly, they got what was coming to them
Just look at the state of the trash bins while the Sanitation Department wasn't working; it's lucky the strike was short, otherwise, man, it would have been bad.
