Biden sells blue-collar workers the American Dream of a failing China
by Business Insider
Business Insider— President Joe Biden on Wednesday pitched his version of US-China relations to steelworkers in Pennsylvania — that Beijing isn't only failing to catch up, but struggling on its own.As he spoke at the US Steelworkers union headquarters in Pittsburgh, the president's hyperbolic rhetoric sounded almost Trump-esque."They've got a population that is more people in retirement than working," Biden said of China. "They're not importing anything. They're xenophobic. Nobody else coming in. They've got real...
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USA Today—New Biden rule would make 4 million white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay. Overtime pay would cover 4 million more workers by January 1 under a new Biden administration rule that boosts the salary threshold for exemption
Labor 411—A Great Week for American Workers. The following piece by Harold Meyerson originally appeared in The American Prospect. Over the past 50 years, you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of weeks that have actually been great for American workers. It was just under half a century ago that California gave collective-bargaining rights to farmworkers (which at… Source