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By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—In a move that is widely expected to boost voter turnout and push Donald Trump out of office in less than 83 days, presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris yesterday as his vice presidential running mate. The selection is being widely lauded not just by Black women but by broad swaths of labor and all its allied movements.
Harris, who’s been a senator for the last three years, has a 100% pro-worker voting record, according to the nation’s largest labor federation.
“Kamala Harris has spent her career tackling some of the most critical issues facing working families,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement just minutes after the announcement by Biden.
“As California’s Attorney General, she held big banks accountable in the wake of the housing crisis, prosecuted employers for stealing our wages, and advanced criminal justice reform.” When the guilty parties offered $3 billion to make up for their crimes against workers, Harris rejected that offer, took them to court, and forced them to pay out $18 billion.
“As a senator, she has achieved a perfect AFL-CIO lifetime score, working to create a fairer process for forming a union and protecting our health care and retirement security,” Trumka declared. “We look forward to electing her America’s next vice president....
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