Harris and Walz show their support for organized labor with appearance at Detroit union hall
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are showing their support for organized labor by appearing at a Detroit-area union hall
WAYNE, Mich. — Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, played up their support for organized labor at a Detroit-area union hall on Thursday, with the Democratic nominee saying “we're all in this together” as the new ticket lavishes attention on a crucial base of support.
Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Walz, who joined the ticket on Tuesday, spoke Thursday to about 100 United Auto Workers members at Local 900 Hall, which represents Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant. The stop occurred shortly after Republican nominee Donald Trump held a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida.
As she proclaimed that it was “good to be in the house of labor," Harris described the value of unions, saying they were “about understanding that no one should be made to fight alone” and that “hard work is good work.”
“We have fun doing hard work, because we know what we stand for,” she said. «When you know what you stand for, you know what to fight for. We know what we stand for, and we stand for the people and we stand for the dignity of work, and we stand for freedom. We stand for justice. We stand for equality.
She continued: “And so we will fight for all of it.”
Walz, riffing off a favorite line of President Joe Biden, told the labor crowd that „we know that unions built the middle class.
“The rest of America has to,” Walz added.
The members at Local 900 were the first Ford workers to strike in 2023 when the union’s contract with the company expired. Workers at the assembly plant went on strike Sept. 15 and remained on the
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