SEIU For HARRIS 2024
SEIU is ALL IN for Vice President Harris because she is the best prepared presidential candidate who can beat Donald Trump and finish the job that was started under the Biden-Harris administration.
Vice President Harris brings with her decades of public service fighting for working families. Additionally, she is a historic choice to lead the Democratic ticket as a woman of color and the daughter of immigrant parents. Vice President Harris has made sure to use every lever of government to do everything possible to make things better for working people.
The stakes couldn’t be higher. Donald Trump wants to crush access to unions, roll back protections for immigrant communities and for women’s reproductive health, and continue to side with corporations on tax cuts and anti-worker policies. Supporting Vice President Harris will build momentum and create the necessary environment to win Unions For All.
About Kamala Harris
Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States. She has always fought for the people, breaking barriers as San Francisco’s District Attorney, California Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and as Vice President.
Now, she’s running for President to continue protecting our freedoms, delivering justice, and expanding opportunities so every American can thrive.
As Vice President, she’s been a trusted partner to President Joe Biden. Together, they’ve taken on powerful forces to make life better for working people—standing up to extremists, defending women’s reproductive rights, and fighting Big Pharma to lower prescription drug costs, like capping insulin at $35 a month for seniors.
What’s at Stake
Comparing the Presidential
Candidates on the IssuesComparing the Vice Presidential Candidates on the Issues
Comparing the Presidential Candidates on the Issues
Support for Unions
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Supports the right of all workers to form unions and has stood up for care workers like home care, child care, and nursing home workers
- Chaired the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment
- As California Attorney General cracked down on employers that stole workers’ wages
- Made it harder for workers to form unions by weakening the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees union elections
- Appointed anti-union SCOTUS justices leading to decisions like Janus that hurt unions
- Threatened to veto the PRO Act and Raise the Wage Act
- Rolled back overtime pay protections, weakened labor law enforcement, and reduced the number of OSHA inspectors protecting workers’ health and safety
- Fought unionizing efforts and brought in anti-union consultants to stop his employees from forming unions
Care
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Fights to lower the cost of care so working families can get the help they need
- Took important first steps to tackle the care crisis, like the 2023 Executive Order on Care and other actions to strengthen care services and support home care workers
- Introduced new rules to make child care more accessible and more affordable while also increasing pay, benefits, and mental health support for child care workers
- Created new rules to make nursing homes safer and improve home care for seniors and people with disabilities while making care jobs good union jobs
- Took action to lower the cost of child care for over 100,000 families who get help from the government
- Opposed policies that would have made child care more affordable for working families, leaving many struggling with high costs
- Did not support initiatives to provide paid family leave, leaving many families without support when they needed time off to care for loved ones
The Economy
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Worked with President Biden to rebuild the economy back from the pandemic with major investments in states and cities, American Rescue Plan, and child tax credit
- Worked with President Joe Biden to pass an infrastructure bill
- Cracked down on corporations that price-gouge consumers and saddle them with junk fees
- Fought to lower costs, including capping insulin at $35/month for seniors
- Will require corporations and the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes and empower the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats
- Fought to increase the minimum wage for Federal contractors to $15/hr
- Lost 3 million jobs due to failure to control the pandemic
- Passed a massive $1.9 trillion tax cut for the rich and big corporations
- Failed to pass any infrastructure bill
Racial Justice
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Spent 30 years working to keep communities safe, prosecuting serious crimes as a local prosecutor, District Attorney, and Attorney General
- As District Attorney started a program called “Back on Track” to help first-time drug offenders earn high school diplomas and get jobs, which became a national model for reducing repeat offenders
- Was the first Attorney General to require police body cameras
- Won cases to protect people from losing their homes unfairly and from being taken advantage of by for-profit colleges
- A leader on reproductive justice issues in the Senate and White House, including introducing legislation and implementing policies to make Black maternal health a national priority
- As Senator co-authored and continues to push as Vice President for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
- As Vice President, championed racial equity and further advanced equal opportunity for underserved communities through laws like the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act, as well as through historic executive actions
Has a long history of promoting racial injustice even before becoming president:
- Being sued in the 1970s for not renting to Black people
- Calling for the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers in the 1989 Central Park Five case, even though they were later proven innocent
- Pushing the false idea that President Obama wasn’t born in the US to undermine the first Black president
As the 45th President, Trump rolled back key civil rights policies, threatening years of progress in fighting voter suppression, housing discrimination, and police misconduct.
