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Just 16% of voters in 2020 lived in a union household. Unions also aided Biden’s election victory over President Donald Trump in 2020. Labor Department data shows that workers under age 35 are much less likely to belong to a union than their older peers, meaning that the future of the union movement might depend on bringing in younger generations. On Monday, he met with younger workers trying to unionize at Starbucks, minor league baseball, bus-maker Blue Bird and Sega. When asked if an autoworkers or Teamsters strike could similarly threaten growth, administration officials declined to speculate and said only that the president believes in the right of collective bargaining for workers.īiden spent part of this week focused on efforts to expand unionization into new industries. The tentative deal prevented a strike, but it failed to appease workers, and Congress ultimately had to intervene by imposing an agreement. Last year, the administration hustled to forge a tentative agreement between rail companies and their unionized workers to avoid a strike that could have injured the economy before the midterm elections.

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The strike has put TV shows and movies in limbo. Hollywood production is shut down as the Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild are striking, partially over concerns about streaming revenues as well as AI taking away jobs from creative workers. Companies, however, seem reluctant to meet unions’ terms in separate contract talks with script writers, actors, autoworkers and UPS employees. But the Democratic president also knows from past experience that a strike could harm his reelection chances.īiden has long called on businesses to hire unionized workers, saying that the premium paid will lead to higher quality work. Biden is trying to allay those concerns by saying unions should be a part of the way ahead. “Union workers are the best in the world.”īut tensions are rising between unions and companies about a rapidly evolving economy in which artificial intelligence, clean energy and e-commerce are rewriting some of the basic rules of work. “A lot of my friends in organized labor know, when I think climate, I think jobs,” the president said. Biden ticked through the various union jobs being created by the project, promoting a message he has started to amplify as he seeks a second term. The president toured the Philly Shipyard, where there was a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel that will help to build offshore wind farms.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Flanked by cranes and shipyard workers, President Joe Biden made the pitch Thursday that unions will be building America’s renewable energy future - a courtship of organized labor at a moment when some major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth he wants to campaign on in 2024.

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