Article snippet: From the start, Biden has attempted to position himself in the crowded 2020 Democrat presidential primary field as a fighter for American union workers. For his first rally in Pennsylvania, Biden picked up endorsements from the union bosses with the state’s United Steelworkers (USW) and the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF). “I am a union man, period,” Biden told the crowd in Pennsylvania. John Defazio, former director for USW of Pennsylvania, said in an interview with Payday Report that he believes America’s working and middle class will forget about Biden’s record of supporting free trade deals like NAFTA and his promotion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “It might have [hurt Biden] a little bit, but I think people forget about that,” Defazio told Payday’s Mike Elk. NAFTA, which Biden continues to support, cost nearly five million American manufacturing workers their jobs and depressed wages for the country’s working and middle class by making it easier for multinational corporations to outsource U.S. jobs to Mexico’s low-wage economy. In 2007, Biden defended his support for NAFTA, falsely claiming the free trade deal had created more jobs than those that were lost. In Delaware, alone, NAFTA helped to eliminate nearly 17,000 U.S. jobs in the state. “Some jobs got lost. Some jobs got created. But, again, NAFTA wasn’t the problem,” Biden said at the time. Al Hart, a former organizer for United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE... Link to the full article to read more