Biden the best Labor President since FDR

• First President to stand the picket line with Union workers while the other guy said they should be fired

• Antitrust enforcement has surged. Monopoly busting has begun with the FTC, the Antitrust Division of Justice, and the NLRB without much notice in the press.

• Efforts to form unions have been protected and encouraged.

• 800k new manufacturing jobs

• Wages increased 3.8%

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IM5688 · 61-69, M

What jobs did Biden create?
Mostly gov't, (like the IRS,) and union jobs.
Not jobs for the average American.
And yes, wages increased. They had to increase to offset Bidenflation.
Why not look at all the major corporations and companies that have been or are currently laying off workers thanks to Biden. Even the union automakers are going to layoff workers due their massive loss of trying to push and manufacture EV's becaause of Biden.

JonLosAngeles66 · M

@IM5688 350k jobs last month. 14 million since he took office.

IM5688 · 61-69, M

@JonLosAngeles66 Those are the published figures. Later, they come out with the real figures and it's always lower. Oh, and most of those jobs were people returning to work after the pandemic and those returning to the office after working from home.

JonLosAngeles66 · M

@IM5688 physically working onsite isn't considered a new job

ElwoodBlues · M

@IM5688 WRONG!! Job creation and employment numbers are what Trump used to crow about regularly, And they are calculated the same way now.

[quote] [b]News: Unemployment is at its Lowest Level in 54 years[/b]
517,000 jobs added ; 3.4% unemployment rate. [/quote] https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2023/02/news-unemployment-its-lowest-level-54-years And yes, these are the same statistics that Trump used to crow about.

The Covid jobs recovery is complete and then some

Yeah, that data is a little old; here's data from the most recent months

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@JonLosAngeles66 [quote]physically working onsite isn't considered a new job[/quote]

Opening a temporarily shut down job isn't 'creating' either.

And forcing ppl to pick up second jobs in order to survive isn't a good thing either. 😒

SatyrService · M

@IM5688 and what is wrong with Union Jobs
UNIONS stopped kid labor and gave YOU the 40 hour week

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@SatyrService unions were certainly good and useful.....100 years ago. Nowadays they only act to extort companies and make the union bosses fat and happy.

IM5688 · 61-69, M

@SatyrService Yes, in the beginning unions did a lot to shape the labor laws in this country. They stopped the 70-80 work weeks, they put a stop to child labor, and they got companies to pay for sick time, vacation time and medical benefits. That's when unions did something positive.
Now, unions do nothing more than drive the costs up for companies which are passed onto the consumer. The guy at your local tire shop maybe makes $15 -$20 an hour for mounting tires on your car, while the UAW union guy doing the same job is making $35 an hour.
Look at the road workers. 1 guy working and 6 others standing around doing nothing and making $30-$40 an hour.
Today, unions are like a legalized protection racket. They tell companies to give employees what they want, or we go on strike and possibly put you out of business. And of course, the unions make tons of money for themselves buy collecting union dues from employees.
Sorry, you can't sell me on today's unions.

SatyrService · M

@IM5688 indeed many unions have become corrupt
but they can be brought back in line
like to be a Union Officer? YOU gotta Still work a union JOB
in infiltration by "certain Kinds of People"
and attracting those that just want to BE the bosses
I am hopeful
but they need to clean up their act
they need to be more open to more industries
and strikes? those should be a last resort, AFter negotioations

anythingoes477 · M

@IM5688 Riiight the 13 million jobs created in the last 3 1/2 years are just IRS jobs. ;-) ;-) ;-)

And wages DO NOT increase to offset inflation. Wage increases has the downside of CAUSING inflation.

And your last comment "what they are going to do".........100% guesswork based on your limited knowledge of both economics and the business world.........and an overdose of conspiracy theories.

Better go back to YouTube. About 99% of what you say is laughably uninformed.

SatyrService · M

@anythingoes477
I am not fond of Joe Biden.. but can see some improvement

just IRS jobs? yeah they lost so many people due to budget cuts TO the IRS that the attention to tax evasion has fallen off
you cant GET to talk to a real agent,, just "customer service" who are not allowed to tell you many answers
I give away free tax help, and now, i must go to a local office in order to get to an actual informed and trained agent
As of the end of 2022, [b]18.6 million[/b] individual taxpayers owed the Internal Revenue Service [b]$316 billion in overdue taxes[/b]
so hiring such,, will REDUCE out national Budget problems

Remember too, that the overwhelming majority of "aid To Ukraine, is spent HERE on US made things and thus Jobs
Monthly non-farm payrolls grew by 232,000 per month on average in 2023, 55,000 more jobs per month than the average pace in 2018 and 2019. As a result, total job gains achieved under the Biden administration reached 14.1 million through November 2023. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate has, to date, stayed below 4% for 22 [i]straight months, a run not seen in more than 50 years[/i]