Reported by Rebecca Rainey, Ian Kullgren and Diego Areas MunhActing Labor Secretary Julie Su has spent the start of 2024 on the road, stumping on behalf of the Biden administration’s workforce investments and promoting the most “pro-union” president in modern history, just as the presidential race begins to heat up.
Already this year, she’s traveled to Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Connecticut, Nevada, Alabama, and Wisconsin, and made at least two speeches at events in D.C.
“Acting Secretary Julie Su has been crisscrossing the country talking with workers, employers, and leaders about the historic investments of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Grace Hagerty, deputy press secretary at the DOL, said in a statement to PI. “In her conversations, Acting Secretary Su highlights the good jobs and equitable opportunities created under President Biden’s leadership, and the transformative power of a good job on our communities.”
Last week, Su spoke to a room of union leaders about women leaders in the transportation sector at a soiree hosted at the AFL-CIO headquarters to celebrate Shari Semelsberger, secretary-treasurer of the federation’s Transportation Trades Department. She spent plenty of time afterward mingling with AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and other bigwigs.oz for Bloomberg Government.
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