The United Auto Workers (UAW) union endorsedKamala Harrisfor US president on Wednesday, boosting the vice-president in the swing state of Michigan as her recently launched campaign ramps up.
UAW president Shawn Fain, who spoke by phone last week with Harris, praised her record “of delivering for the working class” and said she “will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in our war on corporate greed”.
The 370,000-member UAW said its executive board voted to endorse her afterendorsing Joe Biden’s re-electionbid in January. The US presidentwithdrew from the raceon 21 July.
Many UAW members live and work inMichigan, where the union is based. Biden and Donald Trump have made campaign appearances there.
AFL-CIO Unanimously Endorses Kamala Harris for President
WASHINGTON—Following a vote of its Executive Council, which represents 60 unions and 12.5 million workers, today the AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in the 2024 election.
“From day one, Vice President Kamala Harris has been a true partner in leading the most pro-labor administration in history,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “At every step in her distinguished career in public office, she’s proven herself a principled and tenacious fighter for working people and a visionary leader we can count on. From taking on Wall Street and corporate greed to leading efforts to expand affordable child care and support vulnerable workers, she’s shown time and again that she’s on our side. With Kamala Harris in the White House, together we’ll continue to build on the powerful legacy of the Biden-Harris administration to create good union jobs, grow the labor movement and make our economy work for all of us.”
As vice president, Harris:
- Played a critical role in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, investing in good-paying union jobs, bringing manufacturing back to America, lowering prescription drug costs and raising wages
- Saved the pensionsof more than 1 million union workers and retirees
- Led the administration’s efforts to increase access to affordable child careand expand the child tax credit
- Championed worker organizing and chaired the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, where she championed for new worker organizing and training to create pathways to good union jobs
- Stood with striking writers
Other highlights of Harris’ record in support of workers include the following:
- As a U.S. senator, she fought to expand labor protections and fair wages for agriculturaland domestic workersand walked the picket linewith International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) workers. She was a vigorous advocate for workers’ freedom to form or join a union, including strongly supporting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to reform broken labor legislation that stacks the deck against workers.
- As attorney general of California, she cracked down on corporate greed, took on the big banksafter the 2008 financial crisis to deliver relief for struggling homeowners and protected the most vulnerable workers by tackling wage theftand other corporate crimes.
“The AFL-CIO is proud of our earlyand steadfastsupport for the Biden-Harris administration, and now we’ll ratchet up our mass mobilization of union workers to elect Vice President Harris as president,”Shuler continued. “Like Harris, the labor movement doesn’t back down—and we’ll never shy away from a tough fight when the future of workers and unions is on the line. Together, we will defeat Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and their devastating anti-worker Project 2025 agenda in November.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, a rejoinder to Republican Donald Trump’s effort to woo restaurant and hotel workers by promising to make theirtips tax-free.
Gwen Mills, the union’s president, said Trump was merely “making a play” for votes while Harris has credibility from having supported unions. She discussed the move with The Associated Press before the union’s announcement of an endorsement.
The endorsement includes a commitment by the union to have its members knock on more than 3.3 million doors for Harris in swing states that include Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona and North Carolina.
Trump, the former president, proposed excluding tips from federal income taxes during a June 9 rally in Nevada.Both of Nevada’s Democratic senators, Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, have supported Trump’s idea, a sign of its potential popularity.
The largest flight attendant union in the United States, which represents more than 55,000 crew members at 20 airlines, including Alaska, Spirit and United Airlines, has voted unanimously to endorse Kamala Harris for President.Another Major Hollywood Union Backs Kamala Harris for President
The Writers Guild of America West endorsed the vice president in the 2024 election, after crew union IATSE and a group representing musicians did the same.
A sun-drenched crowd of union workers greeted Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday afternoon as part of a Philadelphia rally calling for new regulations to help American workers.
Speaking in the parking lot of the Sheetmetal Workers Union Hall in South Philadelphia,
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Philadelphia on Tuesday to deliver the keynote speech at the convention for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which has endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket for reelection.“Vice President Harris has been a proven ally of the IBEW,” IBEW President Kenneth W. Cooper said in a statement Monday. “Working by President Biden’s side, she cast the deciding vote to save our pensions. Their administration created good union jobs through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the American Rescue Act, the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act.”
He said Harris has been visiting IBEW job sites, union halls and training facilities for the past four years.
“She has listened to us, and we stand confident that she will continue this administration’s extraordinary record on behalf of working people when she is sworn into office next January,” Cooper said.
With 838,000 members, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is one of the country's largest unions. It was among the first major unions to endorse Harris, along with the 1.7-million member American Federation of Teachers, 700,000-member Communications Workers of America, 170,000-member International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and 100,000-member Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
