Six major labor union presidents have pledged support for Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Zack Dunn, a delegate and union worker from Columbia, is all in for Harris because he said that she is fighting for working families.
“Through the Infrastructure and Chips Act,” he told Missourinet. “Through, you know, the Inflation Reduction Act. You know, there’s so many good pieces of legislation that they’ve done that has helped us bring jobs back to this country, bring jobs back to Missouri.”
Dunn said that Project 2025 is how he will sell the Harris presidential ticket to his part of the state. Project 2025 is an effort to reshape the federal government and its power to reflect right-leaning policies.
“They want to eliminate overtime by eliminating the 40-hour work week,” he said. “They want to attack; they want to pass right-to-work laws across the country. They want to attack prevailing wages. These are things that help create union jobs, good family paying jobs and so, you know, once we talk about this, they quickly realize how bad Trump is going to be for the working class.”
Despite labor unions traditionally being tied at the hip with the Democratic Party, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention.
According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 60% of union members are registered Democrats, but 39% are registered as Republicans.
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