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Biden equal pay day10/2/2023 Companies, however, seem reluctant to meet unions’ terms in separate contract talks with script writers, actors, autoworkers and UPS employees. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorīiden has long called on businesses to hire unionized workers, saying that the premium paid will lead to higher quality work. But the Democratic president also knows from past experience that a strike could harm his reelection chances. Biden is trying to allay those concerns by saying unions should be a part of the way ahead. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)īut tensions are rising between unions and companies about a rapidly evolving economy in which artificial intelligence, clean energy and e-commerce are rewriting some of the basic rules of work. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., left, and Steinar Nerbovik, CEO of Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc., third from right, look on. President Joe Biden talks with Lasse Petterson, CEO of Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, second from left, as he tours a shipyard in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 20, 2023. “Union workers are the best in the world.” “A lot of my friends in organized labor know, when I think climate, I think jobs,” the president said. Biden ticked through the various union jobs being created by the project, promoting a message he has started to amplify as he seeks a second term. The president toured the Philly Shipyard, where there was a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel that will help to build offshore wind farms. Flanked by cranes and shipyard workers, President Joe Biden made the pitch Thursday that unions will be building America’s renewable energy future - a courtship of organized labor at a moment when some major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth he wants to campaign on in 2024.
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