The United Auto Workers (UAW) union endorsed Vice President Harris in the next presidential election on Wednesday.
Sean Fain, president of the United American Laborers (UAW), praised Harris ahead of her planned rally with union members on August 7 and criticized former Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“Our job in this election is to defeat Donald Trump and elect Kamala Harris, a Democrat with a proven track record of serving the working class,” Fain said in a statement.
“Our country is at a crossroads: we can either put a billionaire back in power who opposes everything our union stands for, or we can elect Kamala Harris who will fight side by side with us in the fight against corporate greed,” Fain added.
Fain and Trump have been sparring publicly for months, with Trump calling for Fain’s firing during a speech at the Republican National Convention and the UAW firing back on social platform X, calling the former president a “billionaire strikebreaker.”
Last week, Fein praised Harris for walking the picket line with UAW workers in 2019, saying then-President Trump “certainly wasn’t on the picket line.”
The UAW’s support ends weeks of speculation about whether the union would endorse Harris after Biden, who the UAW endorsed in January, withdrew from the election on July 21.
Biden endorsed Harris after she withdrew, and the party has largely indicated it will back her ahead of next month’s Democratic National Convention.
She also secured endorsements from major labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, the United Steelworkers, the American Federation of Teachers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the International Union of Electrical Workers. Another major labor union, the United Teamsters, has yet to endorse her.
“This campaign is building a movement that can bring together people from all walks of life and defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box. For our one million active and retired members, the choice is clear: we will elect Kamala Harris as our next president in November,” Fain said.
