What Graham Platner has said about Organized labor in the United States
1 quote · 1 episode · Jun 1, 2026
Graham Platner, Presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, has been quoted on Organized labor in the United States once in 1 episode of Up First from NPR, most recently on June 1, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Platner argues that re-empowering organized labor is key to taking back democracy from corporate and billionaire interests.
“re-empowering organized labor is going to be one of the keys to building the power necessary to really take back our democracy from corporate interests”
Up First from NPR: Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 2:13
Episodes
Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s NewsmakersUp First from NPR · Jun 1, 2026 · 48 min
Leila Fadel interviews Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner about his working-class politics, past controversies, masculinity, the Iran war, Pete Hegseth, and beating Susan Collins.
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