AFL-CIO president says Democrats did not listen to low-income voters struggling to make ends meet

Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign failed to connect with low-income workers across the US because it resorted to “telling people versus listening”, according to a senior union leader.

Liz Shuler, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), said the Democrat’s bid for the White House did not resonate with working-class people who remain “very much economically insecure”.