Construction workers union endorses Harris

The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) voted unanimously to endorse Vice President Harris’s presidential run, becoming the latest labor organization to throw its support behind the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

The major construction workers union joins the more than half-dozen national labor organizations to endorse Harris.

“Vice President Harris has been a key partner in leading the most pro-union White House ever,” LIUNA General President Brent Booker said in a statement Thursday.

“She played a critical role in advancing the biggest investment in our nation’s infrastructure in modern times, and in doing so is helping to create hundreds of thousands of good union jobs.”

Booker pointed to the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act in helping make renewable energy jobs into family-supporting union jobs, along with Harris’s support of the American Rescue Plan, which helped secure the pensions of union workers and retirees.

“Kamala Harris is the strong, trailblazing leader America needs. As a tough, seasoned prosecutor, she has the intelligence, skills and tenacity to win against a dangerous convicted felon who hopes to use lies and hate to return to the White House. She will keep President Biden’s torch alive and shining bright,” Booker wrote.

LIUNA previously backed Biden and launched a seven-figure advertisement earlier this year highlighting the incumbent and his infrastructure investments.

Booker said the endorsement of Harris was a unanimous vote among union members and expressed confidence Harris will continue fighting for union rights.

A few notable unions with large presences in key swing states, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Auto Workers (UAW), have yet to endorse the vice president’s Oval Office bid.

UAW President Shawn Fain, who endorsed Biden’s since-suspended run back in January, said his union was “not going to rush” the backing of Harris.

Since launching her campaign shortly after Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed her, Harris has quickly picked up support from Democratic lawmakers and leaders across the nation and several major political fundraising groups.

She also crossed the threshold to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, receiving more than 1,968 delegate endorsements less than two days after Biden dropped out of the race.