Darn right. The Democrats have their back. You'd be praising them if the backed Trump. And he'd give anything for their support. But he won't get it:
Labor unions start to unify behind Kamala Harris. Here's why.
Within hours of Kamala’s candidacy,
some of the nation’s largest unions offered an outright endorsement and others heaped Harris with praise, while acknowledging that an internal endorsement process must run its course.
The support owes to a perception of Harris as a labor ally and an heir apparent to Biden, as well as an acknowledgment of the difficulty of a shortened campaign in which
unions are eager to turn toward defeating Trump, union leaders and labor experts told ABC News.
“Labor unions are coalescing quickly around Kamala Harris,” Stuart Applebaum, president of the
Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union, which endorsed Harris, told ABC News. “We’re excited.”
The Service Employees International Union, whose 2 million members make it the nation’s largest private sector union, endorsed Harris on Sunday. So did Local 3000 of the
United Food and Commercial Workers.
On Monday, several other unions followed suit with endorsements, including the
American Federation of Teachers.
AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor organization, which boasts 60 affiliate unions with 12.5 million members, issued a statement on Sunday speaking of Harris in favorable terms but remains in the midst of its endorsement process.
The United Auto Workers, an influential union in key swing states, will likely convene its international executive board to discuss a possible endorsement, a union official said. In a statement, the official called Harris an “ally” and a “champion” for workers.'
What else would you expect?
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