{"id":35909,"date":"2024-09-03T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=35909"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:25:39","slug":"on-labor-day-champions-of-working-class-vow-to-defeat-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/on-labor-day-champions-of-working-class-vow-to-defeat-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"On Labor Day, Champions of Working Class Vow to Defeat Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris shakes hands with a worker in this photo posted on social media by the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign on September 2, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Kamala Harris\/Facebook)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The facts are clear: Democrats are the party of labor, and the Biden-Harris administration has been the most pro-labor administration in our lifetime,” said a pair of supporters.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 02, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Labor Day holiday as a backdrop, U.S. union leaders on Monday reiterated their message that a Democratic administration led by Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> would offer far better policies for workers than a Republican one with former President Donald Trump<\/a> at the helm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Echoing Harris’ resonant “We are not going back” campaign slogan, Communications Workers of America president Claude Cummings Jr. said<\/a> that “we are not going back because we have the opportunity to elect Kamala Harris, a true champion for working people, who has a vision for the future where we all have more control over our own lives, not less.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Last month, as our members at AT&T Southeast were preparing to go on strike, Donald Trump laughed<\/a> with notorious union buster Elon Musk about firing striking workers,” he continued. “Today that would be illegal, but if he’s elected president, Trump will have the plan and the power to take us back to a time when it wasn’t.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Donald Trump’s allies, including many people he appointed to serve in his administration, want to take us back to the days before the NLRA,” he contended, referring to the landmark National Labor Relations Act <\/a>signed into law by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. “Their dangerous, extremist agenda, detailed in a handbook known as Project 2025, calls for increasing corporate control<\/a> over workers. They want to appoint [National Labor Relations Board] members who will stop enforcing large parts of the NLRA, including the ban on company unions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris, who was in Detroit Monday, said<\/a>: “On Labor Day, we honor workers, unions, and the entire labor movement fighting for fair wages, good benefits, and safer working conditions for all. As president, I will always stand with workers, because when unions are strong, the middle class is strong. And when the middle class is strong, America is strong.“<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kamala Harris in Detroit on Labor Day: "You better thank a union member for the 5 day work week. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time." pic.twitter.com\/AjE6WrqsZi<\/a><\/p>— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>