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

President Biden will head to an electrical personnel union conference in Chicago subsequent Wednesday, a White Property official announced on Thursday.

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

Previous thirty day period, Vice President Harris also met with the electrical personnel union throughout the Infrastructure Grassroots Perform Week.

“We stand for making investments in America’s future and it will be designed with union employees,” Harris reported throughout her look, according to the union. “Joe Biden and I know that IBEW associates are performing every single day to establish the foreseeable future of this region.”

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

Biden’s travels occur shortly just after the president, vice president and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh achieved with worker organizers as unionizing efforts acquire momentum at businesses this sort of as Starbuck and Amazon.

Walsh and Harris “held a roundtable dialogue with a assorted group of young, grassroots worker organizers to focus on their incredible endeavours to arrange unions in their workplaces, and how their initiatives can inspire staff across the place to make the choice to join or organize a union,” in accordance to the White Home readout.

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

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