2024 NYSUT Voter Guide
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AFT/NEA ENDORSED CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
Vice President Kamala Harris
Candidate for
President of the United States
"What I know firsthand is that our teachers — by nature — you are visionaries. You are focused on the future. You see the potential in every child. You foster it. You encourage it."
Pro-union, pro-worker
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AFL-CIO has given Harris a lifetime score of 98 percent on her Senate voting record.
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Took a leading role in revitalizing our nation’s infrastructure by creating good-paying union jobs, bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., lowering prescription drug costs and raising wages.
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Secured the pensions of more than 1 million union workers and retirees, protecting their financial future.
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Led efforts to expand access to affordable childcare and enhance the child tax credit, supporting working families.
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Advocated for workers organizing as the chair of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, promoting training and pathways to quality union jobs.
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Supported striking writers, standing in solidarity with workers fighting for fair treatment.
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Supports passage of the PRO Act to make it easier for workers to unionize.
Pro-public education
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Attended public schools and is a long-time champion of public education.
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Sued predatory for-profit colleges — and won.
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Advocated for universal preschool; smaller class sizes; and more counselors, librarians and full-time nurses in schools.
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Called for increasing Title I funding and more funding for Head Start programs.
Gov. Tim Walz
Candidate for
Vice President of the United States
"Never underestimate a public school teacher. Never!"
Former public school teacher
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Gov. Walz taught for years in Minnesota as a social studies teacher and football coach. He met his wife, who was also a teacher, while working at Mankato West High School.
Pro-public education
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A die-hard supporter of public schools and a living testament to our belief that public schools are the centers of our communities.
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Signed a bill making Minnesota one of eight states with free school meals for all
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Increased education funding by over $2 billion for K-12 schools in Minnesota, a more than 10 percent increase.
Pro-union, pro-worker
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Education Minnesota, Minnesota’s statewide teachers’ union affiliated with the AFT and NEA, hailed Gov. Walz’s reelection in 2022 as a victory for “pro-public education, pro-union” causes.
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As governor, Walz expanded collective bargaining rights, fought wage theft, enacted paid family and medical leave and took on mandatory captive audience meetings.