From pension help to federal regulations, unions welcome the Biden Administration Comes as various labor battles continue across Capital Region FacebookTwitterEmail Unions are encouraged and pleased so far with how the Biden Administration is treating them.SAUL LOEB/Getty ROTTERDAM — Tom Baum and about 16,000 other retired Teamsters got some good news recently. The 29 percent pension cut they suffered three and a half years ago is being restored as part of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan designed to pull the nation’s economy out of the economic mess created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive Rescue Plan contains $82 billion to help shore up pensions in general.