Repair the Crumbling Infrastructure of the American Labor Movement Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions? Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A former public affairs aide for the AFL-CIO once told me he spent most of his day fielding queries from conservatives. Most liberals outside the Rust Belt lost interest in organized labor decades ago; only now are they starting, tentatively, to think again about unions’ role in creating the sort of society they want. Conservatives, by contrast, never lost interest in “Big