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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: What’s Joe Biden’s Agenda for Labor?
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When Joe Biden was campaigning for president, he never came across as the most pro-labor candidate. Indeed, the left flank of the Democratic (or rather, anti-Trump) vote tended to gravitate toward Bernie’s full-throatedly populist, democratic socialist agenda. But in the end, Biden rode into the White House with a lot of the labor movement’s hopes—along with some healthy skepticism—pinned on him. Now that his administration is starting to roll out its labor agenda—which includes a number of progressive demands such as a $15 minimum wage, expansion of workers’ right to org...