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In September 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden promised organized labor that, if elected, he would be the “strongest labor president you’ve ever had.” In his first 100 days in office, now President Biden has acted quickly and aggressively to make good on this pledge. Some of these efforts have quickly come to fruition; the fate of others remains unclear and are likely to require congressional approval no certainty in a Congress where both the House of Representatives and Senate are operating with historically narrow margins. What is abundantly clear is that the new administration is committed to revisiting prior administration policies and moving decisively to advance its own pro-labor agenda, and in only 100 days, it has taken significant steps to do so.
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Joe Biden Has a Problem at the Department of Labor
The Department of Labor doesn’t get a lot of coverage, but is consequential in enforcing labor and wage laws, assessing employment data and dealing with labor-management matters at a time when the recovery of the United States is key.
Republicans are choosy about which of President Joe Biden’s nominees to fight more interested in low-hanging fruit such as ideological firebrands Neera Tanden for budget director and Health and Human Services pick Xavier Becerra. The Labor Department is rarely a very contentious post.
Biden tapped Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to be labor secretary and California’s labor secretary Julie Su for the deputy post. These two are hardly an inspiring duo for ethics or competence.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said his labor secretary nominee, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, understands that unions built the American middle class and will encourage unionization.