Vice President Harris Touts Clean Energy Economy With Good-Paying, Union Jobs
Last week after the State of the Union address by President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Minnesota to reiterate the President's commitment to growing the labor movement by creating good, union jobs while visiting an electric bus manufacturing facility.
"Businesses that do the kind of work, combined with union leadership and workers, are building the future of our nation," said Harris. "And when I look around here and the work that is happening here, everyone knows buses are our nation’s most popular form of public transportation."
Harris went on to discuss how the Biden Administration has been able to work with both Democrats and Republicans to pass worker-first legislation like the Infrastructure Bill, CHIPS Act and invest over $5.5 billion to put thousands of new electric transit buses on the streets of our nation.
"We’ve done that to create jobs so people can have shift changes and have decent work hours and have good-paying union jobs," said Harris. "And it has meant jobs for steel workers in Ohio who make the glass for the bus windshields. Jobs for electrical workers in Wisconsin who install and repair the charging stations. Jobs for CWA workers here who assemble hundreds of buses a year. And jobs for the workers at a New Flyer facility just outside of Louisville, Kentucky, who just this week voted to unionize and join CWA."