FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2024
July 23, 2024
Contact:
Brittany Holder
202-297-7244
[email protected]
AFGE Endorses Kamala Harris for President
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing 750,000 federal and D.C. government employees nationwide, is proud to announce that our National Executive Council has voted unanimously to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the next president of the United States, reaffirming our previous endorsement.
During her time in the U.S. Senate, she stood shoulder-to-shoulder with AFGE to secure critical PPE and sick leave for front-line workers during a pandemic, keep the government funded to prevent a disastrous shutdown, secure much-needed compensation for victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, defend safe staffing levels and collective bargaining rights across federal agencies, protect the diversity and human rights offices of federal agencies, and nominate pro-union justices to the Supreme Court. As vice president, she has led important work on the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, delivering results for working people across the country, and has been an important voice for change.
We look forward to working with Vice President Harris and her running mate to repudiate the dark future outlined for our country in Project 2025 and continue delivering results for the American people.
Throughout AFGE's presidential endorsement process, and in the many months since, AFGE members have made clear that their top priority in 2024 is defeating Donald Trump and stopping anti-worker efforts like Project 2025. During his first term, his administration implemented many anti-worker, anti-union policies that threatened our union and the frontline government workers we represent. Another Trump administration would be a threat to our union, our democracy, our rights, and our freedoms.
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