(WWJ) — The United Auto Workers union on Wednesday endorsed Kamala Harris for President of the United States.
The UAW’s International Executive Board voted Wednesday to endorse Harris, saying her “historic candidacy builds on the Biden-Harris administration’s proven track record of standing with the UAW and delivering major gains for the working class.”
The Harris campaign will make a stop in Detroit next Wednesday for a rally with UAW members, Michigan voters and “thousands of working class people who are fighting for a better future,” UAW officials said in a release Wednesday.
Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency after President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid earlier this month.
“Our job in this election is to defeat Donald Trump and elect Kamala Harris to build on her proven track record of delivering for the working class,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a release. “We stand at a crossroads in this country. We can put a billionaire back in office who stands against everything our union stands for, or we can elect Kamala Harris who will stand shoulder to shoulder with us in our war on corporate greed.”
Fain said the Harris campaign is “bringing together people from all walks of life, building a movement that can defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box.”
Last fall the UAW carried out the first-ever so-called “Stand Up Strike,” lasting more than six weeks as the union fought for better wages and benefits. Biden joined striking workers on the picket lines last year.
The UAW on Wednesday noted that Harris walked the picket line with striking workers in 2019 and that she has “taken on corporate price-gouging and profiteering, and has spoken out and voted against unfair trade deals that hurt the American worker like NAFTA and NAFTA 2.0, the USMCA.”
Back in January the UAW endorsed Biden, who accepted it with a speech at a union political convention in Washington, D.C.
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