Biden White House Uses Fuzzy Math to Tout ‘Nearly 20 Percent’ Federal Union Growth

Biden White House Uses Fuzzy Math to Tout ‘Nearly 20 Percent’ Federal Union Growth
U.S. President Joe Biden meet with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on May 23, 2022. Office of POTUS/Twitter
Benjamin Weingarten
RealClearInvestigations
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President Biden has vowed to be the “most pro-union president in history.” And one sector over which he has a lot of control is said to be bucking the decades-long trend of union decline in a big way: The ranks of unionized federal government employees swelled by nearly 80,000 to about 497,000 dues-paying members—a 20 percent increase—according to an Office of Personnel Management spokesman.

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