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In the Portland area, Plasterers Local 82 and OPEIU Local 11 could undo pension benefit cuts almost immediately.

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.