Labor News & Commentary March 21, 2024 Senate voted to confirm Nicole Berner, a former labor lawyer, as a federal judge

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By Divya Nimmagadda

Divya Nimmagadda is a student at Harvard Law School.

he United Steelworkers Union (USW) has officially endorsed President Biden in his 2024 reelection bid. This endorsement comes on the heels of Biden’s vocal opposition to the sale of U.S. Steel, the nation’s second largest steel manufacturer, to Nippon Steel in Japan. In alignment with his larger effort to make American-based manufacturing central to his reelection platform – a concept he gave several nods to during the State of the Union address – Biden stated that “U.S. Steel has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated.” The USW represents 850,000 workers in metals, mining, rubber and rail among other industries, and had endorsed Biden in 2020 as well. The USW president, David McCall, remarked that Biden’s “vision and leadership” supported the members’ wishes for “retirement security, affordable health care and labor laws that support our ability to form unions and negotiate strong contracts.” President Biden, who has repeatedly referred to himself as the “most pro-union president in American history,” has also received support from other major unions including United Auto Workers, SEIU and the AFL-CIO, though he is still waiting on backing from the Teamsters after meeting with the union last week.

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