President Biden delivered his State of the Union address last night to millions of working people who tuned in across the country. There were a lot of takeaways from the night, but the most important upshot is that the state of the union is union strong.
I was honored to be a guest of Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin and to join a number of other union members and leaders in the House of Representatives chamber for this speech, as the most pro-worker president of our lifetime laid out his vision for the road ahead.
Over the past four years, President Biden has championed investments in Main Street USA. Whether it’s infrastructure funding that creates quality union jobs while fixing our roads and expanding our broadband access, protecting the rights of working people through a strong Department of Labor and National Labor Relations Board or ensuring the ultra rich and corporations pay their fair share in taxes, Biden’s commitment to workers is clearer than ever.
And he plans on doing even more in his second term: putting the middle class first so that we grow our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down; protecting reproductive rights and critical programs like Social Security and Medicare; defending our freedom to join together in unions; and delivering real meaningful wins for our communities.
The future is bright when workers are at the center of policy agendas, have a voice in decision-making and have a seat at the table. And with President Biden, those things are certain.
