Unions won big in 2023. With Biden's help. So the blue collar workers doing the best are in union companies and blue states.
Auto unions, writers, casino workers, healthcare workers. All these union workers got raises last year. Millions of workers.
And my nephew does commercial construction. He's a project manager/intern while going to school. He bosses the manual labor around. He told me they've been on strick most of the summer. They make low $20's and they want high $20's. An hour. That's like $58,000 a year. That's above the median wage in Michigan.
This is how the middle class fixes itself. And they had Biden's support. Trump didn't support the unions in 2023 when they went on strike.
Yes, union contracts negotiated in 2023 resulted in higher wages for unionized workers, with the average first-year increase reaching 6.6%. This was the highest average pay raise since Bloomberg Law began tracking union wage settlements in 1988, and when including signing bonuses and other lump-sum payments, the average figure was 7.3%, also a record high.