As the first female president of the United States’ largest labor federation, I’m proud to support the vice-president
‘I proudly worked with the affiliated union leaders of the AFL-CIO to present a unanimous endorsement for Harris, just 24 hours after she announced her candidacy.’‘I proudly worked with the affiliated union leaders of the AFL-CIO to present a unanimous endorsement for Harris, just 24 hours after she announced her candidacy.’The 6.6 million union women in this country – nearly half of today’s labor movement – know an ally when we see one.
One of the first people to reach out was Harris. She expressed her condolences, full of the same empathy and compassion that the whole country has now seen in her campaign. We talked about our common bond as women who had come up in male-dominated fields and what it means to her to be able to fight for working women as vice-president.
Because so much is at stake for women and all workers, I proudly worked with the affiliated union leaders of the AFL-CIO to present a unanimous endorsement from our federation for Harris, just 24 hours after she announced her candidacy.
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