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‘We know who built this country’: Walz courts union workers in first solo event (www.theguardian.com)

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Harris’s VP pick emphasizes his labor background at LA event and says Trump and Vance ‘waged war on workers’

Tim Walz held his first solo campaign event since being selected as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential nominee on Tuesday, rallying union members in Los Angeles and denouncing Donald Trump’s record on labor rights.

The Minnesota governor’s appearance, at an event hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was the first in a five-state fundraising campaign as Walz ramps up support for the still-young Democratic ticket.

Speaking to thousands of union members in a darkened auditorium, Walz said he and Harris will support workers by bringing collective bargaining and other protections to “every state in the union”. The 1.4-million-member union has endorsed Harris.

“We know exactly who built this country,” Walz said. “People in this room built the middle class.”

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 16 points 2 months ago

And they built it on rock n roll, right?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Only the city. The countryside was built on bluegrass, and the suburbs were built on muzak.

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