Executive Order Will Strengthen Worker Voices, Create Good-paying Union Jobs

Friday, September 6, 2024

United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) General President Mark McManus praised the Executive Order signed by President Joe Biden this afternoon at UA Local 190 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as another strong commitment by the Biden-Harris administration to ensuring all working families in America have a fair shot at success:

“President Joe Biden is the most pro-worker and pro-union president America has ever seen – and today’s Executive Order reaffirms his commitment to protecting the future for all American workers. With incentives to strengthen our gold-standard registered apprenticeship programs, to guarantee the rights of all workers to collectively bargain for a better future, and to expand family- sustaining wages for all, this Executive Order will help ensure all Americans have a fair shot at success,” said Mark McManus, General President of the United Association.

“President Biden took action to expand the use of project labor agreements on federal projects and to expand Davis-Bacon prevailing wage laws for the first time in generations. More importantly, President Biden kept his promise to the working men and women who build our great nation. We are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Biden-Harris administration to give all workers the chance to succeed, to provide for their families, and to one day retire with the dignity they’ve earned.”