Unions Spend Big to Push Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan

Unions representing teachers, service employees and communication workers are among those deploying lobbyists to Capitol Hill and bankrolling multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns

WASHINGTON—Labor unions are lobbying to secure Democratic support for President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending package, which funds long-sought union priorities and provisions intended to strengthen organized labor.

Unions representing teachers, service employees, communication workers and others are among those deploying lobbyists to Capitol Hill and bankrolling multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns to pressure undecided Democrats to vote for the measure when congressional leaders bring it up in the weeks ahead.

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