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7/26/24
ILWU International Executive Board Endorses Kamala Harris for President
The Executive Board of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) endorsed
Vice President Kamala Harris for President in a special meeting on July 25.
Executive Board members cited Vice President Harris’ long history with the ILWU, and her
support for workers and the labor movement as California Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and
Vice President in the most pro-labor administration in U.S. history.
The ILWU also extends our thanks and deep gratitude to President Joe Biden for his leadership
and his commitment to organized labor and the membership of the ILWU.
Since taking office, the Biden-Harris Administration has centered the interests of workers,
championed collective bargaining rights and labor unions, passed landmark legislation that will
create millions of good-paying jobs, invested billions of dollars in our country’s infrastructure,
and rescued the failing economy they inherited from Donald Trump.
The Biden-Harris Administration helped to bring much-needed stability to the country after four
years of chaos and failure under the Donald Trump Administration.
Lest we forget, during his four years in office, Donald Trump attacked the rights of workers,
appointed union-busting consultants to the National Labor Relations Board and used his bully
pulpit to pit worker against worker based on race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and
immigration status. His years of attacks on the country’s democratic institutions and the rule of
law culminated in an unprecedented effort to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election
and his incitement of a mob to violently attack the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the certification of the
election.
America deserves a president committed to ensuring economic growth benefits the working
class, not just the 1%. Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and their billionaire allies are no friends of
labor or the working class. We cannot allow this country to return to Trump’s failed anti-worker,
anti-union economic agenda, and chaotic and divisive mis-leadership.
“Vice President Harris has decades of experience in public service with a record of utilizing her
office to make life better for working people,” said ILWU International President Willie Adams.
“As the next President of the United States, she will continue to move the country forward and
build on the remarkable achievements of the past 3.5 years.”