- Signed an Executive Order to ban Muslims and refugees from entering the U.S.
- Enforced cruel immigration policies, including separating young children and their families at the border
- Banned federal agencies, federal contractors, and grantees from conducting anti-discrimination training or promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace
Immigration
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Advocated for safer policies, secure borders, and humane treatment for all people
- Supported expanding legal immigration and pathway to citizenship for immigrants brought here as children
- Worked to bring families back together who were separated during the Trump presidency, helped migrants who can’t go back to unsafe countries, and protected workers from being punished because of their immigration status
- Built his presidency on fear and hatred of immigrants
- Tried to take away lawful status from nearly a million DACA and TPS holders
- Spent billions of taxpayer dollars to build a hateful and ineffective wall
- Deliberately separated children from their parents
- Tried to ban travel and refugee admissions from Muslim and African countries
- Promised that if he gets reelected, he will deport more people than ever before, which would mean forcing immigrants who live and work in our communities into camps
Healthcare
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Fought to protect Medicaid recipients’ access to services and ensure managed care companies have proper oversight
- As Attorney General, she fought against big companies trying to take over and profit from the healthcare industry in California, and she’s continued this fight in the Administration by working to stop corporate greed in healthcare
- Attempted to take away healthcare from millions of people by overturning the Affordable Care Act
Climate Change
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Met with over 100 global leaders to keep the U.S. leading in the fight against climate change and started partnerships to tackle climate issues together
- Helped make sure that 40 percent of government climate money goes to communities that need it the most
- As Attorney General secured over $50 million in penalties from big oil companies for breaking environmental laws
- Gutted funding for the US Environmental Protection Agency
- Denies the existence of global warming
- Removed the U.S. from the global Paris Agreement on climate change
Reproductive Rights
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Fights for people’s reproductive freedom, including abortion access, so people can make their own decisions about their bodies
- Anti-choice
- Nominated Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade
- Expanded a rule that stops U.S. funding for health organizations around the world if they talk about or provide information on abortion
Voting Rights
Vice President Harris
Trump
- A long-time leader throughout her career in advancing voting rights and access to the ballot
- Led the Biden Administration’s efforts to protect voting rights at the federal level in the wake of states passing voter suppression laws post the 2020 election
- Strong advocate of the John Lewis Act, which will restore and strengthen part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Pushed false “voter fraud” narratives
- Threatened states that used vote-by-mail
- Tried to overturn the will of voters in the 2020 election
LGBTQIA+ Rights
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Supported the right for same-sex couples to get married. As Attorney General, she refused to defend a law that tried to ban same-sex marriage
- Worked to make sure LGBTQIA+ people can’t be mistreated at work, supporting laws that protect them from discrimination
- Fought to make sure LGBTQIA+ people get fair treatment in healthcare
- As Attorney General, led the effort to ban a defense where someone could claim they acted violently because they were shocked to find out someone was gay or transgender
- Undermined and eliminated the rights of LGBTQIA+ people
- Supported employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people
- Used Title IX to discriminate against Trans kids
- Banned Trans people from serving in the military
Judges
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Pushed for judges who are fair and protect the rights of everyone, not just the powerful or wealthy
- Believes it’s important to have judges from different backgrounds so courts better reflect the people they serve
- Backed the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African American Woman Supreme Court Justice
- Appointed three conservative, anti-worker Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe v. Wade
- Appointed more than 120 conservative, anti-worker federal judges
COVID Response
Vice President Harris
Trump
- Worked quickly to distribute COVID-19 tests and vaccines, ensuring millions of Americans got vaccinated to protect themselves and their communities
- Put in place rules to protect healthcare workers from COVID
- Provided essential support to frontline workers, including access to vaccines and funding for personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep them safe during the pandemic
- Passed relief packages that included direct payments to families, extended unemployment benefits, and support for small businesses to help Americans recover from the economic impact of the pandemic
- 3 million Americans vaccinated, short of his goal of 20 million
- Championed dangerous treatments
- Mocked mask-wearing, criticized shutdowns, and demonized public health workers
Student Debt
Vice President Harris
Trump
- As Attorney General won a $1 billion judgment against Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit school that defrauded thousands of low-income students
- Released a plan to forgive up to $20,000 for all student loan borrowers, approved more applicants for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program than any previous administration, and will introduce regulatory action to provide debt relief to borrowers with runaway interest and economic hardship
- Created the SAVE Plan, the most affordable student loan repayment plan ever to lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers
- Supports tuition-free education at public colleges
- A federal court approved a $25 million settlement in funds to students who Trump and the now-defunct Trump University defrauded
- Praised the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Biden-Harris student forgiveness plan and called for the elimination of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, subsidized interest on student loans, and the work-study program
- Halted a regulation to provide loan forgiveness to those defrauded by their schools
- Called student debt relief plans “vile” and suggested previous plans would be reversed if he returned to the White House
Comparing the Vice Presidential Candidates on the Issues
Support for Unions
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Has a strong history of standing with working people, including setting up a standards board in Minnesota for nursing home workers that will mean higher pay for these workers
- Banned non-compete agreements that stop people from getting better jobs
- Raised wages for Uber and Lyft drivers in Minnesota so they got paid more
- Signed into law paid sick leave and 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for workers in Minnesota
- Voted against the PRO Act, which would make it easier for workers to form unions.
