Days Until Election Day 2024
To All Affiliates,
Following President Biden’s historic decision on Sunday to graciously put his country first, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President in the 2024 race. After much careful consideration, the AFL-CIO Executive Council, which represents 60 unions and 12.5 million workers, voted yesterday to endorse Harris for President in the 2024 Election. At the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, we would like to thank the Executive Council for their swift leadership and guidance during this time. Please review the AFL-CIO’s press release on their endorsement of Kamala Harris below.
In Solidarity,
AFL-CIO Unanimously Endorses Kamala Harris for President
WASHINGTON—Following a vote of its Executive Council, which represents 60 unions and 12.5 million workers, yesterday the AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in the 2024 election.
“From day one, Vice President Kamala Harris has been a true partner in leading the most pro-labor administration in history,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “At every step in her distinguished career in public office, she’s proven herself a principled and tenacious fighter for working people and a visionary leader we can count on. From taking on Wall Street and corporate greed to leading efforts to expand affordable child care and support vulnerable workers, she’s shown time and again that she’s on our side. With Kamala Harris in the White House, together we’ll continue to build on the powerful legacy of the Biden-Harris administration to create good union jobs, grow the labor movement and make our economy work for all of us.”
As Vice President, Harris:
- Played a critical role in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, investing in good-paying union jobs, bringing manufacturing back to America, lowering prescription drug costs and raising wages
- Saved the pensions of more than 1 million union workers and retirees
- Led the administration’s efforts to increase access to affordable child care and expand the child tax credit
- Championed worker organizing and chaired the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, where she championed for new worker organizing and training to create pathways to good union jobs
- Stood with striking writers
Other highlights of Harris’ record in support of workers include the following:
- As a U.S. senator, she fought to expand labor protections and fair wages for agricultural and domestic workers and walked the picket line with International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) workers. She was a vigorous advocate for workers’ freedom to form or join a union, including strongly supporting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to reform broken labor legislation that stacks the deck against workers.
- As attorney general of California, she cracked down on corporate greed, took on the big banks after the 2008 financial crisis to deliver relief for struggling homeowners and protected the most vulnerable workers by tackling wage theft and other corporate crimes.
“The AFL-CIO is proud of our early and steadfast support for the Biden-Harris administration, and now we’ll ratchet up our mass mobilization of union workers to elect Vice President Harris as president,” Shuler continued. “Like Harris, the labor movement doesn’t back down—and we’ll never shy away from a tough fight when the future of workers and unions is on the line. Together, we will defeat Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and their devastating anti-worker Project 2025 agenda in November.”
2024 Endorsements
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By Mail
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Your mail-in ballot must be postmarked by 8 p.m. June 4, delivered in person to your county Board of Elections by 8 p.m. June 4, or placed in a designated ballot drop box by 8 p.m. June 4.
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in Person via Early Voting
Every county will provide registered voters with the option to vote early by machine in the 2024 Primary Election.
Each of the 21 counties has designated in-person early voting locations that will be open Wednesday, May 29, through Sunday, June 2. Hours will be Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
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in Person on Election Day
The June 4 New Jersey Primary Election will offer in-person voting by machine from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. for all registered voters who have not voted early or submitted a Vote-by-Mail ballot.
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Hand-Delivered
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Resources
<h1 style=”text-align: center;”><span style=”color: #000000;”>Committee on Political Education (COPE)</span></h1>
<p style=”text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size: 14pt;”><span style=”color: #000000;”>Every year, the affiliated union organizations that comprise the New Jersey State AFL-CIO vote on which election candidates to endorse based on voting records and working family issues. The New Jersey labor movement has a proud history of supporting candidates who support working families. Working in partnership with the New Jersey State AFL-CIO’s political department, the state’s central labor councils and affiliated local unions, the Committee on Political Education (COPE) makes every effort to educate union members and their families about these endorsements and why they were made.</span></span></p>