Kamala Harris will be a president for the labor movement – and for working women | Liz Shuler

As the first female president of the United States' largest labor federation, I'm proud to support the vice-president

The 6.6 million union women in this country - nearly half of today's labor movement - know an ally when we see one. We know we have one in Kamala Harris.

As president of the AFL-CIO, representing 60 unions across the United States in every sector of the economy, I've crisscrossed the country seeing our union members get out the vote for Harris in this election. So many of us - whether we're retail workers, caregivers, teachers, nurses, construction workers or in any line of work - see in vice-president Harris's story something that mirrors our own.

Liz Shuler is the president of and first woman to lead the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, representing 60 national and international unions and nearly 13 million workers. Her home union is IBEW, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers