Har­ris makes union pitch at UAW in Michi­gan: ‘Good to be in the house of labor’

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris sharp­ened her pitch to labor unions in a Thurs­day speech at the Unit­ed Auto Work­ers head­quar­ters.
“It’s good to be in the house of labor!” Har­ris said before a back­drop of the UAW logo super­im­posed on a cin­derblock wall.

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris, Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee, with Gov. Tim Walz (D‑MN), Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee, left, speaks at a cam­paign ral­ly at UAW Local 900, Thurs­day, August 8, 2024, in Wayne, Michi­gan. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhin­son)

Unions are tra­di­tion­al­ly strong finan­cial and orga­niz­ing back­ers of Democ­rats, and most labor groups have switched from endors­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden in this year’s elec­tion to sup­port­ing Har­ris. While Biden often called him­self the most pro-union pres­i­dent in his­to­ry, Har­ris laid out her own labor bonafides Thurs­day.
“It’s about the col­lec­tive. It’s about under­stand­ing no one should ever be made to fight alone,” Har­ris said. “I’ve fought my entire career for unions and labor because I under­stand the noble con­cept behind col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing.”
That con­cept, she con­tin­ued, is fair­ness.
“When you’re talk­ing about the indi­vid­ual and a big com­pa­ny, and you require that one indi­vid­ual to nego­ti­ate against the big com­pa­ny, how is that out­come going to be …