This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Batcheter. The Biden administration running for re-election, the most pro-union in history, quoteunquote I welcome Verenique to regime writing about

unions in the age of Biden administration the most pro-union and how they're fairing

there are two categories I learned from

Verneek to pay attention to. There's the private union that would be the

steel workers or the UAW and there's the public union that would be

people who work at the office, AFSCME, across the country.

They are very different in their approaches,

and that has to do with the fact who are they going to bargain with when and if there's conflict.

Varenika, very good evening to you. I want to start with the private side because that's the most famous.

Those are the songs of the late 19th early 20th century. The UAW,

certainly the Teamsters. Is there reason to believe that their morale has been

raised by the Biden administration are they

cheerful in recruiting these days good evening to you good evening John well I mean they

certainly have had uh we've heard from them a lot in the past year and they've had

some victory. I mean we know the auto, the United Auto worker, the UAW, I mean they've got many strikes on nice year.

They managed to negotiate a wage hike of 25%.

They made also with different car companies. They certainly, we also, there was also the

Hollywood strike which was, which successfully negotiated and you know they they have seen

their enrollment go up certainly the the UAW has in the last year but as a share of the economy it's still

declining it's like as a share of employment it's still like it's an all-time

low union and union. It's like 10%.

The UAW was 1.5 million in 1970. I had no idea the number was that large. Of course I was younger then and wasn't paying attention to numbers like that, but they now 400,000 in 2020, 370,000 last year.

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