Biden to travel next week to electrical workers union convention in Chicago

President Biden will head to an electrical workers union convention in Chicago subsequent Wednesday, a White Residence formal declared on Thursday.

“NEXT WEDNESDAY: @POTUS will travel to Chicago, Illinois to go to the 40th @IBEW Intercontinental Convention,” Matt Hill, White Residence senior associate communications director, tweeted, referring to the Worldwide Brotherhood of Electrical Staff.

Past thirty day period, Vice President Harris also achieved with the electrical personnel union in the course of the Infrastructure Grassroots Operate Week.

“We stand for generating investments in America’s long run and it will be built with union employees,” Harris explained in the course of her overall look, in accordance to the union. “Joe Biden and I know that IBEW members are performing just about every day to create the future of this country.”

A major union team, the IBEW endorsed Biden in February 2020 as a then-applicant.

Biden’s travels appear soon following the president, vice president and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh achieved with employee organizers as unionizing attempts obtain momentum at providers this kind of as Starbuck and Amazon.

Walsh and Harris “held a roundtable discussion with a various team of youthful, grassroots worker organizers to talk about their remarkable endeavours to manage unions in their workplaces, and how their attempts can encourage personnel throughout the nation to make the alternative to sign up for or organize a union,” in accordance to the White Dwelling readout.

“President Biden stopped by the dialogue and thanked the employee organizers for their leadership in arranging unions, the inspiration they offer you to personnel across the state who could want to organize, and their contributions to the employee arranging momentum that is increasing across the place,” the readout extra.

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