Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh made the trip to Durham on March 2 to tour Durham Technical Community College and check out a union electrical worker apprentice training program.
During her visit, Harris talked about how employees are working as hard as possible to make ends meet, but some still feel like they can’t keep up.
“Working people who are doing everything they can just to hold on, that are still feeling like they’re falling behind. Our administration is so proud to be the most pro-labor administration in the history of this country,” Harris said, according to ABC 11.
The vice president stopped in Durham just one day after President Joe Biden addressed the nation in his State of the Union address.
Harris and Walsh were chosen to lead the labor task force by Biden last year.
Harris said that during her visit to Durham, she met a lot of great leaders who she believes are a part of a new era for the American labor movement.
“A movement big enough to lift up every wage, every walk of life, every race, every gender. After all, every person should be able to benefit from the power of solidarity,” Harris said, according to ABC 11.
North Carolina is seen as a “purple” state that was just out of reach for Democrats in the last presidential election. Typically members of the administration tour the country touting the president’s message after he delivers the State of the Union address. North Carolina was the first stop on Harris’ tour.