- Backs plans that would make it harder for workers to protect their rights, like Project 2025.
- Funded by Wall Street bankers and Silicon Valley billionaires, including Elon Musk who publicly applauded the practice of firing employees who threaten to strike.
Care
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Made child care more affordable and expanded Pre-K in Minnesota
- Expanded free school meals to all children in Minnesota
- Expanded paid family and medical leave in Minnesota, providing up to 12 weeks for new parents, caring for sick family members or dealing with serious health conditions.
- Created a new tax credit to help families with children
- Signed into law paid sick leave
- Signed into law 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for workers in Minnesota
- Established a Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board to set wages across the industry
- Increased the wages of home care workers from $15.25 to $19 per hour in 2024, a 25 percent increase, and to $20 per hour in 2025
- Opposes universal child care
- Invested in a Kentucky startup company that subjected workers to unsafe working conditions, leading to worker complaints about safety and heat exhaustion
The Economy
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Signed a bill to fix roads and bridges in Minnesota, creating many good jobs.
- Made sure rideshare drivers got better pay, and gave workers paid leave and sick days.
- Imposed taxes on the wealthy and multinational corporations in Minnesota
- Funded by Wall Street bankers and Silicon Valley billionaires, including Elon Musk.
- Believes some workers might never find good-paying jobs again, especially in manufacturing.
- Called the Inflation Reduction Act – a bill created to make thousands of new jobs and is intended to help stop climate change, a mistake
- WIll let the wealthy get away with not paying their fair share of taxes
Racial Justice
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Banned chokeholds, improved police training, and made deadly force rules stricter after George Floyd’s death.
- Championed second chances for those convicted of crimes; focused on rehabilitation, offering job training, mental health care, and substance abuse treatment.
- Passed laws to keep African American families together and banned hair discrimination.
- Aligns with far-right figures promoting hate and division.
- Pushes harmful ideologies that divide communities
- Spread racist ideas about Haitian immigrants; resulting in attacks on those living in Springfield, Ohio
Immigration
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Supports a path to citizenship for young immigrants who grew up in the U.S.
- Made it easier for immigrants in Minnesota to get a driver’s license so they could work and fully participate in the community.
- Believes in a welcoming immigration system that helps everyone contribute and succeed.
- Wants to build a border wall and deport families, which could separate parents from children.
- Supports divisive rhetoric that harms immigrants and promotes harmful policies like cutting healthcare for Dreamers.
Healthcare
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Voted for the Affordable Care Act, helping 100,000 Minnesotans get covered and lowering premiums.
- Signed a bill to allow uninsured people to buy into MinnesotaCare.
- Signed a bill investing $60 million in mental health services.
- Secured $300 million to fight the opioid epidemic in Minnesota.
- Signed bills capping insulin prices and reducing medical debt.
- Supports a plan that would let insurance companies deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.
- Fought against the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that lowered prescription prices.
- Pushed bills cutting health care access for immigrant youth who were brought to this country by their parents.
Climate Change
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Created a 100% Clean Energy by 2040 plan to power Minnesota with clean energy, creating jobs and fighting climate change.
- Led the state to adopt clean car standards, helping both the economy and the environment.
- Signed a bill to cut energy costs and boost clean energy jobs.
- Secured a $200 million EPA grant to fight pollution and improve public health in Minnesota.
- Denies climate change; questions whether it is man-made, hurting efforts to lower costs and protect the planet.
- Funded by Big Oil, Vance opposes clean energy and backs fracking, risking pollution and health.
Reproductive Rights
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Made Minnesota the first state to strengthen reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
- Removed barriers for women seeking abortion care and ensured schools provided free menstrual products.
