‘We’re not going back’…Kamala Harris stands with union workers in Labor Day trip to Pittsburgh

AN ENERGIZED KAMALA HARRIS SPEAKS TO HUNDREDS OF LOCAL UNION WORKERS ON LABOR DAY, MONDAY, SEPT. 2, ON THE SOUTH SIDE. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO) From Isaac Myers, a founder of the Colored National Labor Union in 1869, to Mary McLeod Bethune, the founding president of the National Council for Negro Wom­en and the first woman president of the American Teachers Association in 1912, African Americans and labor unions have al­most always gone hand in hand. “Almost” must be said, because not all unions had African Americans’ backs, such as the AFL autoworkers union in De­troit, which, according to many research experts, “missed opportunities” in Black people’s fight for civil rights and against police brutality in the 1930s. But generally speaking, unions have been good to African Americans. There were plenty in the crowd as Vice President and Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Har­ris addressed hundreds of local union workers on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, inside the IBEW Local Union No. 5 Building on the South Side. She wasn’t alone. She brought a friend who you may have heard of. President Joe Biden, whose selection of Harris as his running mate in 2020 propelled Harris to where she is today—one...