Tag: President Joe Biden
20 things Biden has already done to help unions and workers
Only a month into his presidency, President Joe Biden has already taken some big actions to help working people. Some of them have gotten...
Keystone XL pipeline would have cost at least 500 union rail...
Thousands of jobs in the trucking industry
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
Even as TC Energy, the main contractor on the Keystone XL project, debunked misinformation that...
Raising minimum wage to $15/hr would lift pay of 32 million...
President Joe Biden has proposed raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. The increase is long overdue – the federal...
Biden removes all 10 members of anti-worker Federal Service Impasses Panel
President Joe Biden has removed all 10 members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP) – the arm of the Federal Labor Relations Authority...
Biden meets with Labor leaders to discuss infrastructure, apprenticeships and coronavirus...
Washington – President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and key Administration officials met with union leaders this week to discuss the challenges facing...
No, Biden didn’t kill 11,000 union jobs by canceling the Keystone...
The number was far lower, but impacted unions are still upset
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
On his first day in office, Democratic President Joe Biden signed...
YOUR LETTERS: Biden’s ‘Buy American’ executive order will boost economy
The concept of Buy American is simple: Our tax dollars should be used to create jobs and advance production here at home.
For far too...
Biden fires Trump-appointed NLRB general counsel Peter Robb
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
When Donald Trump was campaigning for office in 2016, he promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. He filled it with...
‘A new day of hope’ for federal workers
Biden rescinds Trump executive orders that targeted federal workers
Washington – The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing federal and D.C....
Biden nominates Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a Laborer and former head...
Boston (PAI) — Organized Labor, for the first time in years, will have a unionist at the president’s Cabinet table, as Democratic President-Elect Joe...