Unions spent an estimated minimum of about $1.7 billion dollars during the 2022 midterm election cycle, as President Joe Biden is courting unions and will rely on their support for the 2024 presidential election, according to data on 2022 election spending from the National Institute for Labor Relations Research.
Unions' direct spending dwarfed the PACs' donations on the 2022 midterm elections.
On Labor Day last Monday, Biden said during a speech to Philadelphia union workers that he was "Proud to be the most pro-union president in American history."
The White House released a fact sheet on Sept. 1 about Biden's pro-union policies, such as "Demonstrating the Union Advantage" by showing "How unions benefit the economy" and "Supporting Workers' Right to Organize," which included relaunching the Worker Organizing Resource and Knowledge Center, "The federal government's premiere online resource center providing information about labor unions and their importance to workers and communities."
Biden won major endorsements from union leaders in the 2020 presidential election, but many rank-and-file members supported Trump.
The AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and other unions have already endorsed Biden for the 2024 presidential election, according to The Hill.
Biden has been criticized by some union activists for signing legislation that prevented a nationwide rail strike in December and in June apologized for "Crossing a digital picket line" according to union members after referencing coverage from the news outlet Insider, whose reporters were on strike at the time.
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