{"id":1048877,"date":"2024-10-15T18:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048877"},"modified":"2024-10-15T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:24:56","slug":"icymi-the-biden-harris-administration-is-the-first-administration-in-five-decades-to-have-an-increase-in-union-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-biden-harris-administration-is-the-first-administration-in-five-decades-to-have-an-increase-in-union-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: The Biden-Harris Administration Is the First Administration In Five Decades To Have An Increase In Union Petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cThere has been a doubling of petitions by workers to have union representation during President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, according to figures released Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-trump-unions-labor-harris-a312a2d9b3ef77e139ae45f19d493894\"><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Petitions for union representation doubled under Biden\u2019s presidency, first increase since 1970s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Josh Boak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>There has been a doubling of petitions by workers to have union representation during President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, according to figures released Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There were 3,286 petitions filed with the government in fiscal 2024, up from 1,638 in 2021. <strong>This marks the first increase in unionization petitions during a presidential term since Gerald Ford\u2019s administration, which ended 48 years ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>During Trump\u2019s presidency, union petitions declined 22%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>President Joe Biden said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press that the increase showed that his administration has done more for workers than his predecessor, Donald Trump, the current Republican nominee who is vying to return to the White House in November\u2019s election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cAfter the previous administration sided with big corporations to undermine workers \u2014 from blocking overtime pay protections to making it harder to organize \u2014 my Administration has supported workers,\u201d Biden said. \u201cBecause when unions do well, all workers do well and the entire economy benefits.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Workers have also become more empowered to report what they judge to be unfair labor practices. The National Labor Relations Board said its field offices received a total of 24,578 cases last fiscal year, the most in more than a decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cThere has been a doubling of petitions by workers to have union representation during President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, according to figures released Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board.\u201d Associated Press: Petitions for union representation doubled under Biden\u2019s presidency, first increase since 1970s By: Josh Boak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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