Kamala Harris: Champion for Working People

The Biden-Harris Administration

Passed the Inflation Reduction Act
- Creates green manufacturing jobs [1]
- Lowers our prescription drug costs
- Lowers gas prices [2]
- Lowers health insurance costs
- Incentivizes companies to pay prevailing wages [3]
Passed the American Rescue Plan [4]
- Saved pensions for 24,000 CWA members [5]
- Digs the economy out of the recession inherited by the Biden-Harris Administration
- Support for small businesses
- Expanded the Child Tax Credit
Pass the CHIPS and Science Act
- Boosts domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the U.S.
- Strengthens American manufacturing and supply chains
Upsurge in worker organizing
- Unionization increased by 200,000 in 2022 [6]
Strengthening unions
- Required federal contractors to pay higher wages [7]
- Strengthened federal prevailing wage rules

Chairs the Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment [8]
- Increased disclosure of anti-union consultants
- Strengthen policies to protect workers against retaliation
- Established “Good Jobs Principles” for federal funding that will help organizing on federally-funded projects
- Increased access to federal facilities for union reps and organizers
Presides over the U.S. Senate, casting key tie-breaking votes including:
- Confirming CWA’s former counsel Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board
- Passing the Inflation Reduction Act
- Passing the American Rescue Plan

Strengthened OSHA protections against heat stress on the job [9]
Strengthened whistleblower protections on the job [10]
Established a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights [11]
Voted for a number of pro-worker pieces of legislation, including:
- Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (one of the lead original co-sponsors) [12]
- Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act
- U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act
- Raise the Wage Act

Established a cooperative task force to investigate wage theft [13]
Secured hundreds of millions of dollars for state teacher and public employee pension funds [14]
Secured $18 billion for California homeowners from predatory banks from banks during the foreclosure crisis [15]
Secured over $230 million in penalties on pharmaceutical companies that were ripping off or misleading consumers

Met with CWA leaders and rank-and-file members numerous times to hear our concerns and discuss how she can help
Rescheduled multiple events to ensure that she respected picket lines [16]