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Biden’s Good-Paying Union Jobs? Here’s How to Get Them

Posted On: May 11, 2021

May 11, 2021 | OPINION | […] My instinct — and, I presume, that of the United Auto Workers and the entire labor movement — is that the same criteria that informed the living-wage ordinances that were enacted in hundreds of municipalities in the early years of this century should apply here: If the government is spending the public’s tax dollars to help industries and create jobs, those have to be good jobs, with decent wages and benefits. And if the administration is given discretion to administer the EV funding, it should be able to condition it not only on auto companies’ compliance with wage and hour and benefit rules, but also on their agreeing to staying neutral should their workers choose to seek a union… American Prospect