If workers in critical infrastructure would get so high wages through striking, why don’t the train drivers have that already?

Might depend on your country, but for Germany there are no direct candidates that we votes for. Everybody hat one vote one could give to a party, which had presented a list of people for the election. At the end the party then send the first x people of that list, according to how many of the German representatives were to be send by that party.

So, effectively all MEP which are German are “my” MEP. Or just the party I voted for if I want to be exclusive.

Biden is still being critizised for his handling of immigrants on the border. But at least he rolled back some of Trump’s policies.