By Don McIntosh
President Joe Biden invited 10 top union leaders to the White House Feb. 17 for a meeting alongside Vice President Kamala Harris to talk about COVID relief and his plans to create manufacturing and clean energy jobs.
“The middle class built this country, and labor built the middle class,” Biden said in front of cameras before the private meeting began.
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka later called it the most productive Oval Office meeting for working people in years. The White House meeting coincided with several pro-union announcements, the latest in a string of overtures to America’s labor movement.
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