Joe Biden Archives - nwLaborPress

Workers organizing at Amazon, Starbucks, REI, Seattle game maker Paizo, and the animation studio Titmouse recently visited the President.

During a brief visit to Portland, President Joe Biden said union workers and apprenticeships will be vital in rebuilding U.S. infrastructure.

Last month’s U.S. Senate derailing of President Biden’s nominee David Weil was a sobering loss for the union movement.

Past decisions suggest Ketanji Brown Jackson—who’d replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer—will side with unions and working people.

Joe Biden isn’t getting a lot of love these days. But so far the record is clear: Labor has never had such a friend in the White House.

The new law spends $1.2 trillion over five years to upgrade bridges, highways, rail, transit, ports, airports, water systems, and more.

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.

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