Last Monday, Biden issued an executive order establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, a move that aims to help unions expand their ranks. In this way, Biden is undertaking an extraordinary effort to help reverse the decades-long decline in labor unions’ membership and power. In announcing the taskforce, the White House said “the shrinking of America’s middle class [is] associated with the declining percentage of workers in unions”. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden meet with labor leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, including Eric Dean, general president of the Ironworkers International Union, right, in February. “Union workers earn roughly 13% more than non-union workers on a similar job site,” the White House said in a fact sheet.

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2021 06:00 UTC