Walz Twists Some Labor Claims

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Delivering remarks at a labor union conference in California, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz stretched the facts with several labor-related claims. Walz said Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance “has never cast a vote on a pro-worker bill in his life.” Walz was referring to the AFL-CIO scorecard, which lists legislation supported by the union. Vance, who has been in the Senate for less than two years, cast five votes opposed by the union. Walz said that former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.” The Trump administration actually extended the number of salaried employees eligible for overtime pay, but not to nearly as many workers as his predecessor, President Barack Obama, had sought. No one had their existing overtime benefits cut. Walz falsely claimed to be “the first union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan.” Trump, a three-time GOP presidential nominee, was a member of a labor union that represents tens of thousands of media professionals. Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president and a former member of a teachers’ union, spoke to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union at its...