Biden makes good on being most Union president
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Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Vice President Kamala Harris watch as President Joe Biden signs executive order on Project Labor Agreements
Biden makes another payment on his pledge to be the most pro-union president ever
Feb 07, 2022 1:49pm EST by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff
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President Joe Biden is taking nearly 70 new steps to live up to his pledge to be the most pro-union president in U.S. history. Biden has said he will adopt the recommendations of a task force on worker organizing and empowerment formed last April. The task force is chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and vice-chaired by Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
The National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935, noted that it is the policy of the United States to encourage the practice and procedure of collective bargaining, and to protect the exercise, by workers, of their full freedom of association. Unfortunately, the federal government has not always done its part to turn this policy into action, the report notes in discussing the task forces mission.