Harris cheers Culinary Workers’s ‘historic’ contract as Biden looks to solidify union support

Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the Culinary Workers Union’s new contract Wednesday in Nevada and, in remarks, propped up organized labor as the backbone of the nation.

Harris’s remarks, delivered in Las Vegas, come as she and President Joe Biden are kicking their 2024 campaign into overdrive in the face of a string of negative polls.

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Harris in particular is being deployed to address the concerns of black, Latino, and young voters. The union Harris visited Wednesday, which in November negotiated a new contract with the major Las Vegas casino companies, is 54% Latino.

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The vice president took the stage in Vegas to chants of “KA-MA-LA!” and called the new contract, a 32% pay raise across five years coupled with new workplace safety standards, “historic.”

“The reason that anyone, whether you are a member of a union or not, get a weekend, get paid leave, get family leave, if you get it, it is union members and the working people who are members of organized labor, who have always fought and continue to fight for the rights for the dignity of working people and the dignity of work itself,” she opened.

“You guys are setting a new standard for workers across the board,” the vice president continued. “By accomplishing what you have accomplished here, at Culinary 226, you are setting a new standard for workers everywhere of what they now know because they know the story of what happened here. What they now know is possible, is reasonable, is right, and is achievable.”

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“It is making a difference in the lives of people who you may never meet, people who may never know your name, but because of what you have done, they will benefit,” Harris concluded.

You can watch the vice president’s remarks in full below.