The powerful coalition of 28 affiliated unions throws its support behind Lee for her decades-long record of championing workers’ rights

Los Angeles, CA – Today, Congresswoman and U.S. Senate candidate Barbara Lee announced she has been endorsed by the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County.

The Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County Is a coalition of 28 affiliated unions representing approximately 40,000 workers in various construction trades who live and work in the County.

“Congresswoman Lee has never backed down from standing up for working men and women,” said Andreas Culver, the Secretary-Treasurer for the Building Trades Council of Alameda County. “We know that in the U.S. Senate she will continue to be a champion for labor and be the voice we need to deliver pro-labor policies, empower workers, and rebuild our economy. We are honored to endorse her.”

“I’m honored to have the support of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County,” said Lee. “I know that building a stronger economy starts with creating more good-paying union jobs and ensuring our workers have the power to negotiate for better conditions in the workplace and to hold corporations accountable when they don’t. I have always stood beside my union brothers and sisters in Congress and I will never stop being a voice for them in the U.S. Senate.”

Lee enters the race for U.S. Senate with a long and growing list of supporters, including Attorney General Rob Bonta, Controller Malia Cohen, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, State Senators Anna Caballero and Nancy Skinner, Assemblymembers Mia Bonta and Corey Jackson, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, San Bernardino Mayor Helen Tran, Redlands Mayor Eddie Tejeda, Rialto Mayor Deborah Robertson, former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Palm Desert Mayor Pro Tem Karina Quintanilla, Dolores Huerta, California Democratic Party Asian Pacific Islander Caucus Chair Deepa Sharma, California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Chair Amar Shergill, California Democratic Party LGBTQ Caucus Co-Chair Tiffany Woods, California Legislative Black Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, and Feminist Majority PAC.