Joe Biden is trying to win back union, working-class voters in the Midwest who helped President Trump win the election in 2016. Trump is making the pitch that he’s saved American manufacturing, but the numbers suggest otherwise. hereandnow
from February, after the coronavirus pandemic slashed the 500,000 jobs gained during Trump’s first three years in office, which was on par with the pace of growth under former President Obama.
Zach Menke, a member of the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, and a pipefitter who works at the Husky refinery in Lima, Ohio, agrees that his coworkers have grown more divided. While Petrowski admits Biden has a “tough climb” ahead in his bid to win over union workers, he says he thinks Biden can convince many of them with his plan to bring good-paying union jobs back to the U.S.
“Our shop definitely was on the uptick. We hired 100 people. So we went from 140ish people to 250,” he says. “But here we are, 2020 in October now, and we're down over 100 people. We actually have less people working than we did during that rise.”
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