Washington, D.C. – July 25, 2024 – Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) announced its formal endorsement of Kamala Harris for President of the United States. The organization, which represents over 3 million union construction professionals, issued the following statement from NABTU President Sean McGarvey:

“North America’s Building Trades Unions, on behalf of the over 3 million building trades professionals we represent, proudly endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the United States.

“Vice President Harris not only possesses the vision, leadership, and dedication needed to lead our country forward; her accomplished record proves it. Throughout her career, Vice President Harris has consistently demonstrated her sincere commitment to the deep values and critical priorities of building trades workers and their families. She has always stood up for the working class, fighting for fair wages, safe workplaces, labor protections, health and retirement security, and the economic opportunity that collective bargaining provides for all of America’s workers.

“The policies she has helped enact over the last four years, shoulder to shoulder with President Biden, are rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure and manufacturing sector, strengthening opportunity pipelines for historically underrepresented communities, and reinvesting in the American middle class. These wins are huge for America’s economic viability and global security, and they are all at stake in this election.

“NABTU enthusiastically supports Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy and looks forward to her continued fight for working people as President. She is the only candidate in this race who will secure our wins by tying infrastructure, domestic manufacturing, and energy investments to working people instead of the MAGA Trump policy of giving the same old tax cuts to the rich.  We are confident that if nominated, she will finish the job and continue to fight for the people who truly build and uphold our nation.”

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Media Contact: Betsy Barrett, (202) 997-3266 | bbarrett@nabtu.org

About NABTU: North America’s Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry that collectively represent over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada.  Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest almost $2 billion in private-sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained, and productive skilled craft workers found anywhere in the world.  NABTU is dedicated to creating economic security and employment opportunities for its construction workers by safeguarding wage and benefits standards, promoting responsible private capital investments, investing in renowned apprenticeship and training, and creating more construction career pathways to the middle class for women, communities of color, indigenous people, veterans, and the justice-involved. For more information, please visit nabtu.org.