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 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
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