- Backs extreme abortion bans, including in cases of rape or incest.
- Supports banning abortion nationwide, even in states where it’s legal.
Voting Rights
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Restored voting rights to 55,000 Minnesotans who served their time, helping them rejoin the community.
- Made voting easier with automatic registration, mail-in voting, and pre-registration for young voters.
- Expanded access to voting in multiple languages to ensure everyone can participate.
- Signed laws to protect voting rights and expand the time people can take off work to vote.
- Opposes voter ID laws, believing they unfairly restrict access.
- Spread false claims about the 2020 election and immigrants voting.
- Supports strict voter ID laws, making it harder for many to vote.
- Wants to give the president the power to override the Supreme Court.
- Believes people without children should have less voting power.
LGBTQIA+ Rights
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Stands up for LGBTQ+ rights, promising to always support them.
- Banned harmful conversion therapy in Minnesota.
- Protected healthcare access for transgender individuals.
- Made Minnesota a safe state for transgender people, ensuring they can get necessary care.
- Created a safe space for LGBTQIA+ students, as a high school teacher
- Supported marriage equality and worked to end discrimination in the military.
- Worked to enact hate crime protections for LGBTQ+ Americans.
- Opposes laws that protect LGBTQ+ individuals from discrimination.
- Criticized the Equality Act, which would ensure equal treatment.
- Introduced legislation that would criminalize gender-affirming care for minors.
- Opposes marriage equality and has spread harmful stereotypes about the LGBTQ+ community.
Judges
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Appointed judges who care about fairness for everyone, not just the rich.
- Made history by nominating a majority-women Minnesota Supreme Court.
- Chose Natalie Hudson as the first Chief Justice of color in the state.
- Believes in a justice system that represents all Minnesotans.
- Wants to appoint extreme judges who could take away women’s rights and LGBTQ protections.
- Pushed for a political investigation into a judge to defend Trump, showing disregard for justice.
COVID Response
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Made sure essential workers got COVID-19 vaccines and extra pay for their hard work.
- Gave “hero pay” to frontline workers like nurses and doctors.
- Helped small businesses and families with financial support during the pandemic.
- Provided free COVID-19 tests and life-saving treatments.
- Made it easier for healthcare workers to access workers’ compensation benefits.
- Prevented evictions and helped families with rent assistance.
- Opposed basic public health measures like masks.
- Spread misinformation about COVID-19, creating fear and confusion.
- Took a negative stance against mask mandates, saying COVID would always be here and downplaying efforts to fight it.
Student Debt
Tim Walz
JD Vance
- Signed the North Star Promise program to make public college free for families earning under $80,000.
- Signed a loan forgiveness program for healthcare workers that would pay off 15% of the average debt for their fields for eligible nurses.
- Expanded tax exemptions for student loan forgiveness to give families financial relief.
- Believes everyone deserves affordable education and works to lower college costs and reduce student debt.
- Opposes student loan forgiveness, calling it unfair and illegal.
- Fought against Biden’s plan to relieve student debt.
- Prioritizes politics over helping families with crushing debt.
Why Kamala Harris
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
FUTURE PLANS
CONTRAST WITH MAGA REPUBLICANS
Vice President Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting for working families. She understands our struggles, like paying for groceries and balancing work and family. At the White House, she has listened to workers’ demands by:
- Standing with workers organizing their unions, including leading the first-ever White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment
- Making home care and child care more accessible and affordable
- Championing safer staffing standards in nursing homes
- Defending our reproductive freedom and becoming the first sitting President or Vice President to visit an abortion clinic
- Fighting for a humane and orderly immigration system
- Canceling millions in student loan debt
- Championing women’s rights, equal pay, and civil rights for LGBTQIA+ people and
- Passing historic legislation to address our climate crisis, creating hundreds of thousands of green union jobs.
Vice President Kamala Harris will continue fighting to ensure every worker can join unions.
- Push for equal pay for equal work
- Stand up for Black, Brown, and immigrant women who have been excluded from fair labor laws
- Safeguard voting rights
- Build a stronger care economy and uplift care workers, many of whom are women of color and immigrants
- Defend the Affordable Care Act, and protect Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
- Opposes a future where corporations and CEOs get tax breaks and special treatment while working people struggle
- Stands against the appointment of more MAGA justices on the Supreme Court who would take away rights
- Rejects a President who punishes political opponents and pushes a racist, sexist, and anti-worker agenda like Project 2025