Release: Delaware’s Building & Construction Trades & 20 Local Unions Endorse Sarah McBride for Congress
“Sarah is a champion for working people, for unions and she’s our candidate for Congress.”
Newark, DE — Today, the Delaware Building and Construction Trades and 19 construction craft local unions affiliates joined to announce their endorsement of State Senator Sarah McBride for Delaware’s at-large Congressional seat. Together, these unions represent more than 4,000 workers across Delaware. Unions announcing their endorsement include:
Delaware Building and Construction Trades
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 313
United Association Plumbers and Steamfitters of the United States and Canada Local Union 74
Delaware Laborers Local 199
Teamsters Local Union 326 (previously announced)
International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 5
International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 7
UA Sprinkler Fitters Local 669
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers Local 451
Millwright and Machinery Erectors Local 219
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Local 255
Piledrivers & Divers Local #474
IUPAT District Council 21
Boilermakers Local 13
Cement Masons Local 592
Sheet Metal Workers Local 19
United Telephone Workers of Delaware/CWA Local 13101
Heat & Frost Insulators Local 42
Roofers Local 30
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 542
“The Delaware Building and Construction Trades is proud to announce our endorsement of Sarah McBride for Congress. Sarah McBride has a 100% pro-union voting record and we know she will be a champion for us in Congress,” said James Maravelias, President of the Delaware Building Trades of their endorsement. “Working people across Delaware deserve a member of Congress who has a record of taking on big challenges and delivering for them — Sarah is exactly that leader. Sarah is a champion for working people, for unions and she’s our candidate for Congress.”
Standing next to union leaders, Senator Sarah McBride said, “The backbone of the American middle class is the right to organize and form strong unions. As President Biden said, ‘The middle class built America, and unions built the middle class.’
“For 40 years, far-right extremists have sought to weaken federal protections for workers, undermine the enforcement of national labor laws, and strip workers of their right to organize. To restore the American middle class, we must do more to support unions and empower workers in their right to organize.
“On day one, I’ll sign onto the PRO Act. But that’s just the start — together, we will work arm and arm to enhance protections for the right to organize, fully fund agencies looking out for workers, and ensure that as new industries and economies emerge, they are powered by a unionized workforce. With unions fighting with us, I know we can win this fall.”
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