Labor likes Gov. Tim Walz for vice president -- and other labor news

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Gov. Tim Walz speaks to union leaders at the annual Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council convention in Duluth on July 20, 2023. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/08/02/labor-likes-gov-tim-walz-for-vice-president-and-other-labor-news/

By: Max Nesterak - August 2, 2024 10:13 am

Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: Labor likes Walz for vice president; rising unemployment signals possible recession; Ramsey County goes non-union; undocumented workers pay $222 million in state and local taxes in Minnesota; and unions post record-high pay increases in new contracts ratified this year.

UAW president likes Walz for veep

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain told CNN that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear are his two favorites for vice president given their track records of supporting unions.

Fain, a powerful voice in the labor movement since the union’s strike against the Big Three automakers last fall, made the statement after the UAW endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Wednesday, joining a slew of other large labor unions including the Service Employees International Union, the United Steelworkers and the National Education Association.

Speaking on MSNBC, UAW President Shawn Fain said, “You have one candidate in Trump who represents the billionaire class, I call him the lap dog for the billionaires. And you have a candidate in Kamala Harris, who stands for working class people.”

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