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Omaha Steve

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Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:25 AM Sep 2020

Joe Biden tells A.F.L.-C.I.O. members he'll be 'the strongest labor president you have ever had'


https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-tells-f-l-001700599.html

Catherine Garcia ,The Week•September 7, 2020

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spent part of his Labor Day at the A.F.L.-C.I.O headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he promised that if elected, he will be "the strongest labor president you have ever had."

Biden vowed to increase the wages of essential workers, hold business executives liable if they interfere with unionization efforts, and pass the PRO Act to give workers more bargaining and organizational rights, The New York Times reports.

"Wall Street did not build this country," Biden said. "You did — the great American middle class. And the middle class was built by unions — unions — and the American people now finally get it after a long time of being convinced that unions were a problem, not the answer." A Gallup poll released at the end of August found that 64 percent of Americans approve of labor unions, up 16 points from a 2009 low point.

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Joe Biden tells A.F.L.-C.I.O. members he'll be 'the strongest labor president you have ever had' (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sep 2020 OP
Music to my ears! We cannot rebuild our Middle Class without a strong Union movement. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #1

Midnight Writer

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1. Music to my ears! We cannot rebuild our Middle Class without a strong Union movement.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 02:35 PM
Sep 2020

Remember when the Bush Administration was trying to rebuild the economy of Iraq?

They supported strong Labor Unions there.

Even the Republicans know Unions build the Middle Class. They are simply against that for the USA.

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