BUSINESS MANAGER’S REPORT IBEW Local 103 has endorsed Joe Biden because Joe can challenge Donald Trump in traditional blue-collar areas like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. In fact, Biden is polling very well in those states, as well as in New Hampshire, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona. Under a Biden administration, we would see a union revival with the potential to undo decades of policies which have diminished our influence and our right to organize, all while valuing corporate interests over those of workers.
From Lou Antonellis Business Manager / Financial Secretary IBEW Local 103
A compassionate man, Joe Biden is the only candidate who can unite the country at a time of deep division. Joe has always listened to, fought alongside, and delivered for unions and working people. Through close consultation with the IBEW, Joe Biden has developed a comprehensive energy plan. He will invest $400 billion in energy research and innovation to build the industries of the future: carbon capture, grid scale storage, and advanced nuclear. Joe Biden supports the PRO Act, protecting the right to organize and bargain collectively. Donald Trump hates unions! Joe Biden will demand prevailing wages and labor protections on all federally-supported infrastructure projects. Trump opposes them and has not produced a national infrastructure plan in his four years as president. Joe Biden supports the Butch Lewis Act, which will help troubled pension plans. Trump and the Republicans have made it clear that they want to dismantle healthy pensions, like IBEW Local 103’s, at every single opportunity they’ve had. It is clear: they aren’t coming after our guns, they’re coming after our pensions! Joe Biden will ban Right to Work! Trump champions Right to Work (RTW) and is assembling a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court to ensure that RTW and other anti-worker stances become national policy. Joe Biden will create a cabinet-level position that will focus solely on promoting organizing and collective bargaining. Trump’s Labor Secretary is Eugene Scalia, the most anti-union management attorney and the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. His current Supreme Court appointee clerked for Scalia and shares his conservative values, especially when it comes to anti-union issues like prevailing wage and RTW. Joe Biden has appointed IBEW President Lonnie Stevenson to serve on his transition team advisory board – one of our own! He is also expected to put a Union leader in his cabinet, as if we needed more proof on where Biden stands! Joe stands with the IBEW at every level. When it comes to IBEW jobs and the interests of our members, the choice is clear: the choice for Local 103 is Joe Biden. Fraternally,
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