这是他们自20世纪90年代以来的首次联合竞选活动民主大会周一晚上，美国总统乔·拜登和副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在挤满人的匹兹堡联盟大厅发表讲话，庆祝劳动节。
这两人发表了非正式的讲话，作为全国各地劳动节宣传活动的一部分，在11月大选前共同努力争取工会工人。
当与会者穿着印有“匹兹堡骄傲，工会强大”等短语的衬衫时，拜登和哈里斯吹捧他们在执政期间的亲劳工记录，并将其与前总统唐纳德·特朗普进行了对比。
“很高兴来到工党的众议院，”哈里斯说，并对拜登保护工会的承诺大加赞赏。“乔·拜登一直与美国工人和美国工会站在一起。总是，总是，”她补充道。
在哈里斯面前，拜登将他的劳动记录描述为与哈里斯的共同成就。
“卡玛拉和我非常自豪，我们保护了超过100万名退休工人的养老金，”总统说，他还谈到了他任期内创造的就业数字:“迄今为止，6000万个新工作岗位，80万个制造业工作岗位!”
拜登承诺，如果她赢得选举，副总统将“建立”他的工会记录。
“伙计们，我们取得了很大进展，卡玛拉和我将在此基础上继续努力，她也将继续努力。我将是旁观者，但我会尽我所能帮助他们，”他说。
“卡玛拉和我有着相同的信念，”他说，强调了他们共同的信念。“工会是经济的支柱。她将成为历史性的亲工会总统。”
周一早些时候，哈里斯在底特律启动了劳动节突击活动，会见了工会成员并发表了简短的讲话。州长格雷琴·惠特默、副州长加林·吉尔克里斯特、参议员黛比·斯塔贝诺、众议员埃利萨·斯洛特金和众议员黛比·丁格尔加入了哈里斯的行列。
“我们庆祝劳动节的方式是我们知道努力工作就是好工作;我们知道，当我们组织起来，当我们把每个人聚集在一起，”哈里斯在底特律的西北高中体育馆说。“这是一个令人高兴的时刻，我们致力于做改善美国家庭的艰苦工作，我要感谢这里的每一个人，感谢你们每天所做的工作和方式。”
“所以，在劳动节，以及每一天，我们庆祝工作的尊严，”她后来补充道。“工作的尊严，我们庆祝工会，因为工会帮助建设了美国，工会帮助建设了美国的中产阶级。”
她还将许多现行的工作场所标准归功于工会。
“无论我去哪里，我都告诉人们，看，你可能不是工会成员，你最好感谢工会成员;对于五天工作周，你最好感谢一个工会成员;对于病假，你最好感谢工会成员，”她说。“对于带薪休假，你最好感谢工会成员给你假期。因为我们知道，当工会工资上涨时，所有人的工资都会上涨。”
哈里斯发表讲话时，包括美国汽车工人联合会主席肖恩·费恩和美国教师联合会主席兰迪·温加滕在内的工会领导人都站在他身后。他们在哈里斯之前不久上台。
Walz和他的妻子Gwen在参加威斯康星州密尔沃基的Laborfest之前，开始了在明尼苏达州圣保罗与工人的一天会议。除了著名的劳工团体，包括SEIU，卡车司机和美国汽车工人联合会，州长托尼·埃弗斯，参议员塔米·鲍德温，众议员格温·摩尔和市长卡瓦利耶·约翰逊都在那里。
竞选团队说，哈里斯的丈夫道格·艾姆霍夫在弗吉尼亚州纽波特纽斯参加众议员鲍比·斯科特的年度劳动节野餐会并发表讲话。
“副总统哈里斯总是把工人放在第一位，让强大的利益集团负责。作为加州司法部长，她打击工资盗窃，以确保工人得到他们应得的工资。竞选团队在一份声明中说:“作为参议员，她不知疲倦地为最弱势的工人而斗争，与UAW和麦当劳的工人一起走在纠察线上，并提出了家政工人权利法案。”。
“副总统哈里斯主持白宫工人组织工作小组，这使得工人们更容易行使他们加入工会的权利，”该运动继续说道。
“与此同时，特朗普是历史上最反工人和反工会的总统之一，”哈里斯竞选团队后来补充道，批评前总统唐纳德·特朗普。“他在全国劳工关系委员会中安插了反劳工倡导者。他伤害了汽车工人，将工作岗位转移到海外，以牺牲中产阶级的利益为代价，中饱超级富豪和大公司的腰包。”
Harris and Biden make pro-labor pitch on Labor Day in Pittsburgh
In their first joint campaign event since theDemocratic convention, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Labor Day by addressing a packed Pittsburgh union hall Monday night.
