During the 2020 campaign, Biden promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen.” Action is urgently necessary. In 1983, 20 percent of workers in the United States were union members; in 2020, that’s down to about 10.8 percent. Among employees in the private sector, the decline was even more precipitous: from 17 to 7 percent. Studies by the Economic Policy Institute and Brookings attribute the drop in union membership, along with globalization and automation, as a significant factor in wage stagnation and inequality, with the largest impact on lower income workers.
Approval of labor unions, it is worth noting, is the highest it has been since 2003. In a Gallup poll conducted in 2020, 65 percent of respondents (comprised of 83 percent of Democrats, 64 percent of Independents, and 45 percent of Republicans) expressed a positive view.
Biden can strengthen labor unions, with or without Congress
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Monday, March 1, 2021
President Joe Biden summarily removed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Peter Robb from office on January 20, 2021, and removed Robb’s deputy, Alice Stock the following day. On January 25, 2021, the president named Peter Sung Ohr to be acting General Counsel. Ohr was the NLRB’s Chicago office Regional Director. Because President Biden subsequently nominated Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as GC, Ohr will continue to serve as acting GC presumably until the Senate acts upon the nomination. As the NLRB official tasked with prosecuting cases and overseeing the NLRB’s regional offices, the GC has significant authority over NLRB policies and procedures. Former GC Robb’s tenure was notable for the extent to which he facilitated the reversal of Obama-era NLRB rules and policies. Biden’s recent actions are clearly meant to change direction from that of Trump administration appointees like Robb. Some have speculated that unfair lab