ALLENTOWN, Pa. — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and U.S. Rep. Susan Wild, D-7th District, will headline a rally to support the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, it was announced Thursday.
The event, Rally with the Working Class, will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at UAW Local 667, 2101 Mack Blvd.
It will kick off a day of union-led, door-to-door canvassing in Allentown to elect UAW champions and Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
"Kamala Harris is the candidate of the working class."Shawn Fain, UAW president
“Kamala Harris is the candidate of the working class,” Fain said in a news release on Thursday.
“She stood with us on the picket line while Donald Trump did nothing. She and President Biden bet on the American worker and brought manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
“Donald Trump doubled down on NAFTA and sent our jobs to Mexico. He is a con man and a scab. He will side with the billionaires and sell out to the working class.
"Kamala Harris stands with us and that’s why UAW members are standing up, speaking up and showing up to elect her president.”
Mobilizing UAW members online
Sunday’s rally will be a joint event co-hosted by UAW Regions 9 and 9A. UAW Region 9 Director Daniel Vicente and UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla also will attend.
Trump recently insulted UAW workers while speaking at The Economic Club in Chicago.
“They [UAW workers] get away with murder because they say, ‘Oh, yes, we’re building cars,’” Trump said. “They don’t build cars. They take them out of a box and they assemble them. We could have our child do it.”
In August, the UAW launched its most ambitious political program in decades. The union’s program includes mobilizing UAW members online, at worksites and in the field with a door-to-door program to reach members, retirees and their families around a pro-worker, anti-corporate greed agenda.
The union’s 1 million active and retired members form a core base of support for the Harris-Walz campaign and will provide a major piece of the campaign’s margin of victory in key races in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan.
