Joe Biden Unveils Labor Plan in Appeal to Middle Class Voters

  • He says the government should encourage workers to organize
  • Rivals to his left, Warren and Sanders, champion working class
Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Muscatine, Iowa on Oct. 23.Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Joe Biden is proposing a wide array of ideas aimed at helping workers unionize and protecting their rights as he seeks to show voters that he will fight for them in ways that he says President Donald Trump has not.

The Democratic presidential candidate on Friday released a series of pledges aimed at countering what his campaign calls “the abuse of corporate power over labor,” while also encouraging workers to organize. Some of the measures build on existing legislation or efforts by the Obama administration.