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President Biden visits Philly shipyard as he courts organized labor and pushes green jobs

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By JOSH BOAK and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has paid a visit to Philadelphia’s shipyard to make a pitch that unions will be building America’s renewable energy future. He’s courting organized labor at a moment when some major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth he wants to campaign on in 2024. The president toured the shipyard on Thursday where there was a steel-cutting ceremony for a vessel needed to build offshore wind farms. Biden ticked through the various union jobs being created by the project. Biden said his frends in organized labor know that “when I think climate, I think jobs.”

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