Biden touts union support on Labor Day

President Joe Biden traveled to Philadelphia on Labor Day to tout his pro-union stance and his various efforts to improve America’s middle class and the economy during the annual Tri-State Labor Day Parade.

“America’s support for union is higher today than any time in nearly 60 years,” Biden said at the parade, which was hosted by the AFL-CIO. “I’ve continued to call on Congress to fully and finally pass to Protect the Right to Organize, the PRO Act … too many companies are still playing unfair, trying to prevent organization.”

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As Biden runs for reelection, his administration and the Democratic Party have often championed “Bidenomics,” a catchphrase that encompasses their to restore the economy, as the nation continues to recover from the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m pretty sure you saw in your home what I saw in mine. Not a whole lot of trickle-down ended up on my dad’s kitchen table as he busted his neck. So we’re changing that. Replacing trickle-down economics with everyone on Wall Street is referring these days to Bidenomics. And guess what? It’s working,” the president said.

Biden has long championed himself as the most pro-union president in America’s history, which he sought to highlight during his speech in Philadelphia as more unions endorse his reelection campaign. Labor unions remain one of the most politically active Democratic constituencies, and they will be critical to Biden’s 2024 campaign.

The highly important AFL-CIO union voted to endorse Biden in June, as did the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “There’s absolutely no question that Joe Biden is the most pro-union president in our lifetimes,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said. “From bringing manufacturing jobs home to America to protecting our pensions and making historic investments in infrastructure, clean energy and education, we’ve never seen a president work so tirelessly to rebuild our economy from the bottom up and middle out.”

Biden also took subtle shots at his predecessor former President Donald Trump, who is currently the front-runner in the Republican presidential primary. “Can you believe we used to have the best infrastructure in the world, and then, we fell to No. 13 in the world?” Biden asked.

“Guess what? The great real estate builder, the last guy, he didn’t build a damn thing,” he said. “Under my predecessor, Infrastructure Week became a punch line.”

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Biden also championed a stronger America to draw a contrast with Trump, who has often said the nation is failing under Democratic control. “All I hear from my friends on the other side, what they say is wrong with America. They keep telling us America’s failing. They’re wrong,” the president said. “I’ve got news from America has the strongest economy in the world right now today. Lowest inflation rate among any major economy, 13. 5 million new jobs, and there’s no one reason for it.”

Yet Biden ultimately sought not to focus most of his speech on Trump but on his own policies and the strength of America’s future. “I’ve been doing this a long while, but I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future,” Biden later said. “We just have to remember who we are. We are the United States of America. There’s nothing, nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we work together.”