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PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden made his seventh trip of the year to the City of Brotherly Love on Monday, telling an audience of union workers that America’s best days are ahead of it, and that support for unions is the strongest it’s been in 60 years.

“I told you when I ran for president I’d have your back, and I have,” Biden said. “There are a lot of politicians in this country who don’t know how to say the word ‘union.’ I’m proud to say the word union and I’m proud to be the most pro-union president … I make no bones about that.”

The president made his remarks at a rally outside the Sheet Metal Workers office on Columbus Boulevard, ahead of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO’s annual Labor Day parade. Despite the 80-degree temperatures and high humidity, hundreds of union workers turned out to hear the president’s Labor Day pitch....

DETROIT — Low unemployment, high rates of inflation and lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to a boom in union and strike activity in the past couple of years. And after a summer full of strikes, this fall could be no different. More than 100 strikes took place from June through August across the United States, according to the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relation's labor action tracker — nearly as many as last year's 116 and significantly more than 2021's 64 in that same time period. Workers feel empowered, according to experts. Confidence in knowing they ca......

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