The labor movement has a clear choice: Move forward by building on our record wins of the last four years or go back to an all-out assault on our unions under corporate control. We’re not going back. Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz are proven, tireless advocates for working people who have ALWAYS had our backs. They share our values. That’s a big reason the energy around the Harris-Walz campaign is electric as we enter the final day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. This convention was defined by unions from the union workers who built the event to the union delegates who nominated Harris and Walz to the hotel workers and staffers who made it a one-of-a-kind experience and the speakers who put labor front and center throughout. And tonight we cap this historic convention by hearing from our endorsed candidate, a champion of working people, Kamala Harris. Working people know that this campaign is ready to fight for a future we can all believe in. Her time in the Biden administration was marked by critical federal investments in good union jobs, setting the stage for a new term that can deliver on commitments to protect working families from corporate greed, lower healthcare costs and strengthen our freedom to organize for the union contracts we deserve.
Talking Points
- As vice president to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris played a key role in executing critical policy agenda items that will be heralded as landmark for years to come. Including:
- Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, investing in good-paying union jobs, bringing manufacturing back to America and lowering prescription drug costs.
- Saving the pensions of more than 1 million union workers and retirees.
- Leading the administration’s efforts to increase access to affordable child care and 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 in solidarity with striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) members.
- 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 agricultural and domestic workers and walked the picket line with 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 banks after the 2008 financial crisis to deliver relief for struggling homeowners and protected the most vulnerable workers by tackling wage theft and other corporate crimes.