Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is touting her role in helping the Biden administration become “the most pro-labor administration in history” ahead of a slate of nationwide events showcasing support for her campaign from labor groups, punctuated by President Joe Biden and Harris hosting a joint event in Pittsburgh.
The campaign is highlighting Harris casting the deciding vote to advance the 2021 Covid stimulus package and to pass the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, along with her support for unions as a senator and as California’s attorney general ahead of her visit to Detroit on Monday, where she’ll appear alongside union leaders and members ahead of her appearance in Pittsburgh.
The Harris campaign reiterated her promise to sign the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a bill expanding protections for workers’ rights to collectively bargain.
“Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are fighting for a future where every worker can join a union and bargain for better wages, better benefits, and better lives. The Harris-Walz administration will work with Congress to pass the PRO Act, and when it reaches the Vice President’s desk she will sign it,” the campaign said.
The Harris campaign is also drawing a contrast with former President Donald Trump’s record as “one of the most anti-worker and anti-union presidents in history,” and pointing to proposals outlined in the conservative policy document Project 2025 to suggest a second Trump administration will hurt workers.
“A second Trump presidency would be even worse for working Americans – his extreme and dangerous Project 2025 agenda will raise taxes on typical working families by nearly $4,000 a year, allow employers to stop paying many workers overtime, and roll back labor and workplace protections. That contrast is why unions have overwhelmingly come out in support of the Harris-Walz ticket,” the campaign said.
Harris will be joined in Michigan by American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, National Education Association president Becky Pringle, and United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain. Some of the largest unions in the country will have national and local leaders present at both the Michigan and Pennsylvania events as well as Gov. Tim Walz’s visit to Milwaukee, including the AFL-CIO, the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers, and the Service Employees International Union, among others.
