IATSE is praising the Biden administration’s latest proposals to increase union membership throughout the country. The entertainment industry is one of the most unionized workforces in the nation, …
“IATSE is proud to have been engaged by the task force to provide input during the preparation of this report and praises the recommendations that have been made,” the union said in a statement. “In particular, we are pleased to see recommendations regarding strong labor standards applied to federal grant funds, preventing and addressing worker misclassification, eliminating barriers to union eligibility for federal grants, and making the federal government a model employer.
The task force asserts that “the Biden-Harris Administration believes that increasing worker organizing and empowerment is critical to growing the middle class, building an economy that puts workers first, and strengthening our democracy.”’s belief, stated following the 2020 election, ‘that the Biden-Harris Administration will be the most significantly pro-labor, pro-worker administration in modern American history.
The report says that “Union density isn’t low because Americans don’t like unions. Today, 68% of Americans approve of labor unions – the highest level on record since 1965, and support for unions among young workers is even higher. Polls show that more and more workers – a full 52% of non-union workers – want to join unions. This gap between the percentage of workers who want a union and the percentage of workers who have a union is part of the reason for this Task Force and this report.
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