Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday visited a union training facility in battleground Michigan, hoping to galvanize union workers to vote for her just over a week until Election Day.
Harris stopped by the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades training facility, joined by guests, including Sen. Gary Peters and other state and local leaders.
Harris shook hands and spoke with several instructors and apprentices inside the facility. Following the tour, she walked into another rooms filled with union workers to applause.
After she shook several workers’ hands, one told her: “Thank you for saving our pensions. Thank you for the Inflation Reduction Act. Thank you for everything you’ve done for us.”
Harris told the workers: “This is highly skilled work. You do it with a sense of pride. You do it with a sense of commitment. You are making our country stronger and better by the work that you do.”
She later added: “You know, my opponent, he doesn’t understand the importance of unions at all. He gives a lot of mouth – he gives a lot of talk about what he cares about, but on the issue specifically of what is good for unions and union labor, he’s been awful.”
