President Biden addressed the economy and labor rights in an address Tuesday to the AFL–CIO convention as delegates elected Liz Shuler to become the AFL-CIO’s first female president and Fred Redmond to be its first African American secretary-treasurer. Longtime labor journalist Steven Greenhouse was there, and says the exclusion of organizers from Amazon and Starbucks from the convention disappointed those calling for the AFL–CIO and Democratic lawmakers to support the youth-led labor movement.

This post was originally published on Democracy Now!.