Part of the problem Biden may have in lining up labor support is his own coziness with union-busting corporations.
Union support is a bigger prize than ever for Democratic Party presidential candidates in 2020. It comes with cash and ground troops who can connect face to face with voters and get them to the polls on Election Day. A self-proclaimed"union man," former Vice President Joe Biden has counted on labor throughout his more than 40 years in the U.S. Senate and in the White House.
Biden was the first to take the stage with his confident, almost cocky grin, lanky frame and thinning silver hair projected close up on monitor screens.The first question on stage was a relative softball: How would he help workers organize amid employer opposition? Tseganesh Endegeshet, a recent immigrant from Ethiopia, said she has two jobs to make ends meet and no health insurance."We haven't seen your plans yet," Endegeshet said.
Biden has a solid liberal voting record, but he's backed policies that have made poor people poorer and more powerless: President Bill Clinton declined to sign Biden's bankruptcy bill in 2000, reportedly after then-Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren persuaded Hillary Clinton it was a bad idea. Biden never took much heat for the policy.
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