How Biden’s Favored Unions Could Get Jammed in His Infrastructure Traffic
By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigations:
President Biden repeatedly insists that his infrastructure plan will create millions of jobs and labor unions will be the big winners. But interviews with economists, union leaders, government officials and trade groups as well as basic math suggest otherwise.
The once dominant trade and construction unions no longer have enough members outside of their strongholds on both coasts and in the Midwest to claim most of the projected infrastructure jobs. By some estimates, two-thirds of these jobs will go to nonunion workers who dominate the construction markets in most states.
Biden, in short, appears to be harking back nostalgically to an era of union strength in the private sector that is decades gone.
