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The Biden Administration continues to name union figures to top government positions. The latest two appointments will oversee trade policy.

Officially federal labor law is supposed to encourage collective bargaining, but Biden says the government "has not used its full authority.”

President Biden is asking Congress for $2 trillion in federal investment in infrastructure, research, training and home care over a decade.

Marty Walsh, sworn in as labor secretary March 23, is the former head of Laborers Local 223 and the Boston Building Trades Council.

Signed into law March 11, a year after COVID was declared a pandemic, the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill took effect almost immediately.

The just-passed COVID relief bill will rescue and restore over 100 declining union pension plans.

The U.S. House passed the PRO Act—labor’s top priority—March 9. Five Republicans joined all but one Democrat voting yes.

With Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama voting on a union this month, Joe Biden speaks out: Unions built the middle class, not Wall Street.

Continuing a string of overtures to the labor movement, Biden announced a pro-union NLRB nominee and reversed Trump moves on apprenticeship.

Congress may soon consider the most game-changing pro-union legislation in 80 years. The PRO Act would restore workers’ right to unionize.

The previous general counsel, a management-side labor lawyer appointed by Trump, tried to muzzle Scabby the Rat as soon as he took office.

Congress' latest COVID relief bill would also shore up declining union-sponsored multi-employer pensions and restore pension benefits.

Two weeks in, Joe Biden is showing signs he may make good on his election eve pledge to be “the most pro-union President you’ve ever seen.”

With Democrats now in charge of the Senate, Oregon’s Jeff Merkley could help pass major pro-worker legislation. We spoke by phone Jan. 28.

If confirmed by the newly-seated Democratic Senate, Marty Walsh would be the first union member to serve as labor secretary since 1977.

A new round of aid is headed to jobless workers, struggling businesses and to people who are doing just fine.

He pledged to rewrite NAFTA, invest $1 trillion in infrastructure, and slash taxes for the rich. Now there's a 4-year record to judge him by.

The GOP, particularly at the national level, has become explicitly anti-union. Meanwhile, Democrats are returning to more pro-union stances.

Joe Biden is putting forward the most pro-labor campaign planks of any Democratic presidential nominee in generations.

Aug. 22 saw demonstrations in support of the U.S. Postal Service at hundreds of post offices around the country.