DALLAS \u2013 Today, following the recommendation of the North Texas Area Labor Federation, the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) announced their endorsement of\u00a0Colin Allred for the primary runoff for Texas Congressional District 33.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Delegates to the North Texas Area Labor Federation COPE screened CD-33 candidates and voted to recommend\u00a0Allred for endorsement. Then, the\u00a0Texas AFL-CIO Executive Board<\/a>, made up of delegates from across the state, reviewed the race and voted to endorse\u00a0Allred through the COPE.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe need fighters in DC who will take on the billionaires, corporations, and special interests \u2014 that\u2019s why we\u2019re proud to endorse Colin Allred,\u201d\u00a0said Texas AFL-CIO President Leonard Aguilar. \u201cColin is ready to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with workers to win better wages, fully-fund our public schools, and lower health care costs. In runoffs, Texas union members\u2019 votes could be the deciding factor, and you can bet on Texas union members turning out this May.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cColin Allred is ready to fight for all Dallas workers,\u201d said Diana Ramirez, executive director of the North Texas Area Labor Federation. \u201cAs a union member, he has the integrity, the record, and the drive that we need in Washington. North Texas union members are proud to support him for Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n Allred was raised in Dallas by a single mom who taught school and worked nights to make ends meet. From his career as an NFL linebacker \u2014 where he became a member of the\u00a0National Football League Players Association (NFLPA)<\/a> \u2014 to civil rights attorney, to congressman,\u00a0 he\u2019s fought side-by-side with working people to deliver for the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWorking people keep this country running, and corporations keep rigging the system and taking more while workers get less. That ends as soon as I get to Washington,\u201d said Allred. \u201cI will fight for better wages, fair contracts, and the dignity every worker deserves, without taking a single dime of corporate PAC money \u2014 because I answer to working people, not corporations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Early voting for the primary runoff will be May 18-22, with Election Day on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. The list of all Texas AFL-CIO COPE\u00a02026 Primary Runoff endorsements can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n The Texas AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) is the state labor federation consisting of more than 250,000 affiliated union members and advocates for working people in Texas. Learn more at texasaflcio.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2013 Today, following the recommendation of the North Texas Area Labor Federation, the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-273024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}