The pair delivered informal remarks as part of the campaign’s Labor Day blitz around the country, making a concerted effort to court union workers ahead of the November election.
As attendees wore shirts with phrases like “Pittsburgh Proud, Union Strong,” Biden and Harris touted their pro-labor record in office and contrasted it with former President Donald Trump’s.
“It’s good to be in the house of labor,” Harris said, heaping praise on Biden for his commitment to protecting unions. “Joe Biden has always stood with the workers of America and labor unions of America. Always, always," she added.
Speaking before Harris, Biden described his labor record as a joint achievement with Harris.
“Kamala and I are damn proud that we protected the pension of over 1 million workers, retirees,” the president said, speaking also about the job creation numbers under his watch: “60 million new jobs so far, 800,000 manufacturing jobs!”
Biden pledged that the vice president would “build on” his union record if she wins the election.
“Folks, we made a lot of progress, and Kamala and I are going to build on that progress, and she’s going to build on it. I will be on the sidelines, but I will do everything I can to help,” he said.
“And Kamala, believes as I do,” he said, emphasizing their shared beliefs. “Unions are the spine of this economy. She will be a historic pro-union president.”
Earlier Monday, Harris kicked off the Labor Day blitz in Detroit, meeting with union members and delivering brief remarks. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Rep. Debbie Dingell joined Harris.
"The way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work; we know that when we organize, when we bring everyone together," Harris said at Detroit's Northwestern High School gym. "It's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families, and I want to thank everyone here for that work and the way you do it every day."
"So, on Labor Day, and every day, we celebrate the dignity of work," she later added. "The dignity of work, we celebrate unions because unions helped build America, and unions helped build America's middle class."
She also credited union labor with many current workplace standards.
“Everywhere I go, I tell people, look, you may not be a union member, you better thank a union member; for the five-day work week, you better thank a union member; for sick leave, you better thank a union member," she said. “For paid leave you better thank a union member for vacation time. Because what we know is when union wages go up, everybody's wages go up.”
Union leaders, including United Autoworkers President Shawn Fain and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, stood behind Harris on stage as he delivered her remarks. They took the stage shortly before Harris.
Walz and his wife, Gwen, started off the day meeting with laborers in St. Paul, Minnesota, before attending Laborfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In addition to prominent labor groups, including SEIU, Teamsters, and United Autoworkers, Gov. Tony Evers, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Gwen Moore and Mayor Cavalier Johnson were there.
Harris' husband Doug Emhoff was in Newport News, Virginia, to participate in Rep. Bobby Scott's annual Labor Day Cookout and deliver remarks, the campaign said.
"Vice President Harris always put workers first and held powerful interests accountable. As California's attorney general, she fought wage theft to make sure workers got the pay they earned. As senator, she fought tirelessly for the most vulnerable workers, walking the picket line with UAW and McDonald's workers and introducing a domestic workers' bill of rights," the campaign said in a statement.
"Vice President Harris chairs The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing, which made it easier for working people to exercise their right to join a union," the campaign continued.
"Meanwhile, Trump was one of the most anti-worker and anti-union presidents in history," the Harris campaign later added, criticizing former President Donald Trump. "He stacked the National Labor Relations Board with anti-labor advocates. He hurt autoworkers, shipped jobs overseas, and lined the pockets of the super wealthy and big corporations at the expense of the middle class."
