Biden is returning to his union roots as his 2024 campaign gears up
Associated PressWASHINGTON — Joe Biden opened his 2020 presidential run at a Pittsburgh union hall, declaring, “I’m a union man. “He sees the role that working people and unions play in everything that he’s trying to make happen.” Many of the country’s top unions, including the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, announced Friday their endorsements of Biden’s 2024 campaign — the first time the groups have done so in a coordinated manner and this early in the presidential election cycle. Brent Booker, general president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, which represents mostly construction and energy sector workers and endorsed Biden last week, said that a key reason the union announced it was backing Biden so early was to ensure its members know how much his administration has accomplished, especially with the public works law. And what did the Biden administration do on infrastructure?’” Henry also noted that her union “had some small percentage of members that were for Trump” in the past. She said Biden’s pro-labor reelection message is a strong one, but also cautioned that the president, when he speaks to voters, refrain from against getting “bogged down in the recitation of accomplishment” and instead makes clear “how those accomplishments are going to make a difference in people’s everyday lives.” “Talking about how he understands that, for the vast majority of the American people, there’s still a lot of struggle to make ends meet,” Henry said, “and that he’s tried to use his first four years in office to intervene in that struggle.”
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