{"id":106488,"date":"2024-07-23T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/labor-unions-start-to-unify-behind-kamala-harris-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:05:03","slug":"labor-unions-start-to-unify-behind-kamala-harris-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/labor-unions-start-to-unify-behind-kamala-harris-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor unions start to unify behind Kamala Harris. Here’s why."},"content":{"rendered":"
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(WASHINGTON) — Randi Weingarten, head of the 1.7-million member American Federation of Teachers and a close ally of President Joe Biden, said she\u2019d forgotten to bring something on stage with her at the union\u2019s national convention in Houston, Texas on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have tissues — I should, unfortunately,\u201d Weingarten said, before thanking Biden for his achievements. A day earlier, Weingarten had been among the first labor leaders to express support for the newly announced presidential candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

“As you can imagine, my speech changed a lot in the last few days,” Weingarten told the audience.<\/p>\n

The sentiment reflects a bittersweet moment for organized labor, a key part of the Democratic coalition, which has indicated widespread support for Harris after remaining an ally of Biden up until his decision to step aside.<\/p>\n

Within hours of Kamala\u2019s candidacy, some of the nation\u2019s largest unions offered an outright endorsement and others heaped Harris with praise, while acknowledging that an internal endorsement process must run its course.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The onrush to back Harris is part of wider movement among Democratic Party leaders and elected officials that has made her an overwhelming front-runner for the nomination. No challenger has emerged as the party hurtles toward its convention next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cLabor unions are coalescing quickly around Kamala Harris,\u201d Stuart Applebaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union, which endorsed Harris, told ABC News. \u201cWe\u2019re excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Service Employees International Union, whose 2 million members make it the nation\u2019s largest private sector union, endorsed Harris on Sunday. So did Local 3000 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, a labor organization in the Pacific Northwest, which drew attention last week when it became the only Biden-aligned union to call for him to step aside.<\/p>\n

On Monday, several other unions followed suit with endorsements, including the American Federation of Teachers.<\/p>\n

Additional unions have released statements lauding Harris but stopping short of an outright endorsement as the organizations undergo a formal process for granting support.<\/p>\n

AFL-CIO, the nation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say things are moving pretty quickly,\u201d Steve Smith, deputy director of public affairs at AFL-CIO, told ABC News, noting that several of the affiliate unions had endorsed Harris. \u201cShe has close ties to many, many unions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cally\u201d and a \u201cchampion\u201d for workers. UAW had previously endorsed Biden.<\/p>\n

Still, at least one Biden-aligned labor leader voiced reluctance to join his peers in backing Harris. John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union, described the public push to remove Biden from the Democratic ticket as a \u201cbetrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did it in a way that tarnishes Biden and I don\u2019t like it,\u201d Samuelsen told ABC News.<\/p>\n

Samuelsen said he wants to wait to see who joins Harris as her vice presidential nominee, assuming she becomes the nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a relationship with her,\u201d he added. \u201cI got to know Biden pretty well. I have faith in Biden that he wouldn\u2019t screw transport sector workers. At this point, workers have been betrayed so many times by both parties that it doesn\u2019t make any sense not to be as prudent as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Teamsters, a 1.3-million member union whose President Sean O\u2019Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention last week, has not released a statement about Harris. The union has not traditionally endorsed a candidate until after both major party conventions, a spokesperson told ABC News.<\/p>\n

On the whole, unions have come out in support of Harris not only because of Biden\u2019s perceived strength with organized labor but also the limited time remaining in the campaign, Johnnie Kallas, a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois, told ABC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is we\u2019re three-and-half-months out from Election Day,\u201d Kallas said. \u201cIf this was a conversation, it should have been had a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

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